Advanced Technologies in Wastewater Treatment

Angelo Basile, a Chemical Engineer with a Ph.D. in Technical Physics, was a senior Researcher at the ITM-CNR as a responsible for the research related to both ultra-pure hydrogen production and CO2 capture using Pd-based Membrane Reactors. He is a reviewer for 165 int. journals, an editor/author of more than 50 scientific books and 140 chapters on international books on membrane science and technology; with various patens (7 Italian, 2 European, and 1 worldwide). He is a referee of 1more than 150 international scientific journals and a Member of the Editorial Board of more than 20 of them. Basile is also an associate editor of the: Int. J. Hydrogen Energy; Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Eng.; journal Frontiers in Membrane Science and Technology; and co-Editor-in-chief of the Int. J. Membrane Science & Technol. Alfredo Cassano, a Biologist, is senior Researcher at ITM-CNR since 2000. He has a long experience in the field of membrane science and technology with research expertise including pressure-driven membrane processes, membrane contactors and integrated membrane operations mainly applied to wastewater treatments and agro-food productions. Cassano also prepared 4 special issues on membrane science and technology for 3 international journals (Membranes, Foods and Journal of Membrane Science and Research). He is involved as scientific responsible or main investigator in different national projects with both Italian Ministry of Education, University & Research and private companies and international projects funded by EU. He has been tutoring of 28 Thesis for master and Ph.D. students at ITM-CNR. Carmela Conidi, Master Degree in Pharmacy at the University of Calabria (Italy) and PhD degree in methodologies for the development of molecules of pharmacological interest at the same university. She performed her post-doctoral activity as visiting researcher at the “Instituto Universitario de Ingenieria de Alimentos para el Desarrollo ", University Polytechnic of Valencia (November 2011-May 2012; November 2012 -May 2013). Nowadays, she is researcher at the Institute on Membrane Technology of the Italian National Research Council (CNR-ITM). Since 2005, her research activities focus on membrane science and technology in the field of pressure-driven membrane operations, membrane contactors and sustainable integrated membrane systems mainly applied to the clarification and concentration of fruit juices, treatment of industrial wastewaters, water purification and in the recovery of high added value compounds from agro-food products and by-products. C.C. is author or co-author of more than 50 scientific contributions as international peer reviewed articles in ISI journals (h-index =22, Scopus database), 14 peer reviewed book chapters, and several contributions at National and International Conferences. C.C. is Reviewer of different international ISI journals (Journal of Food Engineering, Innovative Food Science and Emerging Technologies, Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Membrane Science, Food and BioProducts Processing, etc.), co-editor of special Issue as well as Member of the Organizing of International Conferences and she made several presentations (also as invited and keynote lecture) in National and International Conferences.

Section I: Food industry wastewaters: Opportunity, management and high added value compounds recovery 1. Wastewaters from agro-food industry: An overview 2. Featured technologies in food processing wastewater treatment 3. High added-value compounds from agro-food industry wastewaters 4. New functional ingredients for industrial applications from food wastewaters 5. Advances in food industry wastewaters towards a sustainable bioeconomy

Section II: Innovative technologies for agro-food industry wastewaters treatment 6. High-rate anaerobic processes for agro-food wastewaters treatment: recent trends and advancements or Aerobic/anaerobic processes for agro-food wastewaters treatment 7. Membrane-based operations for food processing wastewaters treatment: Biologically active compounds recovery and water reuse 8. Food wastewaters treatments by advanced biological processes 9. A valorisation approach of food industry wastewaters using microwave-assisted extraction technology (MAE) 10. Supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) applied to food wastewaters processing 11. Advances in ultrasound assisted extraction of biophenols (antioxidant compounds) from agro-food wastewaters 12. Enzyme assisted extraction (EAE) of agro-food wastewaters: Processing and application

Section III: Case studies 13. Wastewaters form fruit juices and vegetable processing: valorisation and development of new added value-products 14. Integrated advanced technologies for olive mill wastewaters treatment: A biorefinery approach 15. Advanced strategies for dairy wastewater treatment: A perspective 16. Winery wastewaters treatment for water reuse purpose and bio-molecules recovery