Current Trends and Future Developments on (Bio-) Membranes

Angelo Basile, a Chemical Engineer with a Ph.D. in Technical Physics, was a senior Researcher at the ITM-CNR as a responsible for the research related to both ultra-pure hydrogen production and CO2 capture using Pd-based Membrane Reactors. He is a reviewer for 165 int. journals, an editor/author of more than 50 scientific books and 140 chapters on international books on membrane science and technology; with various patens (7 Italian, 2 European, and 1 worldwide). He is a referee of 1more than 150 international scientific journals and a Member of the Editorial Board of more than 20 of them. Basile is also an associate editor of the: Int. J. Hydrogen Energy; Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Eng.; journal Frontiers in Membrane Science and Technology; and co-Editor-in-chief of the Int. J. Membrane Science & Technol. Giuseppe Spazzafumo is associate professor at University of Cassino and Southern Lazio (Italy) and CEO at EnTraT srls. Author of more than 100 scientific papers mainly focused on hydrogen energy systems, fuel cell systems, and power to gas, Dr. Spazzafumo is also editor or co-author of four books. He has been invited as a plenary speaker to several international conferences and was a member of scientific committees at many international conferences. He was the scientific coordinator of some research activities financed by ENEA, ENEL, APAT, Italian Ministry of Research and obtained 4 Italian patents. He is a member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Vice President for Conferences of the International Association for hydrogen Energy.

• 1. Cogeneration plants for district heating (and cooling)2. The application of membranes in district energy systems3. Impact assessment of exhaust gas emissions from cogeneration PEMFC systems4. Conventional systems for exhaust gas cleaning and carbon capture and sequestration5. Development of membrane technologies for exhaust gas cleaning and carbon capture and sequestration6. Life Cycle Assessment of tri-generation plants7. Residential cogeneration and trigeneration8. Integrated membrane-assisted reforming in fuel processors for cogeneration applications9. Residential cogeneration and trigeneration with fuel cells10. Solar reformers coupled with PEMFCs for residential cogeneration and trigeneration applications11. Conventional syngas cleaning systems for low temperature fuel cells12. Development of membrane technologies for H2 production in reforming process for low temperature13. Case study: Economic assesment of co-generation fuel and electricity in an IGCC plant.