Zeolite in olive mill waste

If there is one major problem that zeolite can definitively solve through its application, it is the issue of goat manure for olive growers. Those unfamiliar with the difficulty of this issue, due to the odour and toxicity involved, cannot fully appreciate the pressures placed on olive oil producers when dealing with olive pomace. Whereas,…

In olive oil production in Crete, at the olive mill level, we also produce olive mill wastewater (“katsigaros”). The problem is that olive mill wastewater significantly affects soil properties, such as pH and electrical conductivity. Thus, rocks containing illite exhibit significant adsorption capacity in response to the phenols present in the olive mill waste. More…