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Sustainable Development Goals

Research interests

• (Bio)-chemical process control
• (Bio)-chemical process analysis and diagnosis
• (Bio)-chemical process modeling and simulation
• Energy efficiency using process optimization

Profile

Professor Héctor Fernando Puebla Núñez has a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from UASLP. M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Science (Chemical Engineering) from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Iztapalapa Campus. Postdoctoral stay at IMP from 2002-2003. Research Scientist at IMP from 2003-2006. Professor at UAM Azcapotzalco Campus since 2006.

He has about 60 scientific papers published in high impact scientific journals, one teaching book, eight book chapters, and more than 100 extended proceedings in national and international conferences of high diffusion. Most of these papers deal with process analysis and control in engineering. About 500 citations to previous works (H factor of 15). Director of 25 graduate theses (7 in the process), 28 terminal projects, and researcher responsible for six research projects funded by IMP, CONACYT, and PROMEP. Member of the SNI since 2004 (Level 2 since 2011 and until 2024) and PROMEP profile (2006-2021).

Head of the Consolidated Academic group of Process Analysis of the Azcapotzalco Campus since 2007. Head of the Process Analysis Area from 2007-2012. Founder (2009-2011) and Coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Process Engineering (2012-2019) at UAM. Member of the Mexican Association of Automatic Control 2011-2013. Founding member of the Mexican Academy of Energy (2015).

Associate Editor of the journal Mathematical Problems in Engineering (Indexed in Journal Citation Reports) from 2012 to 2014. President of the technical committee of the International Energy Congress 2015. Member of the technical committee of congresses AMIDIQ, AMCA, BIOMAT, CIE. Member of different evaluation and academic planning committees of the DCBI of UAM Azcapotzalco Campus. Regular referee of several international journals. Regular reviewer of graduate thesis and projects and of the PNPC and Basic Science of CONACyT. Member of the Steering and Technical Committees of the National Institute for Nuclear Research (ININ) since 2019.

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Research interests

• (Bio)-chemical process control
• (Bio)-chemical process analysis and diagnosis
• (Bio)-chemical process modeling and simulation
• Energy efficiency using process optimization

Academic Work

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Open Access	References	UN SDGs
OA	Velasco-Pérez, A., Vian, J., Puebla, H. and 7 more (...) (2026).Effects of Substrate Composition, S/I Ratio, and Particle Size on Food Waste Anaerobic Digestion Using a Modified ADM1-R3 Model. Fermentation,12(6)
OA	Avilés-Cruz, C., Magos-Rivera, M., Jäckel, R. and 2 more (...) (2025).Deep learning model for flow regime identification in mixing tanks from pressure signals. Flow Measurement and Instrumentation,106
OA	Vigueras-Carmona, S.E., Velasco-Pérez, A., Montes-García, M.M. and 3 more (...) (2025).Particle Size Effect on Biodegradability and Kinetics During Anaerobic Digestion of Fruit and Vegetable Waste. Processes,13(4)
	Marin-Lopez, A., Martínez-Cadena, J.A., Soto-Cortes, G. and 2 more (...) (2025).Non-linear Analysis of Two-Phase Flow Fluctuation by Means of SVD Entropy Surrogate Data Analysis. Fluctuation and Noise Letters,24(4)
OA	Vian, J., Velasco-Pérez, A., Solar-González, R. and 3 more (...) (2024).Particle Size Effect on Anaerobic Digestion of Fruit and Vegetable Waste. Fermentation,10(9)
OA	Rodríguez-Jara, M., Velasco-Pérez, A., Vian, J. and 2 more (...) (2023).Robust Control Based on Modeling Error Compensation of Microalgae Anaerobic Digestion. Fermentation,9(1)	7\|15
	Moguel-Castañeda, J.G., Gomez-Rodriguez, R., Puebla, H. and 1 more (...) (2023).Temperature sensor location for the implementation of cascade control schemes in distillation columns: an approach based on multiscale time series analysis. International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering,21(11) 1337-1349
	Rodriguez-Jara, M., Ramírez-Castelan, C.E., Samano-Perfecto, Q. and 2 more (...) (2023).Robust control designs for microalgae cultivation in continuous photobioreactors. International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering,21(4) 521-535	7\|13\|15
OA	Lara-Musule, A., Alvarez-Sanchez, E., Trejo-Aguilar, G. and 3 more (...) (2021).Diagnosis and monitoring of volatile fatty acids production from raw cheese whey by multiscale time-series analysis. Applied Sciences (Switzerland),11(13)	7\|9\|12
OA	Flores-Mejia, H., Lara-Musule, A., Hernández-Martínez, E. and 2 more (...) (2021).Indirect monitoring of anaerobic digestion for cheese whey treatment. Processes,9(3)	6
	Rodriguez-Jara, M., Flores-Mejia, H., Velasco-Perez, A. and 1 more (...) (2021).Robust Control Framework Based on Input-Output Models Enhanced with Uncertainty Estimation. Studies in Informatics and Control,30(1) 99-108
	Moguel-Castañeda, J.G., Romero-Bustamante, J.A., Velazquez-Camilo, O. and 2 more (...) (2021).Diagnosis of the Cane Sugar Crystallization Process by Multifractal Analysis of Temperature Time Series. Chemical Engineering and Technology,44(11) 2064-2072
	Zenteno-Catemaxca, R., Moguel-Castañeda, J.G., Rivera, V.M. and 2 more (...) (2021).Monitoring a chemical reaction using pH measurements: An approach based on multiscale fractal analysis. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals,152
	Moguel-Castañeda, J.G., Rocha-Lara, C.E., Ramirez-Castelan, C.E. and 3 more (...) (2021).Two-phase flow-patterns identification in oil/gas pipelines based on fractal analysis. Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering,99(4) 874-883
	Hernández-Pérez, M.A., Fragoso-Rubio, V., Velasco-Villa, M. and 3 more (...) (2020).Prediction-based control for a class of unstable time-delayed processes by using a modified sequential predictor. Journal of Process Control,9298-107
	Vian, J., Vigueras-Carmona, S.E., Velasco-Pérez, A. and 1 more (...) (2020).A novel up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket solid-state reactor for the treatment of fruit and vegetable waste. Environmental Engineering Science,37(5) 373-381	11
	Moguel-Castañeda, J.G., Puebla, H., Méndez-Acosta, H.O. and 1 more (...) (2020).Modeling pH and temperature effects on the anaerobic treatment of tequila vinasses. Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology,95(7) 1953-1961	6
	Vian, J., Vigueras-Carmona, S.E., Velasco-Perez, A. and 2 more (...) (2020).Hydrodynamics of a modified up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor treating organic fraction of municipal solids waste. International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering,18(7)	11\|12
	Piceno-Díaz, E.R., Ricardez-Sandoval, L.A., Gutierrez-Limon, M.A. and 2 more (...) (2020).Robust Nonlinear Model Predictive Control for Two-Stage Anaerobic Digesters. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research,59(52) 22559-22572
	Moguel-Castañeda, J.G., González-Salomón, M., Hernández-Garciá, H. and 3 more (...) (2020).Effect of organic loading rate on anaerobic digestion of raw cheese whey: Experimental evaluation and mathematical modeling. International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering,18(7)	7\|12

Courses taught by the professor in recent trimesters

*Courses are conducted in spanish

Num.	Trim.	Course Name	Level
1	26P	Optimización y Control de Procesos	Posgrado
2	26P	Redacción Científica	Posgrado
3	26P	Fenómenos de Transporte	Licenciatura
4	26I	Simulación y Control de Procesos	Licenciatura
5	26I	Reactores Heterogéneos	Licenciatura
6	25O	Simulación y Control de Procesos	Licenciatura
7	25O	Fenómenos de Transporte	Licenciatura
8	25O	Métodos Matemáticos y Numéricos en Ingeniería de Procesos	Posgrado
9	25P	Fenómenos de Transporte	Licenciatura
10	25P	Simulación y Control de Procesos	Licenciatura
11	25I	Reactores Heterogéneos	Licenciatura
12	25I	Simulación y Control de Procesos	Licenciatura
13	24O	Optimización y Control de Procesos	Posgrado
14	24O	Fenómenos de Transporte	Licenciatura
15	24O	Simulación y Control de Procesos	Licenciatura
16	24P	Simulación y Control de Procesos	Licenciatura
17	24P	Optimización y Control de Procesos	Posgrado
18	24P	Reactores Heterogéneos	Licenciatura
19	24I	Simulación y Control de Procesos	Licenciatura
20	24I	Métodos Matemáticos y Numéricos en Ingeniería de Procesos	Posgrado
21	24I	Reactores Heterogéneos	Licenciatura
22	23O	Reactores Homogéneos	Licenciatura
23	23O	Optimización y Control de Procesos	Posgrado
24	23O	Simulación y Control de Procesos	Licenciatura
25	23P	Reactores Heterogéneos	Licenciatura
26	23P	Control Avanzado de Procesos	Posgrado
27	23I	Optimización y Control de Procesos	Posgrado
28	23I	Simulación y Control de Procesos	Licenciatura
29	22O	Simulación y Control de Procesos	Licenciatura
30	22P	Control Avanzado de Procesos	Posgrado
31	22P	Simulación y Control de Procesos	Licenciatura
32	22P	Simulación y Control de Procesos	Licenciatura
33	22I	Optimización y Control de Procesos	Posgrado
34	22I	Reactores Heterogéneos	Licenciatura
35	22I	Simulación y Control de Procesos	Licenciatura

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