CONTENTS
1. WASTE RELATED TO THE FOOD INDUSTRY:
A CHALLENGE IN MATERIAL LOOPS 1
Winfried Russ and Markus Schnappinger
2. INTRODUCTION TO FOOD WASTE TREAMENT:
THE 14001 STANDARDS 15
Vassilis Gekas and Maria Nikolopoulou
3. BASIC UNIT OPERATIONS IN WASTEWATER
TREATMENT 31
Dionissios Mantzavinos
4. ANAEROBIC DIGESTION OF ORGANIC RESIDUES AND WASTES 53
Gunther Pesta
5. FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS
OF ANAEROBIC DIGESTION FOR SUSTAINABLE
TREATMENT OF FOOD INDUSTRY WASTEWATER 73
Vasileios I. Diamantis, Eleni Vaiopoulou, and Alexandros Aivasidis
6. FERMENTATION OF DISTILLER’S WASH IN A BIOGAS PLANT 99
Anselm Gleixner
7. BREWERY AND WINERY WASTEWATER TREATMENT:
SOME FOCAL POINTS OF DESIGN AND OPERATION 109
Anto´nio G. Brito, Joa˜o Peixoto, Jose´ M. Oliveira, Jose´ A. Oliveira,
Cristina Costa, Regina Nogueira, and Ana Rodrigues
8. OLIVE MILL WASTEWATER TREATMENT 133
Evagelia Tsagaraki, Harris N. Lazarides, and Konstantinos B. Petrotos
9. ANAEROBIC DEGRADATION OF ANIMAL BY-PRODUCTS 159
Roland Kirchmayr, Christoph Resch, Martin Mayer, Stephan Prechtl,
Martin Faulstich, Rudolf Braun, and Johann Wimmer
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10. UTILIZATION OF WHEY 193
Gunther Pesta, Roland Meyer-Pittroff, and Winfried Russ
11. UTILIZATION OF PLANT BY-PRODUCTS
FOR THE RECOVERY OF PROTEINS, DIETARY FIBERS,
ANTIOXIDANTS, AND COLORANTS 209
Vasso Oreopoulou and Constantina Tzia
12. UTILIZATION OF BY-PRODUCTS IN THE FISH INDUSTRY 233
Kristberg Kristbergsson and Sigurjon Arason
13. EXAMPLES OF SPECIAL CASE STUDIES IN DIFFERENT
BRANCHES 259
Winfried Russ
14. INCINERATION OF SOLID FOOD WASTE:
A PROJECT ABOUT SPENT GRAIN 273
Gerald Zanker, Werner Kepplinger, and Christian Pecher
15. COMPOSTING OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL WASTES 283
Stefan Shilev, Mladen Naydenov, Ventsislava Vancheva,
and Anna Aladjadjiyan
INDEX 303