Juan Manuel Salazar

PhD Chemical Engineering
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Research advisor: Dr. Keith L. Hohn
Dissertation: "Sol-gel synthesis of vanadium phosphorous oxides for the partial oxidation of n-butane to Maleic Anhydride"

BSc Chemical Engineering, Honor Degree
National Universitiy of Colombia, Manizales, Colombia
Emphasis Field: Chemical, Catalytic and Biological Processes

RESEARCH AREAS:

Process System Engineering: Advanced process synthesis and optimization for energy related processes
Statistical analysis: Analysis of variance, correlation and regression analysis, experimental design of catalytic and biological systems
Synthesis, evaluation and characterization of catalytic materials
Characterization of intermediate and byproducts of biomass processing
Mechanistic modeling and simulation of catalytic reactions

EXPERIENCE:

Research Engineer: VRI-CUSTOM, 2008-Present

Developed and applied mathematical programming tools for the minimization of water usage and consumption in power plants

Developed and adapted simulation flowsheets to be used in the synthesis and optimization of power plant models including gasification, chemical looping combustion and carbon sequestration

Adjunct Research Assistant Professor: Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2008-Present

Co-teach course: Introduction to applied optimization. Delivered lectures and tutorials on computational tools for applied optimization

Graduate Research Assistant: Department of Chemical Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 2003-2007

Applied alkoxide sol-gel process to the synthesis of solid materials in order to improve their surface area and their performance as catalysts and catalysts' supports

Evaluated catalytic materials in fixed-bed differential reactors

Employed XRD, DRIFTS, SEM, BET for the characterization of catalytic and biomass-derived materials

Instructor: Department of Petroleum Engineering, University of the Americas, Bogotá, Colombia: Mass and Energy Balances, 2002
Instructor: Department of Chemical Engineering, National University of Colombia, Manizales, Colombia: Fundamentals of catalytic processes and process engineering, 2001
Internship: IBC Sulfuric Acid Plant, Manizales, Colombia, Plant Manager Assistant, 1998-1999

SOFTWARE SKILLS:

Chemical Engineering software: Aspen Plus, Hysys and HX-net
Programming languages: Fortran
Mathematics and Statistics: Matlab and SAS

PUBLICATIONS:

Salazar, J. M.; Diwekar, U. M. Minimization of fresh water consumption for particulate carbon (pc) power plants. Proceedings FOCAPD 2009, Accepted.
Salazar, J. M.; Diwekar, U. M. Minimization under uncertainty of water consumption in PC and IGCC power plants. In preparation 2009.
Shastri, Y; Salazar, J. M.; Diwekar, U. M. Multi-Objective optimization analysis of the IGCC system with chemical looping combustion. In preparation 2009.
Corredor, D. Y; Sun, X. S. ; Salazar, J. M.; Hohn, K.L. and Wang, D. Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Soybean Hull using Dilute Acid and Steam Explosion Pretreatments. J. Biobased materials and bioenergy. 2, 43-50 (2008).
Corredor, D. Y; Salazar, J. M.; Hohn, K.L., Bean, S., Bean, B. and Wang, D. Evaluation and characterization of forage sorghum as feedstock for fermentable sugar production. Appl. Biochem. Biotech. Available online August 2008.
Salazar, J. M; Hohn, K.L. Sol-gel synthesis of vanadium phosphorous oxides for the partial oxidation of butane to Maleic anhydride. AIChE annual meeting, Conference Proceedings. 2006, 308G/1.
Salazar, J.M.; Hohn, K.L. Preparation of high surface area VOHPO4 0.5H2O with the alkoxide method. AIChE annual meeting, Conference Proceedings. 2004, 558G/1.

CONFERENCES:

AIChE Annual Meeting, Phyladelphya, PA, Nov 17-21, 2008
AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, Nov 4-9, 2007
AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Nov 12-17, 2006
11th Annual Graduate Research Forum, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, March 3, 2006
19th North American Catalysis Society Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, May 22-27, 2005
AIChE Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, Nov 10-16, 2004
39th Midwest Regional Meeting of the Am. Chem. Soc, Manhattan, KS, October 20-22, 2004

AWARDS:

W. H. Hostead Fellowship for outstanding graduate students in Chemical Engineering at Kansas State University 2005-2006 and 2006-2007
Merit award for the graduating final report: "Implementation of the quality assurance system according to ISO 9001 at a sulfuric acid plant"
Highest GPA (4.21/5.0) among all Chem. Eng. graduates in 1999 school year