Bevel-helical gear Reduction Boxes B3 G l l kg kg Solid shaft without parallel key HCH B3-SH-23-D

Flender/Flender Gear Units/Bevel-helical gear Reduction Boxes B3

oduction of fruits and vegetables is placed at 4 and 5 million tonnes, respectively (. Among the fruits and vegetables, citrus, apple, pineapple, grape,tomato, and potato are processed in substantial quantities. The waste generated in the fruit and vegetable processing industries includes both solids and liquids. Proper management of the waste is both regulatory requirement as well as an economic necessity. Treatment and reuse of liquid wastewater from processingindustries is highly developed area and is beyond the scope of the present review. The fruit and vegetable processing industries generate 1%6% of the raw materi- als as solid waste. The composition of these wastes suggests enormous potential for pro-ducing value-added products. The typical example is the citrus processing industry, which produces number of value-added by-products from waste, some of them even more valuable than the main product, viz., citrus juice concentrates. In fact, the waste from oneprocessing plant could become the raw material of another plant, and utilization of wasterather than disposal should be the goal of the industry. Bioremediation of fruit and vegetable processing wastes to produce value-added products has also opened up enormous product opportunities. The future of the food pro-cessing industry and in particular the fruit and vegetable processing industry lies in achiev- ing zero-waste processing systems. 8 Eipeson and Ramteke Table 1 Major Apple Producing Countries Production ( Country (1 MT) China 1,4 United States 4,6 Iran 1,9France 1,9India 1,2Chile 9World 5,0 Source : From Ref. 1. 2 BY-PRODUCTS FROM FRUIT PROCESSING WASTE 2.1 Apple Apple ( Mallus domestica Borkh ) is deciduous fruit grown mostly in temperate regions in the world. The total world production of apples is estimated at 5 million tonnes; China,the United States, and France are the leading producers (Table . Apple pomace or apple press cake is the major waste of the apple processing indus- try, alth