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Current Role of Membrane Technology: From the Treatment of Agro-Industrial by-Products up to the Valorization of Valuable Compounds

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New tendencies respect to economic development model in the process of agro-industrial materials are oriented to circular economy in which the treatment and reuse of wastes and by-product play a crucial role. Over the last decades, different products from agro-food industries have been processed by membrane technologies (micro, ultra and nano-filtration). Today, these pressure-driven membrane processes have been subjected to various applications, like food wastes, bioproduct, and by-product processing. However, the most challenging issue concerns about the recovery of high-added value components from their by-products. The aim of this work is to provide a wide understanding of the current framework for membrane technology in this field. Thereby, the utilization of aqueous wastes from industries is highlighted; it denotes the real advantages that these methodologies offer in terms of high-added value solute recovery. Finally, this review discusses in detail the following aspects: framework of integrated membrane systems in wastewater fractionation, the economic framework as the limitation of membrane technology, and the environmental benefits of membrane technology (water reclamation).

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Abbreviations

MF:

Microfiltration

UF:

Ultrafiltration

NF:

Nanofiltration

TMP:

Transmembrane pressure

MWCO:

Molecular weight cut-off

R & D:

Research and development

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R. Castro-Muñoz acknowledges the European Commission—Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) for his PhD scholarship under the program: Erasmus Mundus Doctorate in Membrane Engineering—EUDIME (FPA No 2011-0014, Edition V, http://eudime.unical.it). P.C. Denis expresses his gratitude to EACEA as well for his Erasmus Mundus Master Scholarship under the program: Erasmus Mundus International Master of Science in Environmental Technology and Engineering—IMETE (Course N0 2011-0172). This work was partially supported by the Operational Program Prague—Competitiveness (CZ.2.16/3.1.00/24501), “National Program of Sustainability“(NPU I LO1613) MSMT-43760/2015, Czech Science Foundation (Grant GACR No. 15-06479S) and financial support from specific university research (IGA 2017, MSMT No 20-SVV/2017).

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Castro-Muñoz, R., Barragán-Huerta, B.E., Fíla, V. et al. Current Role of Membrane Technology: From the Treatment of Agro-Industrial by-Products up to the Valorization of Valuable Compounds. Waste Biomass Valor 9, 513–529 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12649-017-0003-1

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