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. Kamran Ghasemzadeh is currently working as a senior research associate at the chemical engineering department, University of Manchester, UK since August 2022. At the same time, he has served as an associate professor in the chemical engineering department at Urmia University of Technology, Iran, wherein he developed research on membranes/membrane reactors for many processes. Kamran Ghasemzadeh’s h-index = 21, with 126 document results in a total of 1135 citations in the areas: Energy, Chemical Engineering, Environmental Science, and membrane technologies, (www.scopus.com – March 30/2023). He has more than 50 papers published in national/international congresses; and is a reviewer for 70 int. journals, an editor/author of more than 10 scientific books, and 45 chapters on int. books on membrane science and technology. Today Ghasemzadeh is collaborating with the Dept. of chem. Eng. at the University of Manchester (UK) on the valorisation of biomass by-products. He participated in various national and international projects on membrane reactors and membrane science. In the last years, he was the supervisor/co-supervisor of more than 38 Thesis for Master and Ph.D. students. Ghasemzadeh served as Director of the UUT research center during the period Sep. 2018 – April 2022.

• Introduction: Inorganic membranes roles in the industrial applicationsPart A: Silica membrane preparation1. Preparation of silica membranes by sol gel method2. Preparation of silica membranes by CVD method3. Preparation of silica membranes by CVI methodPart B: Theory analysis of silica membranes4. Separation theory of silica membranes5. Molecular dynamic (MD) simulation of silica membranes6. Modeling of silica membranesPart C: Application of silica membranes7. Silica membranes application for water treatment8. Silica membrane application for desalination process9. Silica membrane application for pervaporation process10. Silica membranes application for hydrogen separation11. Silica membranes application for carbon dioxide separation12. Silica membrane reactorPart D: Challenges on commercializing the silica membranes13. Hydrothermal improvement of silica membranes14. Polarization in silica membranes15. Silica membranes sealing in high temperatures