Membrane Reactors for Energy Applications and Basic Chemical Production

Angelo Basile, a Chemical Engineer, is a senior Researcher at the ITM-CNR, University of Calabria, where he is responsible for research related to both the ultra-pure hydrogen production and CO2 capture using Pd-based Membrane Reactors. Angelo Basile's h-index is 53, with 387 document results with a total of 8,910 citations in 5,034 documents (www.scopus.com – 24 May 2023). He has more than 170 scientific papers in peer-to-peer journals and 252 papers in international congresses; and is a reviewer for 165 int. journals, an editor/author of more than 50 scientific books and 120 chapters on international books on membrane science and technology; 6 Italian patents, 2 European patents and 5 worldwide patents. He is referee of 104 international scientific journals and Member of the Editorial Board of 22 of them. Basile is also Editor associate of the Int. J. Hydrogen Energy and Editor-in-chief of the Int. J. Membrane Science & Technol. and Editor-in-chief of Membrane Processes (Applications), a section of the Intl J. Membranes. Basile also prepared 42 special issues on membrane science and technology for many international journals (IJHE, Chem Eng. J., Cat. Today, etc.). He participated to and was/is responsible of many national and international projects on membrane reactors and membrane science. Basile served as Director of the ITM-CNR during the period Dec. 2008 – May 2009. In the last years, he was tutor of 30 Thesis for master and Ph.D. students at the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Calabria (Italy). From 2014, Basile is Full Professor of Chemical Engineering Processes. Vincenzo Piemonte is an associate professor at the University “Campus Bio-medico” of Rome (academic courses: Artificial Organs Engineering, Biorefinery Fundamentals, Chemical Engineering Principles, Bioreactors) and an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering of the University “La Sapienza” of Rome (academic course: Artificial Organs Engineering). His research activity is primarily focused on the study of Transport phenomena in the artificial and bioartificial organs; new biotreatment technology platform for the elimination of toxic pollutants from water and soil; Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of petroleum-based plastics and bio-based plastics; extraction of valuable substances (polyphenols, tannins) from natural matrices; hydrogen production by membrane reactors for water gas shift reaction; concentrated Solar Power Plant integrated with membrane steam reforming reactor for the production of hydrogen and hydro-methane. He has about 120 publications on chemical thermodynamics, kinetics, biomedical devices modeling, Bioreactors, LCA studies.

Preface Part 1 Membrane reactors for syngas and hydrogen production 1 Water gas shift membrane reactors (Iulianelli and Basile) 2 Membrane reactors for methane steam reforming (MSR) (Basile) 3 Membrane reactors for autothermal reforming of methane, methanol and ethanol (Gallucci) 4 Membrane reactors for dry reforming of methane (Chakraborty) 5 Membrane reactors for hydrogen production from coal (Lin) 6 Membrane reactors for the conversion of methanol and ethanol to hydrogen (Basile) 7 Membrane reactors for the decomposition of H2O, NOx and CO2 to produce hydrogen (Ghasemzadeh) 8 Membrane reactors for steam reforming of glycerol and acetic acid to produce hydrogen (Basile) 9 Membrane reactors for biohydrogen production and processing (Di Paola) Part II Membrane reactors for other energy applications 10 Membrane reactors for biodiesel production and processing (Rahmipour) 11 Membrane reactors for bioethanol production and processing (Hai) 12 Membrane reactors for biogas production and processing (Uemiya) 13 The use of membranes in oxygen and hydrogen separation in integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plants (Chiesa) 14 Membrane reactors for the desulfurization of power plant gas emissions and transportation fuels (Yang) 15 Electrocatalytic membrane reactors (eCMRs) for fuel cell and other applications (Datta) Part III Membrane reactors for basic chemical production 16 Membrane reactors for the dehydrogenation of alkanes to alkenes (Itoh) 17 Membrane reactors for oxidative coupling of methane to produce syngas and other chemicals (Takamura) 18 Membrane reactors for ammonia production (Irvine) 19 Pervaporation membrane reactors (PVMRs) for esterification (Van Der Bruggen) 20 Photocatalytic hydrogenation of organic compounds in membrane reactors (Molinari) 21 Butene oligomerisation, phenol synthesis from benzene, butane partial oxidation and other reactions carried out in membrane reactors (Rahimpour)