Current Trends and Future Developments on (Bio-) Membranes
Recent Advances in Metallic Membranes

Coordinators: Basile Angelo, Gallucci Fausto

Language: English

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Current Trends and Future Developments in (Bio-) Membranes: Recent Advances in Metallic Membranes presents recent developments in metallic membranes used in membrane reactors to save energy. It also offers a comprehensive review of the present state-of-the-art on the fabrication and design of metallic membranes and membrane reactors, considering various applications. This book focuses on the structure, preparation, characterization and applications of metallic membranes and membrane reactors, as well as transport mechanisms and simulation aspects. As recent research has focused on the development of metallic membranes and their applications, this book is an ideal reference on different production procedures and their use.

Part 1: Preparation and characterization of metallic membranes 1. Supported and self-supported Pd membranes 2. Ni-, V-, Nb-based membranes 3. Other metal membranes: pore-plated membranes, Cermet like membranes, etc. 4. Mass Transport in Hydrogen Permeation in Pd-based Membranes 5. Tortuosity Evaluation of FCC and BCC structure for pure-crystalline metal lattice characterization 6. Role of strain and legant effect in H2 production on bimetallic Pd/M (M late transition FCC metals) alloys 7. A general overview of hydrogen embrittlement 8. An overview of the effect of poisoning on metallic membranes 9. Degradation of metallic membranes 10. H2S resistance Pd-based membranes 11. Amorphous metal membranes

Part 2: Metallic membrane reactors - applications and simulations 12. Membrane reactor – types 13. Micro metallic membranes (include hollow fiber metallic membranes and other types) 14. Membrane reactors for hydrogen production 15. Energy analysis of innovative systems with metallic membranes 16. Industrial perspectives of membrane reactors 17. General aspects of simulation of metallic membrane reactors 18. Economic evaluation of metallic membrane reactors 19. An overview of the last recent European Projects on metallic membranes

This book is a key reference text for R&D managers in industry interested in the development of metallic membrane and inorganic membrane reactors as well as academic researchers and postgraduate students working in the wider area of the membrane processes to energy conversion

Angelo Basile, a Chemical Engineer with Ph.D. in Technical Physics, is author of hundreds of papers, books, chapter-books, and Special Issues in the field of Membrane Science and Technology, with also various Italian, European and worldwide patents. He is an Associate Editor of various int. journals (IJHE, APCEJ, etc), Editor-in-Chief of the Int. J. Membrane Sci. & Techn., and member of the Editorial Board of more 25 int. journals. Today Basile is working at General TAG, Via Mastri Ligornettesi n. 28, Ligornetto 6853 – Switzerland.


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.
  • Reviews metallic membranes research and applications
  • Outlines the mechanisms of metallic membrane based processes
  • Includes structure, preparation, characterization and properties of metallic membranes
  • Highlights various applications of metallic membranes in energy production