The expansion of the palm tree fruit crops as well as of the processing industries (manufacture of syrup, honey, non-alcoholic beverages, flours, confectionery products, fruit paste, etc.) is generating growing quantities of wastes in different forms. In fact, the palm tree wastes can be classified into many categories: fruit falls (discarded fruits), stones, shells, flower stalks, panicles, leaves, etc. The chemical compositions of these by-products have shown that, individually, they are highly different, these properties as well as many other characteristics encourage manufacturers to gain added values from these materials and to recover them in various applications, mainly in the environmental field (wastewater treatment, gas purification, climate change mitigation, agriculture, livestock feed, etc.) as well as for energy purposes (biogas, bio-oil, bioethanol, etc.).

Palm Trees and Fruits Residues: Recent Advances for Integrated and Sustainable Management aims to place the wastes of palm trees and the fruit residues in the international context of sustainable development and in a more general context of technical progress concerning the best possible rationalization of these lignocellulosic materials. Each sustainable application is detailed in a specific chapter based on the sector category; such structure helps reader from a specific field to identify easily the specific application. Furthermore, successful case study of a palm tree fruit processing by-products valorization are presented.

Written by an international team of contributors, this title aims professionals and enterprises that aspire to develop real, high scale industrial applications for the palm tree and fruit residues valorization.