The research projects that CIPI carries out are reflected in Articles and Working Documents, whose publication and dissemination constitute a central part of its activities.

 

• DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A TREATMENT SYSTEM FOR ARSENIC REMOVAL FROM GROUNDWATER IN BOLIVIAN HIGHLANDS AND VALLEYS (2020)
  Ramiro Escalera, Omar Ormachea, Mauricio Ormachea, José Luis García, Jesús Suso,María Eugenia García,Fernando Pérez,Jorge Hornero, Oscar Fernandez,Ana Zelaya, Lizángela Huallpara. 
  Investigación & Desarrollo, Vol. 20, No. 1, pág. 23 – 39, 2020.

 

• DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND EVALUATION OF A ROTATING BIOLOGICAL CONTRACTOR (RBC) SYSTEM FOR MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT AT PILOT SCALE (2020)
  Ivette Echeverría, Oliver Saavedra, Ramiro Escalera, Gustavo Heredia, Renato Montoya. 
  Investigación & Desarrollo, Vol. 20, No. 1, pág. 41 – 49, 2020.

 

• EVALUATION OF A DOMESTIC WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AT AN INTERMEDIATE CITY IN COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA (2019)

O. Saavedra, R. Escalera, G. Heredia, R. Montoya, I. Echeverría, A. Villarroel, L. Brito
Water Practice and Technology

 

• DOMESTIC WASTEWATER TREATED BY ANAEROBIC BAFFLED REACTORS AND GRAVEL FILTERS AS A RESOURCE TO BE USED IN AGRICULTURE (2019)

Ivette Echeverría, Laura Machicado, Oliver Saavedra, Ramiro Escalera, Gustavo Heredia y Renato Montoya
Investigación & Desarrollo,  Vol. 19, No. 1: 63 – 72, 2019

 

• PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF SPOUTED BEDS WITH NON-POROUS CYLINDRICAL DRAFT-TUBES APPLIED TO SAPONINS REMOVAL FROM BITTER QUINOA GRAINS (2019)

Mirea Flores, Ramiro Escalera y Carla Quiroga
Investigación & Desarrollo No. 19, Vol. 1, pág. 43 – 61, 2019

 

• ELECTROCHEMICAL OXIDATION OF SYNTHETIC ORGANIC DYES BY FERRATE (VI), USING COMMERCIAL STEEL WOOL ELECTRODES (2108)

Ramiro Escalera Vásquez, Uli Hosse Pastor, Pablo Pérez García
Investigación & Desarrollo No. 18, Vol. 1, pág. 5 – 15, 2018

 

• ASSESMENT OF A NOVEL METHOD FOR DRY PROCESSING OF CANIHUA (Chenopodium pallidicaule Aellen) GRAIN, BASED ON THE APPLICATION OF A SPOUTED BED (2018)

C. C. Quiroga Ledezma, A. J. Ortíz Mérida y C. R. Escalera Vásquez 
Investigación & Desarrollo Vol. 18, No. 1, pág. 17-34, 2018

 

• WATER CHEMISTRY OF NATURALLY OCCURRING ARSENIC IN GROUNDWATER OF THE SUBURBAN AREAS OF COCHABAMBA-BOLIVIA AND TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY EVALUATION OF ARSENIC REMOVAL PROCESSES (2017)

Ramiro Escalera Vásquez y Mauricio Ormachea Muñoz
Investigación & Desarrollo No 17, Vol. 1, pág. 27 – 41, 2017

 

• EXPERIENCES REVIEW IN DOMESTIC WASTEWATER TREATMENT THROUGH UASB REACTORS IN COCHABAMBA-BOLIVIA COMPARED TO LATIN AMERICA, INDIA AND EUROPE

Vanessa Gandarillas R., Oliver Saavedra, Ramiro Escalera, Renato Montoya
Investigación & Desarrollo, No. 17, Vol. 1, pág. 83 – 98, 2017

 

• DEGRADATION OF SYNTHETIC ORGANIC DYES IN SOLUTION BY FERRATE – HYPOCHLORITE OR CALCIUM HYPOCHLORITE

Pablo Marcelo Pérez García, Sandra L. Ibáñez-Calero and Ramiro Escalera Vásquez
Investigación & Desarrollo No 17, Vol. 1, pág. 43 – 53, 2017

 

• ARSENIC REMOVAL IN GROUNDWATERS CONTAINING LOW IRON CONCENTRATIONS BY COMMERCIAL MICROFILTERS

Ramiro Escalera Vásquez
Investigación & Desarrollo No. 16, Vol. 1, pág. 39-48, 2016

 

• NUTRITIONAL EVALUATION OF FATTYACIDS CONTAINED IN OIL FROM PALQUI SEEDS (Acacia feddeana Harms)

R. Escalera y F. Caba
Investigación & Desarrollo No. 15, Vol. 1, pág. 13-18, 2015

 

• PECTIN EXTRACTION FROM ORANGE PEELS WASTE BY MICROWAVE ASISTED ACID HYDROLISIS (MWAH)

V. Zegada
Investigación & Desarrollo No. 15, Vol. 1, pág. 65-77, 2015

 

• THE 2013 STATE OF THE WORLD'S QUINOA

CHAPTER 3.1: Traditional processes and Technological Innovations in Quinoa Harvesting, Milling and Industrial Processing
C. Quiroga*, R. Escalera*, G. Aroni**, A. Bonifacio**, J. A. Gonzales***, M. Villca**, R. Saravia**, A. Ruiz****
* Universidad Privada Boliviana, Av. Capitán Víctor Ustariz km 6,5 Cochabamba – Bolivia
** Fundación para la Promoción e Investigación de Productos Andinos, Av. Meneces km 4, Cochabamba - Bolivia
*** Fundación Miguel Lillo, Miguel Lillo 251 (4000) Tucumán - Argentina
**** Centro de Promoción de Tecnologías Sostenibles, c. Prolongación Cordero 220 La Paz – Bolivia

 

• MINIMIZATION OF CHROME RESIDUES IN THE SKIN TANNING

C. R. Escalera, L. Arteaga, R. Vega
Memorias del XXVII Congreso Interamericano y Colombiano de Ingeniería Química, “Optimización de Procesos y Recursos para un Desarrollo Sostenible”, Parte 2, Asociación Colombiana de Ingeniería Química y Profesiones Afines, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, 6-8 de Octubre, 2014, pp. 1104-1111. ISBN: 978-958-58438-0-6

 

• NATURAL OCCURENCE OF ARSENIC IN DEEP WATER WELLS AND ITS REMOVAL USING A PILOT PLANT BASED ON LOW COST SOLAR COLLECTORS

R. Escalera, M. Ormachea, O. Ormachea y M. Heredia
Investigación & Desarrollo # 14, Vol. 2, pág. 85 -93, 2014

 

• MINIMIZING CHROME WASTES APPLYING DIRECT RECYCLING OF PICKLING-TANNING LIQUORS IN LEATHER PROCESSING

R. Escalera, L. Arteaga y R. Vega
Investigación & Desarrollo No, 13, Vol. 1, pag. 13-23, 2013

 

• NATURAL ARSENIC OCCURRENCE AND ITS REMOVAL FROM DRINKING WATER USING A TUBULAR PHOTO-REACTOR ENHANCED WITH A SOLAR CONCENTRATOR IN COCHABAMBA, BOLIVIA (2012)

          M. Ormachea, L. Huallpara, J. Quintanilla, O. Ormachea, R. Escalera and Bhattacharya

Proceedings of the 4th International Congress on Arsenic in the Environment, 22-27 July 2012, Cairns, Australia

 

• SOLAR OXIDATION AND REMOVAL OF ARSENIC FROM GROUNDWATER UTILIZING A SEMICIRCULAR SECTION TUBULAR (2012)

R. Escalera y O. Ormachea
Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering A 1 (2012), 1071-1082

 

• FORMATION OF ANAEROBIC GRANULES WITHOUT INOCULATED SLUDGE IN A HEAT EXCHANGER TYPE ANAEROBIC BIOFILM REACTOR (2012)

R. Escalera
Investigación&Desarrollo No. 12, Vol. 1, pág. 14-22, 2012

 

• OPTIMIZATION OF SPECIFIC ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN THE DRY BENEFICIAL PROCESS OF BITTER VARIETIES OF QUINOA, BASED ON THE APPLICATION OF A FLUIDIZED SOURCE TYPE BED (2011)

M. Obando, R. Escalera, C. Quiroga y L. Arteaga
Investigación & Desarrollo No 11, Vol. 1, pág. 5-19, 2011

 

• RECOVERY OF SOLID WASTE WITH HIGH CONCENTRATION OF SAPONINS FROM THE DRY BENEFICIAL PROCESS OF GRAIN QUINUA AMARGA, THROUGH THE APPLICATION OF A SOURCE TYPE FLUIDIZED BED (2011)

C. Subieta, C. Quiroga, R. Escalera y L. Arteaga
Investigación & Desarrollo No. 11, Vol. 1, pág. 20-36, 2011

 

• REMOVAL OF ARSENIC ASSISTED BY UV SOLAR OXIDATION (RAOS) IN TUBULAR PHOTO-REACTORS OF SEMICIRCULAR SECTION - KINETICS OF FLOCK GROWTH OF Fe (OH) - (2011)

R. Escalera, O. Ormachea, N. Casanovas, M. Ormachea y L. Huallpara
Investigación & Desarrollo No. 11, Vol. 1, pág. 37-45, 2011

 

• SOLAR UV RADIATION ASSISTED As(V) REMOVAL (SORAS) FROM GROUND WATERS BY MEANS OF A SEMI-CIRCULAR SECTION TUBULAR PHOTO-REACTOR (2010)

R. Escalera and O. Ormachea
https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2010AM/finalprogram/abstract_179979.htm

• DEVELOPMENT AND PERFORMANCE OF A DRY BENEFICIAL PROCESS OF BITTER VARIETIES OF QUINOA BASED ON THE APPLICATION OF A FLUIDIZED SOURCE TYPE BED (2010)

Ramiro Escalera, Carla Quiroga y Luis Arteaga
Investigación & Desarrollo No. 10, Vol. 1, pág. 5-22, 2010

 

• DEVELOPMENT OF A COLORED TEXTILE WASTE WATER RECYCLING SYSTEM THROUGH THE USE OF A SOLAR PHOTOREACTOR (2010)

Andrés Zaconeta y Ramiro Escalera
Investigación & Desarrollo No. 10, Vol. 1, pág. 37-48, 2010

 

• REMOVAL OF ARSENIC (V) ASSISTED BY SOLAR UV OXIDATION IN A TUBULAR PHOTO-REACTOR OF CIRCULAR SECTION (2009)

Ramiro Escalera y Omar Ormachea
Investigación & Desarrollo No. 9, Vol. 1, pág. 58-70, 2009

 

• MODELLING OF A SO2 CONVERTER (2008)

Luis Arteaga y Santiago Zegada
Investigación & Desarrollo No 8, Vol. 1, pág. 108-130, 2008

 

• SIMULATION OF THE START-UP OF AN ANAEROBIC BIOFILM REACTOR TYPE OF HEAT EXCHANGER (2008)

Ramiro Escalera Vasquez
Investigación & Desarrollo No. 8, Vol. 1, pág. 99-107, 2008

 

• OBTAINING OF CARBOXIMETILCELULOSA FROM COTTON LINTER (2007)

Elizabeth Terán Rocha y Ramiro Escalera Vasquez
Investigación & Desarrollo No. 7, Vol. 1, pág. 107-120, 2007

 

• VALUATION OF THE YACÓN ROOT: OBTAINING A SYRUP RICH IN FRUCTOOLIGOSACÁRIDOS (2007)

Diana Lizeth López Torrez
Investigación & Desarrollo No. 7, Vol. 1, pág. 93-106, 2007

 

• MINING POLLUTION IN BOLIVIA: ALTERNATIVES FOR REMEDIATION OF ACID WATERS (2007)

Ramiro Escalera Vasquez
Investigación & Desarrollo No. 7, Vol. 1, pág. 83-92, 2007

 

• STUDY ON THE QUALITY OF SURFACE WATER RESOURCES IN THE PILCOMAYO RIVER BASIN AND ITS RELATION TO THE IMPACTS OF MINING, OIL, URBAN OR OTHER ACTIVITY (2006)

Ramiro Escalera
Resumen

 

• TECHNICAL-FINANCIAL STUDY FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A PILOT PLANT FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF BIODIESEL (2006)

Luis Arteaga y Jorge Montaño
Investigación & Desarrollo No. 6, Vol. 1, pág. 105-118, 2006

 

• DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC / COLORIMETRIC METHOD FOR THE DETERMINATION OF CHROME (III) IN RESIDUAL LIQUORS OF PIQUELADO - CURTIDO (2006)

Ramiro Escalera
Investigación & Desarrollo No. 6, Vol. 1, pág. 95-104, 2006

 

• TREATMENT OF ODORS COMING FROM THE PROCESS OF SAPONIFICATION OF SOYBEANS (2005)

Ramiro Escalera, Ariel Baldivieso, Claudia Villegas, Marianela Cavero
Investigación & Desarrollo No. 5, Vol. 1, pág. 33-52, 2005