Membrane Reactors for Energy Applications and Basic Chemical Production

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. 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.

• PrefacePart 1 Membrane reactors for syngas and hydrogen production1 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 production16 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)