Membranes for Clean and Renewable Power Applications

Annarosa Gugliuzza works at the Institute on Membrane Technology-Italian National Research Council (ITM-CNR), Italy. Angelo Basile, officially qualified as a Full Professor at university in the subject "Sistems, Methods and Technologies of the Chemical Engineering Processes", until 2020 was a senior researcher at the Italian National Research Council (CNR), wherein he developed membranes for gas purification and membrane reactors for pure hydrogen production. His prolific research works have been published in numerous papers and conference proceedings, and he has also produced various Italian (8), European (3 )and worldwide (1)patents. Basile has edited more than 60 scientific books and 60 special journal issues on membrane science and technology. He is an associate editor of various international journals (like IJHE) and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Membrane Science & Technology; and member of the editorial board of more 20 int. journals. Angelo Basile's h-index 51, on the areas: Energy, Chem. Eng., Env. Science, Materials Science, Chemistry, (www.scopus.com - 21 March 2022). Today Basile is a R&D Manager at ECO2Energy (Rome) and Hydrogenia (Genoa), both societies under the umbrella of the European society Greeninvest; he also is offcially collaborating with the Dept. of Eng. at the University Campus Bio-medical of Rome.

Part 1 Introduction: An introduction to the utilization of membrane technology in the production of clean and renewable power; Combining membrane processes with renewable energy technologies: Perspectives on membrane desalination, biofuels and biogas production, and microbial fuel cells. Part 2 Membranes for biofuel production and processing: Membrane processes for biofuel separation: an introduction; Membranes and membrane reactors for the production of second generation biofuels; Membrane reactors for biodiesel production. Part 3 Membranes for syngas, hydrogen and oxygen production and processing: Steam reforming of biofuels for the production of hydrogen-rich gas; Perovskite membrane reactors: Fundamentals and applications for oxygen production, syngas production and hydrogen processing; Environmental analysis of hydrogen-methane blends for transportation. Part 4 Membranes for fuel cells: Ceramic membranes for intermediate temperature solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC): state-of-the-art and perspectives; Microbial fuel cells: transformation of wastes into clean energy; Direct bioethanol fuel cells. Part 5 Membranes integrated with solar and wind energy and for water-related applications: Membrane technologies for solar-hydrogen production; Membrane technologies for solar-desalination plants; Membrane technologies for the storage as methane of energy generated by wind power and other renewable sources; Forward osmosis: Introduction and applications for wastewater processing, energy conservation and energy generation.