TY - JOUR
T1 - Valorization of wastewater from food industry
T2 - moving to a circular bioeconomy
AU - Costa, Carolina F. F. A.
AU - Amorim, Catarina L.
AU - Duque, Anouk F.
AU - Reis, Maria A. M.
AU - Castro, Paula M. L.
N1 - Funding Information:
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/3599-PPCDT/PTDC%2FBTA-BTA%2F31746%2F2017/PT#
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDP%2F04378%2F2020/PT#
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F04378%2F2020/PT#
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F50016%2F2020/PT#
This work was also supported by national funds from FCT in the scope of the project UIDP/04378/2020 and UIDB/04378/2020 of the Research Unit on Applied Molecular Biosciences - UCIBIO and the project LA/P/0140/2020 of the Associate Laboratory Institute for Health and Bioeconomy
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/3
Y1 - 2022/3
N2 - Wastewater from the food industry is increasingly recognized as a valuable source of energy and as a resource for new products and not as waste. The reutilization and valorization of wastewater contributes to combating water scarcity and to improve the energetic efficiency of treatment facilities. Moreover, it has the added benefit of reducing environmental impact and providing economically interesting added value products. This review discusses the most recent approaches for the valorization of food industry wastewaters of different origins (dairy, brewery, oil mill, fish, meat, among others) and the products obtained, from energetic resources such as biogas and biofuel to the recovery of biopolymers, pigments, phenolic compounds, and other added value products. A critical overview regarding the bottlenecks of large-scale implementation of resource recovery strategies, including up-scaling, quality and quantity of the effluent, legislation, and economic, environmental, and social issues related to the use of products derived from waste, is herein presented.
AB - Wastewater from the food industry is increasingly recognized as a valuable source of energy and as a resource for new products and not as waste. The reutilization and valorization of wastewater contributes to combating water scarcity and to improve the energetic efficiency of treatment facilities. Moreover, it has the added benefit of reducing environmental impact and providing economically interesting added value products. This review discusses the most recent approaches for the valorization of food industry wastewaters of different origins (dairy, brewery, oil mill, fish, meat, among others) and the products obtained, from energetic resources such as biogas and biofuel to the recovery of biopolymers, pigments, phenolic compounds, and other added value products. A critical overview regarding the bottlenecks of large-scale implementation of resource recovery strategies, including up-scaling, quality and quantity of the effluent, legislation, and economic, environmental, and social issues related to the use of products derived from waste, is herein presented.
KW - Added value products
KW - Circular economy
KW - Food industry
KW - Food wastewater
KW - Valorization
KW - Wastewater
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U2 - 10.1007/s11157-021-09600-1
DO - 10.1007/s11157-021-09600-1
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85120451300
SN - 1569-1705
VL - 21
SP - 269
EP - 295
JO - Reviews in Environmental Science and Biotechnology
JF - Reviews in Environmental Science and Biotechnology
IS - 1
ER -