Olive oil history, production and by-product management

Reviews in Environmental Science and Biotechnology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-26

  Kapellakis, Iosif Emmanouil ^a   Tsagarakis, Konstantinos P ^b   Crowther, John C ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS   (Greece)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conventional treatment processes; Legal framework; Natural treatment; Olive mill history; Olive mill wastewater history; Olive oil production

Indexed keywords

EID: 37749050562     PISSN: 15691705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11157-007-9120-9     Document Type: Review

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