Working%20Party%20on%20Membranes%20of%20the%20European%20Federation%20of%20Chemical%20Engineering

1
Working Party on Membranes of the European
Federation of Chemical Engineering

• Enrico Drioli
• Research Institute on Membrane Technology
• C/o University of Calabria, Via P.Bucci , Cubo
  17/C
• Rende (CS) - Italy

2

• Hystory

The WP on Membranes was created by inviting the
ESMST (now, EMS) to become a member of the EFCE
and to form a nucleus through its chemical
engineers representative The WP had its
inaugural meeting on Jan. 12 1986, in Frankfurt
at the Dechema House
3
The WP on Membranes was established within an
agreement between the EFCE and the
ESMST Nomination of a member for each
represented Country by the National Chemical
Engineering Society (or similar Societies
associated to the Federation) and one by the ESMST
4
   
   
   
   

• Terms of reference

1) The role of Chemical Engineering in the
development of membrane technology, and in
particular of membrane separation processes,
membrane reactors, and integrated membrane
systems. 2) Membrane processes in
rationalizing industrial productions for energy
saving and environmental control.
   
     
 
 
5
Terms of reference (continued)

• 3) An analysis of membrane science in chemical
  engineering education. Actions to promote
  teaching of membranology at various levels.
• 4) Analysis of problems in nomenclature.
  standardizations and legal aspects related to
  membrane technology.

6
Philosophy

• To coordinate and to internationalize research
  and educational activities in membranology of
  interest to chemical engineering.
• To transfer information between academic groups
  and the industrial world
• To pay attention to problems of standardization,
  terminology and legal aspects related to the
  introduction of innovative processes.

7
Chairman
Prof. Enrico Drioli, ITM-CNR, Italy
Secretary
Prof. Dipl. Ing. Dr. Anton Friedl Institut fur
Verfahrens-, Brennstoff- und Umwelttechnik
Osterreich
8
Members
Nineteen Contries are involved AUSTRIA
ITALY SPAIN BELGIUM POLAND
SWEDEN DENMARK  PORTUGAL
SWITZERLAND FINLAND RUSSIA THE
NETHERLANDS FRANCE SERBIA UNITED
KINGDOM GERMANY SLOVAKIA ISRAEL HUNGARY

9
Activities

• Members of the WP have been active in the
  organization of various scientific events
• 1) Summer School on Engineering of Membrane
  Processes, Denmark 1986
• 2) Congress on Membranes and Membrane Processes,
  Tubingen 1986
• 3) Summer School on Ions in Membranes, UK 1987

10
Activities (continued)

• 4) International Congress on Membranes (ICOM
  87), Tokyo 1987
• 5) Ravello Conference, Italy 1988
• 6) International Congress on Membranes (ICOM
  90), Chicago 1990
• 7) The Fifth World Congress on Desalination and
  Water Reuse in Malta, 1991 in cooperation with
  the Working Party on Desalination and Water
  Technology

11
Activities (continued)

• 8) Workshop on Advances Membrane Operations, in
  occasion of the IV World Chem. Eng.
  Conference,1991
• 9) The Membrane Conference at the Twente
  University, The Netherlands 1991
• 10) Conference on Membranes, France 1992
• 11) International Congress on Membranes (ICOM
  '93), Berlin 1993

12
Activities (continued)

• 12) Workshop on Membrane Distillation, Osmotic
  Distillation and Membrane Contactors, Italy 1998
  
• 13) 6th Nordic Filtration Symposium, Finland 2000
  
• 14) CST Workshop on Separation in difficult
  conditions, Finland 2000
• 15) Session on Membrane Processes, CHISA 2000

13
Activities (continued)

• 15) Joint session on Membranes and
  Electrochemical Processes with the WP on
  Electrochemical Engineering, ECCE3, Nuremberg
  2001
• 16) Session on Membrane Engineering, ECCE4,
  Granada 2003
• 17) PERMEA Conference, 2003 (Local organization
  committee at the Slovak University of Technology,
  Laboratory of Membrane Processes,  Bratislava
  (SK) 
• Dr. Štefan Schlosser chairman)

14
Activities (continued)

• Specific meeting of the WP have been held
  generally in parallel to European events
• 1) ECCE 1, Florence 1997
• 2) Euromembrane, 1999
• 3) CHISA 2000
• 4) EMS Workshop, Granada 2001
• 5) ECCE 3, Nuremberg 2001
• 6) ICOM02, Toulouse 2002
• 7) ECCE4, Granada 2003

15
Activities (continued)

• Reports
• 1) International Report on Membrane Science and
  Technology Perspectives and Needs, ICOM02,
  Toulouse 2002
• 2) Report on Membrane Activities in Europe and
  Israel, 2003

16

• An International Report on
• Membranes Science and Technology Perspectives and
  Needs
• prepared and discussed at the International
  Conference on Membranes (ICOM 2002)
• held in Toulouse on July 7 12, 2002
•  
• The report has been prepared by an ad-hoc
  Committee formed by the Scientific Committee of
  ICOM and coordinated by Prof. E. Drioli.

17
(No Transcript)
18

• The collaboration with the European Membrane
  Society has been always very positive and the
  members of the Working Party on Membranes
  attended practically all the events of the EMS
  and viceversa.

19
WP Strategy

• To strongly interact with the other WPs of the
  EFCE by
• 1) Indicating membranologists as possible members
  of these WPs
• 2) Informing all chairmen of the other WPs
  about the activities on membranes (AChEMA, V FP)
• 3) Organising joint scientific events (ECCE 3,
  Nuremberg 2001)

20
Fallout of the activities

• Creation of the Network of Excellence
• NANOMEMPRO
• Partners involved
• 1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
  (France)
• 2. Imperial College of Science, Technology and
  Medicine
• Imperial (UK)
• 3. Instituto de Biologia Experimentale
  Tecnológica (Portugal)
• 4. GKSS Forschungszentrum Geesthacht GmbH
  (Germany)
• 5. Institute of Chemical Engineering and High
  Temperature Chemical Processes- Foundation for
  Research and Technology Hellas (Greece)
• 6. Flemish Institute for Technological Research
  Vito (Belgium)
• 7. The Foundation for Scientific and Industrial
  Research at the Norwegian Institute of Technology
  (Norway)
• 8.University of Twente (The Netherlands)

21
Fallout of the activities

• Creation of the Network of Excellence
• NANOMEMPRO
• Partners involved (continued)
• 9. Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain)
• 10. Lappeenranta University of Technology
  (Finland)
• 11. Istituto per la Tecnologia delle Membrane
  (Italy)
• 12. Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague
  (Checz Republic)
• 13.Technical University of Denmark (Denmark)
• 14. ACIES EUROPE (France)

22
Fallout of the activities

• The members of the Working Party on Membranes
  during these years, often in collaboration with
  the European Membrane Society, have been able to
  follow, and also to anticipate in some cases, the
  development of membrane engineering.
• Their activity has been contributing
  significantly to the increment of the knowledge
  in this field of the chemical and process
  engineering community.