In the last year of the project, Acesur and the entities that make up the PHENOILS project consortium ( CSIC- Instituto de la Grasa-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, German Technological Center Fraunhofer, University of Turin and the Portuguese company Energy Pulse Systems) will test, on an industrial scale, the promising innovative technologies applied for the treatment of olive paste. All this, as a previous step to the beating operation in the extra virgin olive oil extraction process.
It is planned to carry out the extractive tests with the new technologies, with varieties of native olives from the locations selected for study (RIS zones), just as it has been done in the previous years of the project.
In this way, PHENOILS, in addition to working on the development of new, more sustainable and profitable extraction technologies, is getting even closer to the goal of obtaining healthier extra virgin olive oils, if possible, with a high content of polyphenols. With unbeatable biological properties for health when the product is regularly consumed, they provide preventive effects in some relevant diseases such as diabetes, obesity or cardiovascular diseases, scientifically proven through a multitude of trials and scientific studies present in the bibliography.
Both the results obtained, as well as the improvements expected by these new technologies, will continue to be disseminated in various university and technological training centers, thus bringing scientific knowledge in this matter closer to producers, operators and students of the international olive sector in RIS countries, such as Italy, Spain, Greece. In addition, as a new contribution in this year, it is intended to develop these dissemination actions also in Croatia.
PHENOILS promotes advancing and transferring the extractive innovations developed to the olive sector, consolidating a technological leap in the sector in terms of quality and economic profitability of the EVOO production processes.
