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Treatment of winery wastewater by physicochemical, biological and advanced processes: a review

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posted on 2015-10-16, 13:16 authored by L.A. Ioannou, Gianluca Li-Puma, D. Fatta-Kassinos
Winery wastewater is a major waste stream resulting from numerous cleaning operations that occur during the production stages of wine. The resulting effluent contains various organic and inorganic contaminants and its environmental impact is notable, mainly due to its high organic/inorganic load, the large volumes produced and its seasonal variability. Several processes for the treatment of winery wastewater are currently available, but the development of alternative treatment methods is necessary in order to (i) maximize the efficiency and flexibility of the treatment process to meet the discharge requirements for winery effluents, and (ii) decrease both the environmental footprint, as well as the investment/operational costs of the process. This review, presents the state-of-the-art of the processes currently applied and/or tested for the treatment of winery wastewater, which were divided into five categories: i.e., physicochemical, biological, membrane filtration and separation, advanced oxidation processes, and combined biological and advanced oxidation processes. The advantages and disadvantages, as well as the main parameters/factors affecting the efficiency of winery wastewater treatment are discussed. Both bench- and pilot/industrial-scale processes have been considered for this review.

Funding

This study was performed, with the contribution of the LIFE financial instrument of the European Union, as part of the LIFE project “Advanced systems for the enhancement of the environmental performance of WINEries in Cyprus” WINEC LIFE08ENV/CY/000455,

History

School

  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Chemical Engineering

Published in

JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Volume

286

Pages

343 - 368 (26)

Citation

IOANNOU, L.A., LI PUMA, G. and FATTA-KASSINOS, D., 2015. Treatment of winery wastewater by physicochemical, biological and advanced processes: a review. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 286, pp. 343-368.

Publisher

© Elsevier

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2015

Notes

This paper is in closed access until 30th Dec 2015.

ISSN

0304-3894

Language

  • en