Innovations and New Processes in the Olive Oil Industry

<p><span style=color: rgba(23 43 77 1)>The olive oil industry one of the largest industries in the Mediterranean basin and in other countries around the world is fundamentally composed of olive groves olive oil mills pomace oil extraction plants and oil refineries. Additionally there are other types of closely related industries such as those producing table olives and margarine and industries based on physicochemical transformation to obtain high-value-added products for the pharmaceutical cosmetic nutritional and dietary sectors.Innovative processes and new technologies have been implemented in olive oil mills oil refineries and transformation industries in the last decade to improve the olive oil extraction and its quality as well as to minimise and valorise the generated wastes. In this sense biofuels (bioethanol biodiesel biogas synthetic gas etc.) and high-value-added products (tyrosol hydroxytyrosol squalene oleuropein tocopherols and others) can be obtained from byproducts and residues from the olive oil and pomace oil extraction processes.This Special Issue Innovations and New Processes in the Olive Oil Industry brings together 11 high-quality research studies addressing challenges faced in the olive oil industry and related industries along with comprehensive overviews and in-depth technical research papers addressing recent progress in olive oil and table olive production and the management of different olive oil industry wastes.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>