ENVIRONMENTAL PERFOMANCE OF THE WINE INDUSTRY. OPPORTUNITIES FOR UPTAKE CLEANER PRODUCTION

RODRIGUEZ R., PALACIOS C. UDAQUIOLA

Portugal

Conferencia; 10th International Chemical and Biological Engineering Conference CHEMPOR 2008; 2008

Biological Engineering Department, University of Minho

The wine industry is one of the main industries in San Juan, Argentina. The majority of the large firms still consider the environmental issues as a cost driver. As a result of this consideration firms do not use more resources for environmental technologies. On the other hand, the more important impacts associated with wine making are: energy and water consumption, solid wastes generation and gaseous emission.This work presents an environmental diagnosis of winery industry, taking into account the main aspects and the collected data. The evaluation was carried out applying the Schaltegger and Sturm´s definition. This diagnosis originates the necessity to propose the opportunities for uptake of Cleaner Production to wineries in San Juan. In this work, these opportunities are proposed using Cleaner Production Assessment. They are focused in each unit operation, stage process and services and utilities.