Current Trends and Future Developments on (Bio-) Membranes

Angelo Basile, a Chemical Engineer, is a senior Researcher at the ITM-CNR where he is responsible for research related to both the ultra-pure hydrogen production and CO2 capture using Pd-based Membrane Reactors. As of 2014, he also holds a full professor of Chemical Engineering Processes. Professor Basile’s h-index is 42, with 258 document results, cited by 2279 documents and 4478 total citations in the subject area: Energy, Chemical Engineering, Materials Science, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Engineering (www.scopus.com – Feb. 15, 2018). He has 140 scientific papers in peer to peer journals and 230 papers in international congresses; editor/author of more than 40 scientific books and 100 chapters on international books on membrane science and technology; 6 Italian patents, 2 European patents and 5 worldwide patents. He is referee of 116 int. scientific journals and Member of the Editorial Board of 22 of them. Professor Basile is also Editor associate of the Int. J. Hydrogen Energy and of the Asia-Pacific J. Chem. Eng., moreover Editor-in.-chief of the Int. J. Membrane Science & Technol. and Editor-in-chief of Membrane Processes (Applications), a section of the international journal Membranes. Professor Basile also prepared 25 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. Professor 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).

Dr. Kamran Ghasemzadeh is working as an Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering Department, Urmia university of Technology (Urmia, Iran). He received his PhD degree in Sahand University of Technology (Tabriz, Iran) and he worked as researcher in Nano material research center (NMRC) for several years. Also, he has research cooperation with ITM-CNR (Italy) about hydrogen production using inorganic MR (Pd-based MR and silica MR) for several years. He has made some important contributions to the materials and devices for sustainable clean energy by inorganic membrane reactors, pure hydrogen production, natural gas conversion, Gas separation by membrane, inorganic membrane synthesis such silica membrane synthesis, modeling of membrane reactor performance and separation processes, etc. He totally published >40 papers, specially >10 research papers about silica membrane/membrane reactor, filed >5 patents. Moreover, he has published around 10 chapters on international books on membrane science and technology.