Abstract
The Dodoma Winery Company (DOWICO), is presently processing about 1000 tonnes of grapes to produce different types of wines, with left overs of about 200 as wastes. These wastes are dumped outside the factory, obviously, a poor method of waste disposition as far as the environmental significance is concerned. Since the expansion programme, to enable the plant to handle up to 30000 tonnes of grapes per year is in the pipeline the best method of disposing the huge amount of waste (about 6000 tonnes) that will result, has to be sought.
This paper highlights the financial and sanitary advantage of making the fullest sanitary advantage of making the fullest use of the winery waste by producing drinkable alcohol, Potassium Tartrate, Edible oil, Nutritious animal feed and fertilizer as by-products. The technology involved is not sophisticated, moreover, most of the equipments involved can be manufactured locally. The experimental results are presented.
Recommended Citation
Katima, J. (1988). Winery waste utilization-a case study of Dowico. Tanzania Journal of Engineering and Technology (TJET), 12(2), 64-73. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.52339/tjet.v12i2.88
Publisher Name
University of Dar es Salaam