Cavitation as a zero-waste circular economy process to convert citrus processing waste into biopolymers in high demand

Rosaria Ciriminna; Giuseppe Angellotti; Giovanna Li Petri; Francesco Meneguzzo; Cristina Riccucci; Gabriella Di Carlo; Mario Pagliaro

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Rosaria Ciriminna, Giuseppe Angellotti, Giovanna Li Petri, Francesco Meneguzzo, Cristina Riccucci, Gabriella Di Carlo, Mario Pagliaro. Cavitation as a zero-waste circular economy process to convert citrus processing waste into biopolymers in high demand[J]. Journal of Bioresources and Bioproducts, 2024, 9(4): 486-494. doi: 10.1016/j.jobab.2024.09.002

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Rosaria Ciriminna, Giuseppe Angellotti, Giovanna Li Petri, Francesco Meneguzzo, Cristina Riccucci, Gabriella Di Carlo, Mario Pagliaro. Cavitation as a zero-waste circular economy process to convert citrus processing waste into biopolymers in high demand[J]. Journal of Bioresources and Bioproducts, 2024, 9(4): 486-494. doi: 10.1016/j.jobab.2024.09.002

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Rosaria Ciriminna, Giuseppe Angellotti, Giovanna Li Petri, Francesco Meneguzzo, Cristina Riccucci, Gabriella Di Carlo, Mario Pagliaro. Cavitation as a zero-waste circular economy process to convert citrus processing waste into biopolymers in high demand[J]. Journal of Bioresources and Bioproducts, 2024, 9(4): 486-494. doi: 10.1016/j.jobab.2024.09.002

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Cavitation as a zero-waste circular economy process to convert citrus processing waste into biopolymers in high demand

doi: 10.1016/j.jobab.2024.09.002

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Istituto per lo Studio dei Materiali Nanostrutturati, CNR, via U. La Malfa 153, Palermo, 90146, Italy
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Istituto per la Bioeconomia, CNR, via Madonna del Piano 10, Sesto Fiorentino, FI, 50019, Italy
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Istituto per lo Studio dei Materiali Nanostrutturati, CNR, via Salaria km 29.3, Monterotondo, RM, 00015, Italy

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Corresponding author: E-mail address: rosaria.ciriminna@cnr.it (R. Ciriminna); E-mail address: mario.pagliaro@cnr.it (M. Pagliaro)
Available Online: 2024-09-16
Publish Date: 2024-11-01

Abstract

Abstract

Cavitation in water only, no matter whether hydrodynamic or acoustic, is a zero-waste circular economy process to convert industrial citrus processing waste into high-performance polysaccharides in high demand in a single-step at room temperature and ambient pressure using a modest amount of electricity as the only energy input. Following previous reports in which we used hydrodynamic cavitation, we now use an industrial acoustic sonicator to demonstrate the general viability of cavitation to convert biowaste residue of the industrial squeezing of pigmented sweet orange (Citrus sinensis) into highly bioactive "IntegroPectin" pectin and micronized cellulose "CytroCell". From biomedicine through advanced composite membranes, said biomaterials hold great applicative potential. We conclude discussing the economic and technical feasibility of industrial implementation of the "CytroCav" process.
- Cavitation,
- CytoCav,
- CytroCell,
- IntegroPectin,
- Green extraction

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Declaration of competing interest
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
CRediT authorship contribution statement
Rosaria Ciriminna: Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing, Resources, Methodology. Giuseppe Angellotti: Formal analysis, Investigation, Software. Giovanna Li Petri: Formal analysis, Investigation, Software. Francesco Meneguzzo: Conceptualization, Resources, Methodology. Cristina Riccucci: Formal analysis, Investigation, Software. Gabriella Di Carlo: Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology. Mario Pagliaro: Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Methodology, Supervision.

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