The thriving agro-industry sector accounts for an essential part of the global gross domestic product, as need food and feed production is rising. However, industrial processing agricultural products requires use water at all stages, which consequently leads to vast amounts effluents with diverse characteristics, contain a significantly elevated organic content. This fact reinforces action cont...

Bioethanol and biobutanol hold great promise as alternative biofuels, especially for transport sector, because they can be produced from lignocellulosic agro-industrial residues. From techno-economic point of view, the bioprocess for biofuels production should involve minimal processing steps. Consolidated bioprocessing (CBP), which combines various processing steps such as pretreatment, hydrol...

A variety of multidimensional anthropogenic activities, especially of industrial level, are contaminating our aquatic and terrestrial environments with a variety of metallic and non-metallic pollutants. The metallic and non-metallic pollutants addressed specifically in this review are heavy metals and various compound forms of sulfates, respectively. Direct and indirect deleterious effects of t...

The article deals with the problem of eliminating inappropriate level development information technologies and their use in solving urgent problems informatization food supply system. analyzes main systems agro-industrial complex aspect managing system, offers recommendations for existing gap sector.

There is a great worldwide demand for citric acid consumption due to its low toxicity when compared with other acidulants used mainly in the pharmaceutical and food industries. Other applications of citric acid can be found in detergents and cleaning products, cosmetics and toiletries, and other. Global production has now reached 1.4 million tonnes and there is annual growth of 3.5–4.0 % in dem...

The water–energy–food (WEF) nexus approach is gaining attention due to the challenge of better managing natural elements. Agro-industrial companies, given their environmental impacts, need take sustainability into proper account. However, this sector lacks novel tools needed integrate current methodologies with additional quality frameworks, such as business excellence models (BEMs). Therefore,...