Joel L Cuello

Joel L Cuello

Professor, Agricultural-Biosystems Engineering
Professor, Applied BioSciences - GIDP
Professor, Arid Lands Resources Sciences - GIDP
Member of the Graduate Faculty
Professor, BIO5 Institute
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Contact
(520) 621-7757

Research Interest

Joel Cuello, PhD, focuses his research on applying engineering to put biological systems to work. His collaborative research projects, which have been sponsored by DOE, NASA and USDA, among others, are divided into two major thrusts: Bioprocess Engineering and Controlled-Environment Engineering.With bioprocess engineering, Dr. Cuello’s concentrations are on design and scale up of bioreactors for production of biofuels and biochemicals from algae, plant cells and organs. Also, he explores the optimization of algae and cell-culture productivity through biochemical and environmental strategies. Also, he attends to wastewater treatment using algae, microbial mat and hydroponics.In regard to controlled-environment engineering, Dr. Cuello’s concentrations -- for both Earth and Space applications -- are on design of novel lighting systems, including hybrid solar-electric lighting systems, light-emitting diode arrays, and water-cooled high-intensity discharge lamps. He complements this work with trying to design bioproduction systems, including a hybrid hydroponics-and-aquaculture system.

Publications

Cuello, J. L., Cid-Aguero, P., Ruiz, S., & Sanchez, G. (2017). Growth and lipid profiles of the Antarctic snow microalga Chlamydomonas sp. in response to changes in temperature, photoperiod, salinity and substrate. Annals of the Institute of Patagonia (Anales Instituto Patagonia), 45(3), 45-58.
Borines, M. G., De Leon, R. L., & Cuello, J. L. (2013). Bioethanol production from the macroalgae Sargassum spp.. Bioresource Technology, 138, 22-29.
Cuello, J. L., Gue, I. H., Ubando, A. T., & Culaba, A. B. (2017). A comparative assessment for algal biodiesel production in the Philippines. Humanitarian Technology Conference (IHTC), 2017 IEEE Canada International. IEEE Xplore.. doi:DOI: 10.1109/IHTC.2017.8058177
Cuello, J. L. (2014). Multi-Criterion Evaluation of Cultivation Systems for Sustainable Algal Biofuel Production using Analytic Hierarchy Process and Monte Carlo Simulation. Energy Procedia, 61, 389-392.

Ubando, A.T., Cuello, J.L., Culaba, A.B., Promentilla, M.A.B., Tan, R.R. 2014. Multi-Criterion Evaluation of Cultivation Systems for Sustainable Algal Biofuel Production using Analytic Hierarchy Process and Monte Carlo Simulation. Energy Procedia. 61:389-392. Refereed.

Mayol, A., Ubando, A., Cuello, J., & Culaba, A. (2016). Hydrodynamic Analysis of the Accordion Photobioreactor for Microalgae Cultivation using Computational Dynamics Analysis. Journal of Computational Innovations and Engineering Applications, 1(1), 85-89.