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Determination of pectin content in orange peels by near infrared hyperspectral imaging
(Elsevier, 2020)
Pectin has several purposes in the food and pharmaceutical industry making its quantification important for further extraction. Current techniques for pectin quantification require its extraction using chemicals and ...
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Identification of Fungi in the Debitterizing Water of Apricot Kernels and Their Preliminary Evaluation on Degrading Amygdalin
(MDPI, 2020)
Debitterizing water contains a great amount of amygdalin, a potential toxic compound, so it is mandatory the degradation of amygdalin to reduce the water’s toxicity and environmental pollution. In this paper, the suspended ...
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Energetic Valorisation of Olive Biomass: Olive-Tree Pruning, Olive Stones and Pomaces
(MDPI, 2020-04)
Olive oil industry is one of the most important industries in the world. Currently, the land devoted to olive-tree cultivation around the world is ca. 11 106 ha, which produces more than 20 106 t olives per year. ...
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Environmental Assessment of Olive Mill Solid Waste Valorization via Anaerobic Digestion Versus Olive Pomace Oil Extraction
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2020)
Anaerobic digestion is a promising alternative to valorize agrifood wastes, which is gaining interest under an environmental sustainability overview. The present research aimed to compare anaerobic digestion with olive ...
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Hyperspectral Imaging Coupled with Multivariate Analysis and Image Processing for Detection and Visualisation of Colour in Cooked Sausages Stuffed in Different Modified Casings
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2020)
A hyperspectral imaging system was for the first time exploited to estimate the core colour of sausages stuffed in natural hog casings or in two hog casings treated with solutions containing surfactants and lactic acid in ...
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Metal Accumulation by Jatropha curcas L. Adult Plants Grown on Heavy Metal-Contaminated Soil
(MDPI, 2020)
Jatropha curcas has the ability to phytoextract high amounts of heavy metals during its first months just after seeding. Notwithstanding, there is scarce information about metal uptake by adult J. curcas plants. To shed ...
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Acid and enzymatic fractionation of olive stones for ethanol production using Pachysolen tannophilus
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2020)
Olive stones are an abundant lignocellulose material in the countries of the Mediterranean basin that could be transformed to bioethanol by biochemical pathways. In this work, olive stones were subjected to fractionation ...
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Identification of Copper in Stems and Roots of Jatropha curcas L. by Hyperspectral Imaging
(MDPI, 2020-07)
The in situ determination of metals in plants used for phytoremediation is still a challenge that must be overcome to control the plant stress over time due to metals uptake as well as to quantify the concentration of these ...