Geraldes, V.Minhalma, M.de Pinho, M. N.Anil, A.Ozgunay, H.Bitlisli, B. O.Sari, O.2019-10-272019-10-2720091230-14851230-1485https://hdl.handle.net/11454/41791Cork processing wastewater is a very complex mixture of vegetal extracts and has, among other natural compounds, a very high content of phenolic/tannic colloidal matter that is responsible for severe environmental problems. In the present work, the concentration of this wastewater by nanofiltration was investigated with the aim of producing a cork tannin concentrate to be utilized in tanning. Permeation results showed that the permeate fluxes are controlled by both osmotic pressure and fouling/gel layer phenomena, leading to a rapid decrease of permeate fluxes with the concentration factor. The rejection coefficients to organic matter were higher than 95%, indicating that nanofiltration has a very good ability to concentrate the tannins and produce a permeate stream depleted from organic matter. The cork tannin concentrate obtained by nanofiltration and evaporation had total solids concentration of 34.8 g/l. The skins tanned by this concentrate were effectively converted to leather with a shrinking temperature of 7 degrees C.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessnanofiltrationcork wastewatertannintanningleatherArticle183353357WOS:000267245100006Q4