Utilization of Olive Oil Processing Waste Composts in Organic Tomato Seedling Production

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Advantages and Limitations of Using FTIR Spectroscopy for Assessing the Maturity of Sewage Sludge and Olive Oil Waste Co-composts

Composts prepared using different solid and liquid organic wastes from various sources can be used as growing media when these materials present adequate proprieties for plant development. The stability and maturity are among the main characteristics of composts. The purpose of this study is to recommend specific bands of the IR spectrum recorded on different composts to enable qualitative and ...

S-Metolachlor sorption in soils amended with olive oil residues: effect of organic waste transformation

Herbicides are the main type of pesticides causing water contamination. The chloroacetanilide herbicide Smetolachlor is frequently detected in ground and surface waters, and represents a potential source of water pollution. The addition of organic residues to soils to reduce losses of organic pollutants constitutes sometimes an efficient method to control contamination. One of the recent techno...

An Efficient Utilization of Waste Date Pit Oil for Ethyl Ester Production

As a green material, used date pits oil is increasingly utilized as inexpensive feedstock for ethyl ester (biodiesel) production. Waste date pits as a raw material are one of the highly produced agricultural wastes in Iran. This study investigated the effect of several procedure parameters including the ethanol/oil molar ratio, reaction temperature and amount of catalysts on the yield of the pr...

Solid olive waste in environmental cleanup: oil recovery and carbon production for water purification.

A potentially-economic three-fold strategy, to use solid olive wastes in water purification, is presented. Firstly, oil remaining in solid waste (higher than 5% of waste) was recovered by the Soxhlet extraction technique, which can be useful for the soap industry. Secondly, the remaining solid was processed to yield relatively high-surface area active carbon (AC). Thirdly, the resulting carbon ...