| Expert Name | Mr: José Francisco Santiago Fernández |
| Title | Researcher |
| Division | Water Quality and Wastewater Treatement |
| Institution | Instituto de Hidrologia y calidad de las aguas. Instituto nacional de recursos hidraulicos |
| City | La Habana |
| Country | Cuba |
| Telephone | 53 7 579 284 |
| Email | cenhica(at)ceniai.inf.cu |
| Work Experience | -designed the monitoring networks for control an assessment the surface water quality and underground water quality for the Provinces of Habana and Ciudad de La Habana
-Head of project: demonstrated that in Undergroundwaters the chemical composition and the proportion in which the different species contribute, depend from lithology and dissolution conditions…
-developed water quality model based in the classical model of Streeter and Phelps…
-Head of project developing a technology for wastewater treatment
-Head of the treatment in the Water Supply Treatment Plant “El Dorado”, Bogatá Waterworks Service, Colombia
--Head of project: objective is to develop a technology for use biological filtration and capacity of soils to remouve contaminants, to reuse the water…
-Principal Counter part of the project IAEA Cub 8/17 “ Alarm System for Accidental Toxic Chemical Spills”..
-made the 2 main standards that in Cuba regulate the discharge of treated and untreated wastewater in waters: th |
| Qualifications | -Bachelor in Chemical Science, Univ. of Havana
-Doctor in Science Ph.D
-Analytical Chemist and Head of National Laboratory of Waterwork and Sewers
-Researcher of Water Quality
-Head of Treatment, Chemical Engineer in the Water Supply Treatment Plant " El Dorado" |
| Number of Publications | 30 |
| Awards | Award of the First Competition of the Ministry of Construction, for the National Map of the Water Quality of Cuba |
| Other Activities | -Member of Technical Advisor Council of the Minister of National Institute of Hydraulic Resources INRH
-Member of the Scientific Council of the Water Quality and Hydrology Center
-President of the Sub Committee for Standardization in the field of Water Resources of Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment
-Member of National Union of Engineers of Cuba
-Member of the Cuban Association of Sanitary Engineering |
| Publications | -“Tratamiento de residuals porcinos y domésticos mediante el cultivo de Lemneca.” Memoirs of the XXV Congress Interamericano de Ingeniería Sanitaria y Ambiental, Mexico, 3-7 November 1996
-“Manual de potabilización de agues. Para operadores de plantas de tratamiento de agua.” Centro de Hidrologia y Calidad de Agua. Edited by Centro de Información de Agua y Saneamiento, Cuba 118 p. ISBN 959
-“Caracterización de la composición de las agues subterráneas naturals de las cuencas cársicas cerradas de las provincias de la Habana y Ciudad de la Habana.” Voluntad Hidráulica, p. 22, no 92-93, 2000
-“Relación de los components químicos principales y el transporte y la dispersion de sustancias químicas con las variables hidráulicas en el río Caout.” Memoirs of the XX Congress Latinoamericano de Hidráulica. IAHR, ISBN 959-7160 17-x, 2002
-„Experiencias cubanas en el tratamiento de residuales.” Cursos cortos en el marco del XX Congress Latinoamericano de Hidráulica, 2002 |
| Discipline | Hydrology |
| Last updated | 27/07/2011 15:03:00 |