Monica Julieth Valencia Botero

The below tasks were carried out in connection with the project "Pilot testing GBEP sustainablity indicators for bioenergy in Colombia": Indicator 1: Adress all comments provided by the Lead Technical Officer and Lead Technical Adviser and revise the indicators accordingly. Other indicators: Provide information and related reference on selected issues related to palm oil production in Colombia.

Profesional services as chemical engineer to support writing activities of projects related to biomass sustainable use, mainly as feedstock in biorefinery processes. The tasks included: - Technical and economic analysis of bioenergy production processes from Caldas feedstocks. - Process integration and environmental analysis of bioenergy production schemes, using agroindustrial wastes from agrarian regions of Caldas. - Compare design options of micro power units for Caldas regions.

Profesional services as chemical engineer for the project: "Design of technical and funcional studios for the building and implementation of the Fishing Technological Center of Cesar State".

Researcher of the project: "Design and assessment of a sustainable biorefinery from Orinoco feedstocks". The main responsibilities were: - Environmental assessment of several biorefineries proposals. - Physicochemical characterization of feedstocks.

Calculations of GBEP sustainability indicator for colombian bioenergy.

Participation in the project "Assessment of the possibilities of sustainable production of secondary metabolites from endemic amazonic feedstocks". The tasks included: - Assessment of both current amazonic ecosystems and biological diversity changes of Amazon and Caldas, due to global warming. - Assessment of scenario and projections which allow environmentally-sustainable use of amazonic feedstocks.

Participation of the project "Empowerment of agroindustrial capabilities of rural Caldas-regions - Generating of new product and process opportunities" supporting collecting and writting result activities.

Participation in the project "Assessment of the possibilities of sustainable production of secondary metabolites from endemic amazonic feedstocks". The tasks included: - Assessment of both current amazonic ecosystems and biological diversity changes of Amazon and Caldas, due to global warming. - Design and implementation of a species migration and distribution model applied to amazonic and caldas regions.

The tasks were to provide technical assistance on the application of Process Engineering for Environmental and Techno-economic Analysis (PENTA)

Profesional services as chemical engineer for the project: "Design of a fuel ethanol production process from lignocellulosic wastes of Caldas, by using celluloses and integrated processes". The tasks included: - Assessment of greenhouse gas emissions of lifecycle of fuel ethanol, biodiesel and biogas production and use. - Analysis of the wastes from fuel ethanol, biodiesel and biogas production. - Analysis of greenhouse gas emissions saving for fuel ethanol, biodiesel and biogas production.

Profesional services as chemical engineer for the project: "Design of a fuel ethanol production process from lignocellulosic wastes of Caldas, by using celluloses and integrated processes". The tasks included: - Assessment of greenhouse gas emissions of lifecycle of fuel ethanol, biodiesel and biogas production and use. - Analysis of the wastes from fuel ethanol, biodiesel and biogas production. - Analysis of greenhouse gas emissions saving for fuel ethanol, biodiesel and biogas production.

The tasks were to carry out physicochemical and biological laboratory test to waters, wastewaters and sludge (e.g. chemical oxygen demand, biochemical oxygen demands, grease, harness, basicity).

In this work, the main responsibility was to teach mathematics, physics and environmental education for 10-18 years old boys and girls, according with the institutional programme.

The aim of this program is the assessment of heterogeneous catalysts behavior in CO2-hydrogenation reaction.

The aim of this program was the Greenhouse Gases (GHG) assessment associated to the lifecycle of the major Colombian biofuels, i.e. sugarcane-based bioethanol and oil palm-based biodiesel, at the current conditions.

Chemical Engineering, Process Engineering, Environmental Engineering