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. Fausto Gallucci is Full Professor of Inorganic Membranes and Membrane Reactors at the Chemical Engineering and Chemistry department of Eindhoven University of Technology/ Netherlands. In the last 10 years responsible of around 30 projects on membranes, membrane reactors and integrated reactors. His research is related to development of membranes and novel multiphase reactors, in particular membrane reactors and dynamically operated reactors. His research focuses on the interaction of heterogeneous catalysis, transport phenomena, and fluid mechanics in these novel multifunctional reactors. Particularly interesting application areas are methanol production in zeolite and carbon membranes, methane activation with oxygen selective membranes, the Fischer-Tropsch reaction in carbon-based membrane reactors, and hydrogen production by reforming/dehydrogenation reactions with hydrogen selective membranes. Since 2020 Gallucci is Dean of the department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology and Chairman of the Sustainable Process Engineering group.

• Part 1: Preparation and characterization of metallic membranes1. Supported and self-supported Pd membranes2. Ni-, V-, Nb-based membranes3. Other metal membranes: pore-plated membranes, Cermet like membranes, etc.4. Mass Transport in Hydrogen Permeation in Pd-based Membranes5. Tortuosity Evaluation of FCC and BCC structure for pure-crystalline metal lattice characterization6. Role of strain and legant effect in H2 production on bimetallic Pd/M (M late transition FCC metals) alloys7. A general overview of hydrogen embrittlement8. An overview of the effect of poisoning on metallic membranes9. Degradation of metallic membranes10. H2S resistance Pd-based membranes11. Amorphous metal membranesPart 2: Metallic membrane reactors - applications and simulations12. Membrane reactor – types13. Micro metallic membranes (include hollow fiber metallic membranes and other types)14. Membrane reactors for hydrogen production15. Energy analysis of innovative systems with metallic membranes16. Industrial perspectives of membrane reactors17. General aspects of simulation of metallic membrane reactors18. Economic evaluation of metallic membrane reactors19. An overview of the last recent European Projects on metallic membranes