Conversion of Rose Processing Effluent into Bioproducts with Bio-Circular Economic and Artificial Intelligence Predictive Models.

Türkiye is the top producer of the oil rose flower production in the last 10 years and the obtained rose oil worldwide which meets 70% of rose oil production of the world. Hence, Türkiye, has a very important place in the perfumery and cosmetics sector and exports trade of the oil reached US$953.27 Million in 2020. As a result, large quantities of Rose oil solid processing waste-rose pulp (RSPW) and Rose Oil Processing Effluent- process wastewater (ROPE) are produced over a limited time interval. Unfortunately, the wastes resulting from this production, contains pollutant loads, is stored in collection pits and therefore brings environmental problems. The increase in the number of the rose oil factories as well as the distant locations of each other make waste management and environmental inspections difficult. Many problems such as underground and surface water pollution, soil pollution, odor problem, air pollution, visual pollution and disease risk arise as a result of not properly treated and evaluated wastes from rose oil factories and leaving them to nature unsupervised. The general objective of our RoPEBio-AIM project is to convert RSPW and ROPE from rose oil factories, which are used in the cosmetic, food and pharmaceutical industries, where the most rose and rose products are produced among the Mediterranean countries, into bioproducts. In addition, it is aimed to produce raw materials for agriculture, food and energy sectors on the axis of bio-circular economy. Specific objectives in terms of bio-circular economic model are: -to treat an agricultural industrial wastewater that has not been economically utilized with a biological process, to reduce the grey water footprint level -To reduce input costs for nutrient media for microalgae cultivation -To provide CO2 removal during the biological process to reduce the carbon footprint -To obtain microalgae-based agricultural bioproducts without occupying agricultural areas -Reuse wastewater; saving blue water as a result of reducing the blue water footprint (in agricultural irrigation, in aquaponic system, in the distillation water in the rose oil processing) -To increase the diversity of bioproducts (compost, biofertilizer, biochar, biodiesel, biogas, fish feed) -To perform techno-economic-energy analysis -To develop a decision support system with machine learning and developing wastewater-bioproduct-based economic models -To build a blockchain for data sharing -To create socio-economic models with artificial intelligence-based evaluation of outputs In RoPEBio-AIM; monitoring of sustainability performance in all processes, ensuring sustainability teamwork by the entire project management, and a systematic sustainability report will be presented at the end of the project process. For this purpose, monitoring and reporting of sustainability targets, activities and outputs will be carried out. It is planned to ensure continuity of communication with the project partners and the external stakeholders of the project, taking into account the stakeholder relations at every stage of this process. Such as GRI (Global Reporting Initiative), SASB (Sustainability Accounting Standards Board), CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project), CDSB (Climate Disclosure Standards Board), TCFD (Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures) and IIRC (International Integrated Reporting Council) recommendations, principles, frameworks and standards will be set for sustainability disclosures, including climate-related reporting from institutions. It is planned to develop a sustainability reporting format in line with the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) associated with the project, by making use of these up-to-date guidelines throughout the project process.