Post by khatunejannat on Feb 15, 2024 1:11:36 GMT -5
Today we interview Pedro Jesús Sánchez , an environmental engineer with extensive experience in natural resource management, who decided to study the Wastewater Purification Course in our center, in online mode. First of all, Pedro, we would like to know, what led you to dedicate yourself to natural resource management? Well, it was quite vocational and, in part, thanks to the push of a high school teacher. I grew up in a rural area of Almería, in continuous contact with the countryside and the mountains. And from a very young age, the idea of learning about the natural resources that surround us to use them in a way that allows and improves our existence , without diminishing their potential, much less exhausting it, seemed very evident to me, almost logical.
Don Juan Antonio, my first high school science teacher, told me one day that the field of environmental engineering aligned with my values. As soon as I got home I looked up what that Cuba Email List meant and made my decision, at 14 years old. Such is the importance of the teachers and professors who mark us. We know that you have specialized in the bioenergy sector, specifically in biogas technology, can you tell us what this technology consists of? Biogas is produced when an organic substrate is decomposed in the absence of oxygen by several groups of bacteria that at the end of the process emit this methane-rich fuel gas, in what is known as anaerobic digestion . This gas is an energy vector from which electricity, heat can be generated or it can be used as fuel for vehicles.
It is a process that occurs naturally in the earth's crust, at the bottom of bodies of water, in landfills... The modernization of this process consists of carrying it out in a controlled manner, with optimal parameters so that this objective is achieved. in a much more efficient way. One of the attractions of this technology is that the range of organic substrates used is very diverse, being able to use dedicated crops for this purpose, but also diverse organic waste (agricultural, food industry, wastewater sludge, the organic fraction of solid waste). urban, etc.), stabilizing them in the process (reducing pathogens, odors, etc.) and also obtaining a product that can be used as fertilizer. In your opinion, what role should treatment plants and other waste management plants play in the future of bioenergy? I think that every waste management center , including treatment plants, must evolve in its concept . By this I mean going one step beyond minimizing the environmental and health risks of waste, and adding to its objectives the processing of materials that are no longer merely waste , but raw materials of interest for other processes further down the chain.
Don Juan Antonio, my first high school science teacher, told me one day that the field of environmental engineering aligned with my values. As soon as I got home I looked up what that Cuba Email List meant and made my decision, at 14 years old. Such is the importance of the teachers and professors who mark us. We know that you have specialized in the bioenergy sector, specifically in biogas technology, can you tell us what this technology consists of? Biogas is produced when an organic substrate is decomposed in the absence of oxygen by several groups of bacteria that at the end of the process emit this methane-rich fuel gas, in what is known as anaerobic digestion . This gas is an energy vector from which electricity, heat can be generated or it can be used as fuel for vehicles.
It is a process that occurs naturally in the earth's crust, at the bottom of bodies of water, in landfills... The modernization of this process consists of carrying it out in a controlled manner, with optimal parameters so that this objective is achieved. in a much more efficient way. One of the attractions of this technology is that the range of organic substrates used is very diverse, being able to use dedicated crops for this purpose, but also diverse organic waste (agricultural, food industry, wastewater sludge, the organic fraction of solid waste). urban, etc.), stabilizing them in the process (reducing pathogens, odors, etc.) and also obtaining a product that can be used as fertilizer. In your opinion, what role should treatment plants and other waste management plants play in the future of bioenergy? I think that every waste management center , including treatment plants, must evolve in its concept . By this I mean going one step beyond minimizing the environmental and health risks of waste, and adding to its objectives the processing of materials that are no longer merely waste , but raw materials of interest for other processes further down the chain.