Reclaiming of Food Wastes by Sub-critical Water Technology.

Application of sub-critical water technology for recovery of heavy metal ions from the wastes of Japanese scallop Patinopecten yessoensis.

Sub-critical water (sub-CW) technology was used as a new technology with environmental and financial benefits for the recovery of harmful heavy metal ions Cd (II), Zn (II), Cu (II), Fe (II), Mn (II) and Ni (II) in the waste of Japanese scallop Patinopecten yessoensis. The metals are responsible for environmental problems owing to the large amount of the waste. This study proposes a new method u...

Conversion of Food Wastes and by-Products

Food and beverage production is an industry with the main raw materials generally obtained from plant and animal sources and the industry has always aimed to convert these raw materials to a value added products. During this conversion processes, voluminous and serious amounts of food wastes and by-products are generated. Unfortunately, one-third of the global food production is wasted worldwid...

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Application of Sub-Critical Water Extraction in Pharmaceutical Industry

Sub-critical water extraction is a brand-new separation technology. This paper mainly discussed the principle, advantages of sub-critical water extraction, and its applications ranging from the medicinal plants traditionally used in Europe and Asia to produce pharmaceutical extracts (such as volatile oil, tannins, flavonoids, anthraquinone, lactone, etc.). Meanwhile, the prospect of sub-critica...

Continuous Flow Hydrolysis of Sunflower Oil Using Sub-critical Water

The use of sub-critical water has recently been proven to be a successful medium for conducting hydrolysis reactions without employing acid or alkali catalysts. This work presents the usage of sub-critical water as both solvent and reactant for the continuous flow hydrolysis of sunflower oil (triglyceride) in a tubular reactor. The hydrolysis products of sunflower oil are fatty acids and glycer...