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Contributing to the development of sustainable alternative energy resources
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He was part of the former team in ethanol production for Nicaragua Sugar Estates Ltd. He has visited the newly built ethanol plants of Mayaguez, Manuelita, Incauca and Rizaralda, and the industrial complex of Sucromiles all in Colombia in 2005. His interest in biofuels and renewable energy has lead him, together with other colleagues to found Biofuels Today & Ethanol Expertise, to help spread information on biofuels and renewable energy. He has been involved in the construction, comissioning and startup of the first anaerobic digesters plant in Nicaragua using vinasse for biogas production; the design and startup of two fermentation facilities one for 150 KLD and other for 300 KLD alcohol production. He also was involved in the comissioning and startup of one 300 KLD distillery and two molecular sieves dehydration plants one for 100 KLD and one for 600 KLD fuel ethanol production. He was invited lecturer in the IV Congreso Nicaraguense de Biotecnología presenting the theme: Bioethanol in Nicaragua. Also he recently conduced a technical proposal for a prototype plant for the production of ethanol from Cresentia alata
He conducted a series of investigations to determine the reasons of poor biogas production in the new plant. The results of his findings made possible to identify and correct the causes and the modifications introduced by his team and the technolgy owners to the system lead the plant from 3,500 gallons per day of oil displaced to more than 7,000 gallons per day. Since 2006 he conducts the validation of carbon emissions (CER) displaced with the biogas plant in Compañía Licorera for the obtention of carbon credits for the company. He has made several visits to wastewater treatment plants in Brasil and Colombia. Recently, he participated in the World Biogas Makets Summit in Brussels, Belgium, in november 2007. He also was invited lecturer in the IV Congreso Nicaraguense de Biotecnología, where he shared his experience in distilleries effluent technologies.  José R. Vallejos is currently pursuing a PhD degree at the University of Maryland at Baltimore (UMBC). In 2005, he earned a Master Degree in Chemical Engineering at UMBC. His Masters thesis work was focused on Mixing Time Characterization of minibioreactors.
He has published two technical papers related to mixing in bioreactors. He is a member of ACS (American Chemical Society), and in the 229th National Meeting in San Diego, California, in 2005, he presented one of his papers to the society. In the last 3 years he attended several training courses: GMP’s for Bioprocesses, 2004; GMP Facility Design, Construction and Validation, 2005; Regulatory Issues in Biotechnology, 2007; all of them at UMBC. José was awarded with the prestigious Fulbright scholarship from 2003-2005 sponsored by the State Department of the United States of America. In 1999 he was also awarded with a JICA scholarship to receive training in Pest Control at Agricultural University in Kobe, Japan. Between 2000 and 2002, José R. Vallejos held the position of Engineer Process Assistant in the Alcohol Production Department at Compañía Licorera de Nicaragua. Then, in 2005 after returning from his Masters studies, he was promoted as the Production Manager of the Gas Carbonic Recovery Plant (CARBOX DE Nicaragua) at Compañía Licorera de Nicaragua where he also provided fermentation advises to the company. In 2007, he went back to Baltimore to pursue a PhD degree in Chemical Engineering at UMBC. |
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