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Evaluating the Sustainability and Inherent Safety of a Crude Palm Oil Production Process in North-Colombia
González-Delgado, Angel Darío; Barajas Solano, andres F; León Pulido, Jeffrey (Applied SciencesSuiza, 2021-01-25)The African palm is the main source of vegetable oil worldwide, representing about 29.60% of the total oil and fat production around the world. The rapid expansion of this sector has faced several concerns related to ... -
Evaluation of Algae-Based Biodiesel Production Topologies via Inherent Safety Index (ISI)
González-Delgado, Angel Darío; García-Martinez, Janet; Barajas Solano, andres F (Applied SciencesSuiza, 2021-03-23)Increasing energy needs have led to soaring fossil fuel consumption, which has caused several environmental problems. These environmental aspects along with the energy demand have motivated the search for new energy systems. ... -
Evaluation of In-Situ Transient Simultaneous Cell Disruption and Transesterification of Microalgae
González-Delgado, Angel Darío; Barajas Solano, andres F; Peralta-Ruiz, Yeimmy (Contemporary Engineering SciencesBulgaria, 2017-12-07)Microalgae has recently been highlighted as source of valuable products including biofuel. The production process of biofuels from microalgae involves mass cultivation, harvesting, deep dewatering, lipid extraction and ... -
Evaluation of the effect of flocculation on harvesting of microalgaenannochloropsis SP
ZUORRO, Antonio; Barajas Solano, andres F; Mena, Nelson Osvaldo; González-Delgado, Angel Darío; Ortegón, Manuel Alejandro; Sanguino, Paola Andrea; Lavecchia, Roberto (ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 2018-08)Microalgae have recently emerged as an attractive source of products for the food, energy and pharmaceutical industries due to their high biomass productivity, metabolic versatility and environmental sustainability. This ... -
Evaluation of the Light/Dark Cycle and Concentration of Tannery Wastewater in the Production of Biomass and Metabolites of Industrial Interest from Microalgae and Cyanobacteria
Urbina-Suarez, Nestor Andres; Ayala González, Darly D.; Rivera Amaya, Jennyfer D.; Barajas Solano, andres F; Machuca-Martinez, Fiderman (WaterSuiza, 2022-01-25)The tanning industry transforms animal skins into leather and produces liquid effluents with a high organic and inorganic pollutant load. This work evaluated the effect of the tannery wastewater (TWW) concentration and ... -
Impact of Biomass Drying Process on the Extraction Efficiency of C-Phycoerythrin
Vergel Suarez, Ariadna Hazel; García-Martinez, Janet; López Barrera, German Luciano; Barajas Solano, andres F; ZUORRO, Antonio (BioTech, 2023-04-23)Drying the biomass produced is one of the critical steps to avoid cell degradation; however, its high energy cost is a significant technological barrier to improving this type of bioprocess’s technical and economic ... -
Improvement of Biorefinery Efficiency for Microalgae Nannochloropsis sp. via Harvesting Technology Evaluation
Sanguino, Paola Andrea; González-Delgado, Angel Darío; Barajas Solano, andres F (Contemporary Engineering SciencesBulgaria, 2018-04-04)Recently, microalgal biomass has attached much attention due to the wide diversity of compounds synthesized from different metabolic pathways. This work attempts to study metabolites recovery from Nannochloropsis sp. ... -
An Innovative Low-Cost Equipment for Electro-Concentration of Microalgal Biomass
Contreras Ropero, Jefferson Eduardo; Barajas Solano, andres F; García-Martinez, Janet; ZUORRO, Antonio; Sanchez, Edwar; Cárdenas, Ingri (Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 2020-07-14)Microalgal harvesting is one of the most challenging processes in the development of algal research and development. Several methods, such as centrifugation, flocculation and filtration, are available at the laboratory ... -
Lipids production from Scenedesmus obliquus through carbon/nitrogen ratio optimization
Barajas Solano, andres F; Urbina-Suarez, Nestor Andres; Rangel-Basto, Yeily Adriana; Cuéllar García, Diego J.; Muñoz Peñaloza, Yaneth A. (Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2019)Microalgae are one of the most promising sources of raw material for biofuel production and derivatives since its high yield of biomass and metabolites possess a low environmental impact. However, its implementation on ... -
Optimization of Phycobiliprotein Solubilization from a Thermotolerant Oscillatoria sp
Barajas Solano, andres F (ProcessesSuiza, 2022-04-24)The present study evaluated the effect of multiple variables (drying time, drying temperature, biomass/solvent ratio, glass beads/biomass ratio, extraction time, and extraction speed) in the solubilization of three different ... -
A Phytochemical Approach to the Removal of Contaminants from Industrial Dyeing Wastewater
Urbina-Suarez, Nestor Andres; Salcedo Pabón, Cristian Jesús; Contreras Ropero, Jefferson Eduardo; López Barrera, German Luciano; García-Martinez, Janet; Barajas Solano, andres F; Machuca-Martínez, Fiderman (ChemEngineering, 2023-09-28)This study investigates the influence of photoperiod and wastewater concentration on the growth of microalgae and cyanobacteria for the removal of environmentally significant parameters (COD, BOD, Cr, Fe, color, chlorides, ... -
Production of Chlorella vulgaris Biomass on UV‐treated Wastewater as an Alternative for Environmental Sustainability on High‐Mountain Fisheries
Guiza, Luisa; Orozco, Luis G.; Sanchez-Galvis, Edwar; García-Martinez, Janet; Barajas, Crisóstomo; ZUORRO, Antonio; Barajas Solano, andres F (Chemical Engineering TransactionsItalia, 2018-05)The sustained expansion of agricultural industry in Colombian high-mountain has led to an increased size of residues, especially untreated wastewater. This untreated water is an urgent matter for public and environmental ... -
Removal of Organic Pollutants from San Pablo Farm Wastewater Using a Pilot-Scale Biological Treatment
Ortiz Alvarez, Maria Daniela; SUAREZ GELVEZ, JOHN HERMOGENES; Pérez, Michael Edgardo; González-Delgado, Angel Darío; Barajas Solano, andres F; Urbina-Suarez, Nestor Andres (Contemporary Engineering Sciences, 2017-12-24)Biological treatment is the most common process used to treat organics-containing wastewaters from industrial, domestic and agricultural activities. This work aims to remove organic pollutants using pilot-scale biological ... -
Technical-economic Prefeasibility Study of Astaxanthin Production System from H. pluvial Microalgae in Colombia
González-Delgado, Angel Darío; Barajas Solano, andres F; Barajas, Crisostomo; Morales, J.; Villabona, R. (Indian Journal of Science and TechnologyIndia, 2018-09)Nowadays, microalgae has been considered as source of valuable products such as astaxanthin, which is a carotenoid with great commercial potential as antioxidant widely used in many industries such as pharmaceutical, ... -
Towards the production of microalgae biofuels: the effect of the culture medium on lipid deposition
Cuéllar García, Diego Javier; Rangel-Basto, Yeily Adriana; Barajas Solano, andres F; Muñoz-Peñalosa, Yaneth A.; Urbina-Suarez, Nestor Andres (BioTechnologiaPolonia, 2019-09-26)Microalgae have been studied in recent years for various reasons, one among them being their potential in the production of biofuels. Biofuels are considered as a renewable source that does not compete with the food industry, ... -
Using the Response Surface Methodology to Treat Tannery Wastewater with the Bicarbonate-Peroxide System
Urbina-Suarez, Nestor Andres; Salcedo Pabón, Cristian Jesús; López Barrera, German Luciano; García-Martinez, Janet; Barajas Solano, andres F; Machuca-Martínez, Fiderman (ChemEngineering, 2023-07-16)A bicarbonate-peroxide (BAP) system was evaluated to improve the quality of industrial tannery wastewater using an I-optimal experimental design with four variables (temperature, initial pH, bicarbonate, and H2O2 concentration). ... -
Vinasse as a Sustainable Medium for the Production of Chlorella vulgaris UTEX 1803
García-Martinez, Janet; Quintero, viviana; Contreras Ropero, Jefferson Eduardo; Barajas Solano, andres F; Barajas, Crisostomo; Lavecchia, Roberto; ZUORRO, Antonio (WaterSuiza, 2019-07-24)This study investigates distillery wastewater, commonly known as vinasse, as a potential culture medium for the production of Chlorella vulgaris and its most relevant metabolites. The effect of vinasse concentration on the ...