Olive-oil industry waste used for countless applications in chemical and food industries

Wednesday, October 19, 2016 - 05:31 in Physics & Chemistry

A team of researchers from the department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Granada (UGR) has successfully used some of the waste produced in the olive-oil industry to elaborate surface active agents, specifically biosurfactants and monoglycerids, which are molecules with countless applications in the chemical and food industries.

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