Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, there has been increasing interest in the implementation of concepts such as circular economy and sustainability in industrial processes.

Membrane technology is a form of separation technology that plays an important role in the recovery of valuable compounds due to its versatility and soft operating conditions.

In particular, this Special Issue is focused on the recovery of bioactive compounds from industrial processes via membrane technology. Bioactive compounds are substances such as antioxidants, proteins, sugars, nucleotides, natural colorants, etc., that have physiological benefits on human health beyond classical nutritional properties. Bioactive compounds can be found and recovered from intermediate and final wastewaters from industrial processes including but not limited to food, biotechnological, pharmaceutical, and environmental industries.

For this Special Issue, we invite you to submit original articles that describe your latest research findings or review papers in the field.

We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions.

Prof. Dr. Esperanza María Garcia-Castello
Prof. Dr. Antonio D. Rodriguez-Lopez
Guest Editors

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• membrane technology
• biocompounds
• industry wastewater
• by-product
• biorefinery
• circular economy
• sustainability
• valorization