Objective The project develops new technologies for the agricultural re-use of polluted Olive Mill Wastewaters (OMW). These constitute a big environmental problem for all Mediterranean Countries, in terms of pollution and of water consumption. The latter can be particularly relevant, due to the milling techniques adopted by the South-Bank olive-oil producers. New, low cost technologies are developed for minimizing the phenol content of OMW via widely available natural catalysts(olive husk, soil components, white rot fungi). The validation of the results will be afforded by fertirrigation tests. New technologies are developed for the extraction of high added-value compounds from OMW, of potential interest as antioxidant food-additives. All the relevant biological and analytical protocols for the evaluation of the antioxidant activity will be implemented, as well. All technologies will be developed up to pilot scale. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processesnatural sciencesbiological sciencesmicrobiologymycologynatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollutionnatural scienceschemical sciencescatalysis Programme(s) FP5-INCO 2 - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Confirming the international role of Community research,1998-2002" Topic(s) Data not available Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II Address Via universita 100 80055 Portici Italy See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (3) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CENTRE DE BIOTECHNOLOGIE DE SFAX - SECRETARIAT D'ETAT A LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE ET A LA TECHNOLOGIE Tunisia EU contribution € 0,00 Address Route de soukkra km4 3038 Sfax See on map UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA Spain EU contribution € 0,00 Address S/n,campus universitario de cartuja, s/n 18071 Granada See on map UNIVERSITE CADI AYYAD Morocco EU contribution € 0,00 Address 40001 Marrakech See on map
