Olive and Olive Oil Mill Effluents Technology

Code: ERU13896M

3 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours

Scientific Area: Rural Engineering

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Saúde de qualidade - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Água potável e saneamento - Garantir disponibilidade e manejo sustentável da água e saneamento para todos.

Produção e consumo sustentáveis - Assegurar padrões de produção e de consumo sustentáveis.

Proteger a vida marinha - Conservação e uso sustentável dos oceanos, dos mares, e dos recursos marinhos para o desenvolvimento sustentável.

Proteger a vida terrestre - Proteger, recuperar e promover o uso sustentável dos ecossistemas terrestres, gerir de forma sustentável as florestas, combater a desertificação, deter e reverter a degradação da Terra e deter a perda da biodiversidade.

Learning Goals

This course will provide to the student solid preparation in matters related to waste and effluent technology, particularly those directly linked to the olive oil sector, taking into account both the legislation in force and the aspects most directly related to the systems of operation, namely those related to environmental protection and the valorization of effluents inside these produced systems, in a circular economy perspective.
At the end of the course, students are expected to have skills that allow them to analyze, design and intervene in decision-making and projects related to the management of effluents in the olive and oil sector.

1. Introduction to waste management in the agrifood sector. Nomenclature. Regulation.
2. The olive oil row. Olive grove, mill and canning industry.
3. Notions of Circular Economy. Circular Alentejo Project
4. Review of processes for obtaining olive oil
5. Residues from mills.
6. Biochemistry of the degradation of mill residues.
7. Effluent treatment systems and storage structures.
8. Valorization of the mill's effluents

Teaching Methods

Teaching: Theoretical-practical classes in the classroom and in the field. Provision of contents in Moodle, which will allow deepening the content presented in classes. The students' work will be guided by specific objectives to be achieved in different syllabus.
Evaluation: At the end of the semester, the students will develop a written work integrating the acquired knowledge, which will be presented and discussed in the last class. This is the only evaluation element fo the CU, the grade will date on a scale from 0 to 20 values and will approve students who get a rating equal to or greater than 9.5 values.