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Typically, the various agro-food by-products of the food industry are treated by standard membrane-based technologies, such as microfiltration (MF), ultrafiltration (UF) and nanofiltration (NF). Recently, however, the separation, fractionation and concentration of high-added-value compounds, such as phenolic compounds from agro-food waste, can be performed by using these technologies which are capable to reach such recovery task. Indeed, UF membranes are able to separate, recover and concentrate macromolecules of relative high molecular weight from aqueous systems, while NF membranes are able to fractionate, recover and concentrate selectively micromolecules of low molecular weight. The goal of this chapter is to provide a critical overview of the main agro-food by-products processed by membrane technologies for the recovery of phenolic compounds, their derivatives of different molecular weight and some other compounds. An outlook is given concerning to separation processes, molecule properties, membrane characteristics and other interesting phenomena that occur during their recovery. Finally, an economic framework of the membrane-based technologies in agro-food by-product fraction

Author

Roberto Castro-Muñoz

Published

2019

Language

EN