Invited Speaker - Professor Marco Giacinti Baschetti

Marco Giacinti Baschetti is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Material Engineering of the University of Bologna where he entered as a Researcher in the year 2000. During his career, he focused his research activity on the study of mass transport in polymeric materials for applications in the field of gas separation membranes and packaging materials. This research activity was carried out within a different project funded from the Italian government and the European Union, in particular, from 2016 he is coordinating the NANOMEMC2 H2020 project on the development of hybrid membranes for carbon capture applications. The results of Prof. Giacinti Baschetti's scientific activities are published more than 60 papers appeared in international scientific journals and books and presented in several communications to conferences. He is also actively involved as a scientific referee for several high impact factor scientific journals, and participated to the scientific committee of different international congresses such as HYPOTHESIS XI and XIII, Tappi Nano 2015 etc. He was invited to give a plenary talk at the 11th National Chemical Engineering Congress of Turkey, 2-5 September 2014 held in the Eskişehir Osmangazi University. In 2001 Prof. Giacinti Baschetti has been conferred with the A.K. Doolittle Award from the American Chemical Society for his study on the modelling of gas solubility in polymeric blends.

 

Invited Talk (Resources Recovery )

Facilitated transport membranes for carbon capture

Marco Giacinti Baschetti

Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Material Engineering, the University of Bologna, Italy

(marco.giacinti@unibo.it)

Facilitated Transport (FT) membranes have attracted and are currently attracting great interest in the application related to gas separation processes due to their ability to couple both high flux and high selectivity. Thanks to the carrier mediated transport indeed these membranes are potentially able to overcome the limitation of solution-diffusion membranes represented by the Robeson upper bound. 
 
In the present contribution, a brief introduction of main feature of Facilitated transport membranes will be presented focusing the attention on the application related to CO2 capture and separation and on the results of the NANOMEMC2 projects which focus, on the modeling of the facilitated transport mechanisms and on the development of hybrid facilitated transport membranes obtained by  incorporating cellulose nanofibers and or graphene platelets in the amine bearing polymers. 
 

 

Professor Marco Giacinti Baschetti
Professor Marco Giacinti Baschetti
Different Transport mechanism inside a FT membrane
Different Transport mechanism inside a FT membrane