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Alonso-Vazquez, PabloCorresponding AuthorSanchez-Arevalo, Carmen MAuthorCuartas-Uribe, BeatrizAuthorVincent-Vela, M CintaAuthorAlvarez-Blanco, SilviaAuthor

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February 3, 2025
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Concentration of phenolic compounds from an orange peel waste extract using a combination of ultrafiltration and forward osmosis☆

Publicated to: SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY. 360 131228- - 2025-07-08 360(), DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2024.131228

Authors:

Alonso-Vázquez, P; Isola, A; Sánchez-Arévalo, CM; Cuartas-Uribe, B; Vincent-Vela, MC; Alvarez-Blanco, S
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Affiliations

Politecn Milan, Dept Chem Mat & Chem Engn Giulio Natta, Milan, Italy - Author
Univ Politecn Valencia, Res Inst Ind Radiophys & Environm Safety ISIRYM, Camino Vera S-N, Valencia 46022, Spain - Author

Abstract

Orange juice production industry generates tons of solid waste annually, losing the opportunity of recovering high added value bioactive compounds, such as polyphenols. Solid-liquid extraction was previously studied for extracting the phenolic compounds from the solid waste to a liquid stream. In this work, an integrated membrane process has been investigated for the purification and concentration of phenolic compounds from the orange extract. First, a pretreatment was performed using ultrafiltration membranes to purify the extract and to minimize membrane fouling in the following concentration step, due to the large pectin content of the orange extract. After studying several ultrafiltration membranes, the best results were obtained using the UP010 membrane (10 kDa), separating a significant amount of pectins (50 %). Flavonoids experienced low rejection values, being preferentially recovered in the permeate. The ultrafiltration permeate was then concentrated with forward osmosis using 58 g & sdot;L-1 NaCl as draw solution. Polyphenols were concentrated 2.03 times. Moreover, an insignificant amount of phenolic compounds, sugars and pectins passed through the membrane to the draw solution. Globally, the polyphenols were concentrated achieving a concentration factor of 1.47 in the whole integrated membrane process.
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Keywords

AntioxidantClarificationForward osmosiJuicMembraneMembrane screeningOilOperating-conditionsOptimizationOrange peel wastePolyphenols recoveryPress liquorRecoveryUltrafiltrationWater

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal SEPARATION AND PURIFICATION TECHNOLOGY due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2025, it was in position 16/176, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Engineering, Chemical. Notably, the journal is positioned above the 90th percentile.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2026-04-02:

  • WoS: 6
  • Scopus: 6
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-02:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 32.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 29 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 1.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 1 (Altmetric).
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Italy.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Alonso Vázquez, Pablo) and Last Author (Alvarez Blanco, Silvia).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Alonso Vázquez, Pablo.

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Awards linked to the item

The authors thank the Regional Government of Valencia for the financial support (Reference of the project: CIAICO/2021/333) , and Agriconsa S.A. for providing the orange waste samples.
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