During the period between October 2003 and December 2006, that the implementation of the DIONYSOS Project took place, the following actions materialized:

Various alternative scenarios for the management of winery wastes were designed, tested and evaluated. These scenarios aimed at the effective and integrated treatment of the specific waste and simultaneously at the recovery of the polyphenols content.

The optimum management scenario was selected according to technoeconomic and environmental criteria.

Based on the selected scenario a test plant was designed and constructed at pilot scale.

The pilot plant operated during two successive wine producing periods. During this period continuous improvements of the pilot plant took place in order to achieve its optimum performance

The application of the developed technology led to the production of:

Enriched polyphenolic extract (1 Kg per 100 Kg of grape pomace)

Pure polyphenols (e.g. resveratrol)

The above products are suitable, in terms of chemical form and purity, to be used as raw material in various applications:

- production of medicines

- production of cosmetics

- production of food supplements etc.

Natural organic fertilizer (compost).

Progress, Results

The activities implemented and the corresponding resulted outputs are presented per task in the following Table and analyzed briefly in the Final Report.

Task No.	Task Title	Activities	Output
1	Project management	Management of the project	Management of the project
		Financial, Scientific and Technical coordination of the project	Financial, Scientific and Technical coordination of the project
		Progress reporting to the EC	1^st , 2^nd , 3^rd and 4^th Progress Reports Final Report
2	Review, analysis and design	Review on winery waste management technologies and know-how	Report on existing technologies and know-how concerning winery solid waste and wastewater management.
2	Review, analysis and design	Analysis of pilot plant design data Design of the pilot plant process	Pilot plant designed and engineered. Pilot plant construction phase planned in detail. Pilot plant operation methodology organized.
3	Pilot plant construction	Purchase of all the necessary components for the assembling and construction of the pilot plant	Pilot plant (preliminary treatment sub-units, central polyphenols recovery sub-unit, composting sub-unit, animal food production sub-unit) constructed and operational
3	Pilot plant construction	Construction of the pilot plant
4	Operation, evaluation and optimization of the pilot plant	Operation of the pilot plant	Technical Report on the pilot plant operation (preliminary treatment sub-units, central polyphenols recovery sub-unit, composting sub-unit, animal food production sub-unit)
		Monitoring of the operational and environmental parameters
		Optimization of the process
		Qualitative and quantitative characterization of the extracted natural antioxidants, fertilizer and animal food
5	Evaluation of Pilot plant outcomes	Assessment and analysis of the pilot plant results	Feasibility and full-scale upgrade studies of the process
5	Evaluation of Pilot plant outcomes	Evaluation of the viability for a full-scale development of the process	Feasibility and full-scale upgrade studies of the process