Dr. Fausto Gallucci

Associate Professor


(Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Chemical Process Intensification, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands)

Fausto Gallucci was born in Crotone (Italy), on November 7th, 1974. He received a MSc degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Calabria on April 4th 2001 and a PhD in Chemical Engineering at the same university in 2006. The research interest is the interaction of heterogeneous catalysis, transport phenomena, and fluid mechanics in novel multifunctional reactors. In particular the process intensification of interesting processes such as methanol production, Fisher-Tropsch reaction, hydrogen production by reforming/dehydrogenation reactions are the main interests. He published more than 120 papers ranging from gas separation systems, methanol synthesis from carbon dioxide and hydrogen carried out in zeolite membrane reactors, membrane reaction systems: partial oxidation, steam reforming, water gas shift, carried out in novel membrane reactors. He is responsible of several national and international projects on Fluidized bed MR, CLC systems, bio-based processes etc.

Plenary Talk on

Membranes and Membrane reactors for Energy applications

Inorganic membranes such as oxygen transport membranes and palladium-based membranes for hydrogen separation have been studied by several research groups especially for energy applications (both for pre-combustion and oxy-fuel combustion). Much effort has been paid to improve the flux of these membranes optimizing the supports, deposition/production techniques, etc. High flux and cheap membranes yet stable at different operating conditions are required for their exploitation at industrial scale.
The integration of membranes in membrane reactors (typical example of multifunctional reactors) increases the on the membranes. In fact, the integration of reaction and separation in a single devise, decreases the degree of freedom on the operating conditions, also interaction between the catalyst and the membrane surface can occur, damaging both membranes and catalyst.
In this work, the recent advances on inorganic membrane preparation, membrane reactor design and testing and the scale-up of these reactors are discussed in details, especially for energy related applications.