Department of Chemical Engineering
Biographical Sketch:
Qualifications:
P.Eng., Professional Engineers, Ontario
Ph.D., University of Western Ontario
Research Interests:
Dr. Manuel Alvarez Cuenca, is an international expert in the area of Fluidized Bed Technology and advanced reactors for the treatment of water and wastewater. He has numerous publications in English and Spanish in leading chemical engineering journals. In 1996 he published the book, Pressurized Fluidized Bed Combustion.
Dr. Cuenca has over 15 years of industrial experience as a chemical engineer with some of the largest multinational corporations of the energy and power generation fields. Dr. Cuenca is also an international consultant and has participated in the development of environmental projects in Spain, Sweden, Brazil (CIDA), Colombia and Mexico. He is an Adjunct Professor with the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Waterloo, the School of Engineering of the University of Guelph and several universities in South America.
His laboratory at Ryerson is involved in the development of water treatment technologies for small and medium size flows and advanced reactors for the treatment of water and wastewater. The Laboratory of Water Treatment Technologies is endowed with several large advanced reactors including, two three-phase fluidized bed reactors, one vacuum column and one large rotating biological contactor. Dr. Alvarez Cuenca has chaired numerous international congresses and belongs to all the leading professional institutions associated to the treatment of water and wastewater.
Teaching:
Selected Publications:
- "Convenio de Cooperación Académica entre la R.P.U de Ontario, Canada y la Universidad de Cartagena, Colombia: Una Acción Internacionalizadora" Manuel Alvarez Cuenca and Raul Guerrero Torres. Proceedings of the XXII Reunión Nacional de Facultades de Ingeniería, Cartagena de Indias, September 18-20, 2002.
- "Oxygen Mass Transfer in a Rotating Biological Contactor".E. Castilla Rodriguez, M. Alvarez Cuenca, L. Otten and A. Lohi. (In preparation)
- "Nitrification and Denitrification in a Rotating Biological Contactor" M. Alvarez Cuenca, E. Castilla Rodriguez, A.Lohi, and L. Otten (In preparation)
- "El Impacto Ambiental de la Pequeña y Mediana Empresa en los Recursos Hídricos de Colombia". M. Alvarez Cuenca, Henry Maury Ardila and Diana Mosquera. Agua Latinoamérica Sept-October (2001), P 40-43.
- "Mass Transfer Zones in Three-Phase Fluidized Bed Reactors" Manuel Alvarez Cuenca, Edgar Quiñones Bolaños, and Lambert Otten. Submitted to AIChe Journal (2001)
- "Axial Variation of the Volumetric Mass Transfer Coefficient in Fluidized Beds" by Edgar Quiñones Bolaños, Manuel Alvarez Cuenca, Lambert Otten. Submitted to Water Research (2001)
- "Biological Fluidized Bed Reactors: A Technology for Water Treatment" by Edgar Quiñones, Manuel Alvarez Cuenca, Lambert Otten, and Mehrab Mehrvar, Proceedings of the Environmental Forum Colombia-Canada, May 24-26, 2000, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.
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