10 - HYDRODYNAMIC CAVITATION TECHNOLOGIES: A PATHWAY TO MORE SUSTAINABLE, HEALTHIER BEVERAGES, AND FOOD SUPPLY CHAINS

This chapter frames the emerging class of technologies based on controlled hydrodynamic cavitation (HC) processes into the lively debated issue of the sustainability of food supply chains. Holistic approaches to sustainability have been progressively adopted, to address severe flaws of reductionist solutions, such as extreme sensitivity to rebound effects, as well as to represent as much as possible of the innumerable nonlinear feedbacks among subsystems of the global environment, economy, and human society.