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Table 1

Main characteristics of raw OMW from the top 10 olive oil producing countries

Countries	Production (ton)	pH	EC	COD	BOD₅	TSS	Total phenols	References
Countries	Production (ton)	pH	mS/cm	g/L	g/L	g/L	g/L	References
Spain	1,401,600	4.7	–	82	–	15	1.2	Garcıa et al. (2000)
Italy	474,600	5.0	–	28.4	–	29	1.409	Cassano et al. (2013)
Greece	320,000	4,6	17	47	–	50.3	8.1	Chatzisymeon et al. (2009b)
Turkey	143,000	4.28–4.85	10.04–12.01	55.73–91.55	29.93–38.60	14.08–33.50	2.439–4.509	Değermenci et al. (2016)
Tunisia	140,000	4.8	8.8	58.5	17	41.7	9.1	Mekki et al. (2008)
Morocco	130,000	4.32	11.25	24.49	11.64	3.59	3.15	Elkacmi et al. (2017b)
Portugal	109,100	5.1–5.8	–	7.45–68.48	0.5–9.50	3.13–30.22	0.027–1.051	Amaral et al. (2008)
Algeria	83,500	4.7	–	74.5	–	–	16.5	Iboukhoulef et al. (2013)
Jordan	29,500	4.91	7.64	58.614	36.329	–	2.269	Ayoub et al. (2014)
Egypt	25,000	3.8–5.2	–	45.334–134.40	12–78	17,71–66,286	19.78–22.029	El-Gohary et al. (2009)

Countries	Production (ton)	pH	EC	COD	BOD₅	TSS	Total phenols	References
Countries	Production (ton)	pH	mS/cm	g/L	g/L	g/L	g/L	References
Spain	1,401,600	4.7	–	82	–	15	1.2	Garcıa et al. (2000)
Italy	474,600	5.0	–	28.4	–	29	1.409	Cassano et al. (2013)
Greece	320,000	4,6	17	47	–	50.3	8.1	Chatzisymeon et al. (2009b)
Turkey	143,000	4.28–4.85	10.04–12.01	55.73–91.55	29.93–38.60	14.08–33.50	2.439–4.509	Değermenci et al. (2016)
Tunisia	140,000	4.8	8.8	58.5	17	41.7	9.1	Mekki et al. (2008)
Morocco	130,000	4.32	11.25	24.49	11.64	3.59	3.15	Elkacmi et al. (2017b)
Portugal	109,100	5.1–5.8	–	7.45–68.48	0.5–9.50	3.13–30.22	0.027–1.051	Amaral et al. (2008)
Algeria	83,500	4.7	–	74.5	–	–	16.5	Iboukhoulef et al. (2013)
Jordan	29,500	4.91	7.64	58.614	36.329	–	2.269	Ayoub et al. (2014)
Egypt	25,000	3.8–5.2	–	45.334–134.40	12–78	17,71–66,286	19.78–22.029	El-Gohary et al. (2009)