Please find below all our joint workshops :

- Catalytic Membrane Reactors, What's Next? workshop, Petten, April 2015.

- The joint Workshop on Scale-up of Pd membrane Technology From Understanding to Pilot Demonstration, Petten November 2014.

- The Inorganic membranes for green chemical production and clean power generation.

- The DEMCAMER & CARENA workshop.

- The CACHET II & CARENA & COMETHY Workshop on Pd-based Membrane Scale-Up Workshop

- The IMeTI & CARENA Workshop on Inorganic Membrane Technology - Advanced Production & Design.

Scope

The workshop was organized by the EU‐funded projects CARENA and ISPT.  This was a 2‐day (day1- lectures, posters

session and day 2 interactive discussions to generate ideas and next steps) event including a visit to ECN facilities

packed for an intense Dutch experience. It proved a unique knowledge‐sharing experience for representatives of

academia, research institutions and industrial stakeholders.

54 participants from 9 countries got together to further explore the latest topics in Catalytic Membrane Reactors and

their future. The first day of the event was hosted by ECN, and the second day located on the seaside at camposide

at Struin Paviljon. On the behalf of the CARENA and ISPT, Congratulations for the good job!

Programme: Download  Workshop_agenda_april2015

Organizing Committee:

Arend de Groot (ECN,CARENA), Chair & Coordinator

Hank Vleeming (ECN, CARENA)

Laurence Bosch (EMH, CARENA)

Gilbert Rios (EMH,CARENA)

Ilona Kaandorp (ECN, CARENA)

Luisa Groothuis (ISPT)

To download: click on the authors names in brackets to access the pdf for the presentations available in the

differents sessions. Refers to the programme for the presentations titles.

Day 1:

Opening and welcome, Introduction CARENA (A de Groot); Introduction ISTP

Session 1: Novel Membranes for Catalytic Membrane Reactors

Overview (ML_Fontaine), Highlights (N Benes; J Caro)

Session 2: Novels Catalysts for Membrane Reactors

overview (Y Schuurman), highlights (D Farrusseng; ME Rivas-Velazco; A Ricca)

Session 3: Modeling and Design of Catalytic Membrane Reactors

Overview of CARENA (H Vleeming) and Highlights (R Roelant; F van Berkel and E Palo), Overview of DEMCAMER (I_Mirabelli)

Session 4: Processes Employing Catalytic Membrane Reactors

overview (N Doucet; G Remmers)

Session 5: Exploitation of Novel Materials and Catalytic Membrane Reactors

Exploitation and poster session

Introduction to the CARENA Innovation Leaflets  (H Vleeming)

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74 participants from 17 countries got together to further explore the latest topics in fundamental aspects of Pd membrane technology, manufacturing and scale‐up challenges and towards industrial applications and alternatives others. The whole event was hosted by ECN on the behalf of the 4 EU‐funded projects: Congratulations for the good job!     Feedback from the workshop attendees was extremely positive. Frans van Berkel (ECN Senior Scientist and Chair of the Organizing Committee) admitted “There was such genuine contribution and common drive to find the right way to make sure that palladium membrane scale up happens – and soon – as we all believe this to have breakthrough potential for so many applications including hydrogen power, refining, petrochemicals, hydrogen vehicles to name a few!”

The joint workshop at ECN in Petten, The Netherlands, November 20&21, 2014.

   

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The Demcamer-CARENA workshop on Membranes and Membrane Reactors has been hosted at Eindhoven University of Technology on January 30th 2013. Around 45 people attended the meeting both working in Carena and Demcamer projects but also external guests.

The introduction to both projects, given by the coordinators, have shown how the two consortia share similar challenges in membrane preparation and in membrane reactor configurations. Four main lectures have been given during the meeting on membrane preparation, catalyst preparation, membrane reactor application and membrane reactor modeling.

The participation of several young researchers made the discussion very interesting especially during the poster session. From the discussions during the meeting it has been proposed to repeat this event in 12-18 months by giving the opportunity to PhD students to present their work. The team in both projects are discussing on the best way to proceed with this new meeting. An idea is to also cooperate with other projects dealing with membrane reactors to have a more effective dissemination of the results. Another idea is to co-organize an exploitation workshop where we can show to industrial partners the demonstration units developed in the current projects

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Presentations

01- TUe Demcamer-Carena meeting

02- Introduction to CARENA

03 - Introduction to Demcamer

04 -Catalyst preparation

05 - CO2 utilization for workshop 30-01-2013 Thijs de Groot

06 - Presentation Harro for workshop 30-1-2013 Thijs de Groot

07 - Modelling of membrane reactors

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CACHET-II, CARENA and COMETHY are three European FP7 projects developing palladium membrane technology for hydrogen production. Due to such technology synergy, the three projects have joined force and organized a workshop together, focusing on discussing “palladium membrane Scale-Up challenges and solutions”. The workshop was a 3-day event in Italy on 12-14th November 2012, including 1 day of membrane pilot plant tour in Chieti and 2 days of presentations and interactive discussions in Rome.

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The workshop brought together more than 70 participants from more than 45 different organizations worldwide, with a broad participation of industrial stakeholders besides representatives of research institutions and universities. In addition to the members of the three organizing projects, a good number of “external” participants and projects also presented and contributed to the interactive discussion. Therefore, the event proved to be a unique knowledge-sharing experience for the three projects and all participants, providing a clear picture of the status of palladium membrane technology in view of its commercialization. The workshop covered a good breadth of topics that are critical for palladium membrane technology scale-up: from the fundamentals of palladium membranes, support and seal manufacturing, mechanical design, to various concepts of membrane module design and system integration; from lab-scale long-term stability testing results to industrial pilot plant operational insights.

The closing discussion session sketches a picture of the general opinion on the status of the Pd-technology and an overview of the critical issues to be addressed in the near future.  

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Opening & Welcome   Opening speech PDF (9.48 MB) Project introduction of workshop partners Introduction to CoMETHy: Compact Multifuel-Energy To Hydrogen converter (Alberto Giaconia, ENEA. Italy) PDF (1.28 MB) Introduction to CARENA: Pd-membrane based reactors for C1 to C4 conversion (Arend de Groot, ECN. The Netherlands) PDF (1.22 MB) Cachet II: Carbon capture and hydrogen power production with palladium membrane (Bai Song, BP. United Kingdom) PDF (320 KB) Session A: Individual Scale-up Challenges A1. Scale-up of Pd/Pd-alloy deposition Very large deposition equipment for industrial membrane manufacturing (Laurent Dubost, HEF. France) PDF (1.05 MB) Fabrication of Pd-based membranes by magnetron sputtering - possibilities for membrane and module design (Thijs Peters, SINTEF. Norway)PDF (1.45 MB) Preparation of supported Pd alloy membranes (Alfredo Pacheco, Tecnalia. Spain) PDF (2.56 MB) Opportunities and restrictions of Electroless Plating as deposition technology for Pd(alloy) membranes (Marcel den Exter, ECN. The Netherlands) PDF (4.17 MB) A2. Scale-up of membrane support technology Overview of porous ceramic tubes processing and coating (Fabiano Rodrigues, Saint Gobain. France) PDF (1.39 MB) Multi layer design of sintered metal support structures for Pd-membranes (Harald Balzer, GKN. Germany) PDF (1.71 MB) Development of ITM-based palladium membranes for use in hydrogen production (Wolfgang Schafbauer, Plansee. Austria) Large scale ceramic membranes fabrication (Hannes Richter, Fraunhofer IKTS. Germany) PDF (7.92 MB) A3. Membrane seal technology development Ceramic-to-metal seal development by IMR (Chunhai Jiang, IMR. China) PDF (1.90 MB) Experience sharing on sealing system design for membrane unit (Lucia Lin, Sinyuan Industrial Material. China) PDF (1.57 MB) A4. Membrane module mechanical design Membrane module design: a general introduction (Emma Palo, TKT. Italy) PDF (451 KB) Design and performance aspects of Pd-membrane reactors for methane to methanol conversion (Frans van Berkel, ECN. The Netherlands) PDF (2.16 MB) Membrane module design of CACHET-II project (Clemence Bourles, Technip. France) Session B: Membrane Implementation & Operation B1. Simulation and modelling of membrane unit Criteria for Membrane Reactor Design: Thermal Effects, Autothermal Design and Radial Gradients (Moshe Sheintuch, Technion. Israel) PDF (3.93 MB) Membrane reactor simulator developed in CACHET-II (John Morud, SINTEF. Norway) PDF (361 KB) B2. Process integration and technoeconomics Membranes in Solar Steam reforming (Alberto Giaconia, ENEA. Italy) PDF (1.26 MB) Techno-economic assessment of CO2 capture in IGCC plants via Pd-based membranes (Matteo Gazzani, Politecnico di Milano. Italy) PDF (1.24 MB) CACHET II - Process integration and technoeconomics of pre-combustion carbon capture natural gas fired combined cycles employing hydrogen selective membranes (Aggelos Doukelis, NTUA. Greece) PDF (7.53 MB) B3. Membrane stability and robustness under long-term operation in industrial environment Membrane development for H2 separation at Shell (Arian Nijmeijer, Shell. The Netherlands) Long term testing results of different membrane suppliers (Barbara Cucchiella, Processi Innovativi. Italy) PDF (3.88 MB) CACHET-II stability test results (Andreas Goldbach, DICP. China) PDF (1 MB) Start-up/shut-down/maintenance requirements Membrane reforming pilot testing: Tecnimont KT experience (Annarita Salladini, Processi Innovativi. Italy) PDF (1.42 MB) Operations of a 40 Nm3/h-class membrane reformer system at Tokyo Gas (Hisataka Yakabe, Tokyo Gas. Japan) PDF (8.61 MB)   Session C: Alternatives C1. Alternative applications Membrane based fuel reformer for CHP applications (Fausto Gallucci, Eindhoven University of Technology. The Netherlands) PDF (1.36 MB) Potential uses of Pd-membranes in thermochemical biorefinery operations (Kyriakos Panopoulos, NTUA. Greece) PDF (11.28 MB) C2. Self-supported membrane Development and applications of Pd-Ag dense permeator tubes (Silvano Tosti, ENEA. Italy) PDF (1.16 MB)

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Visit of the membrane pilot plant tour in Chieti

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CACHET-II is an EC FP7-funded project with a total budget of €5.2m, conducted by an 8-member consortium of leading research institutes, universities, energy businesses and engineering companies. It is coordinated by BP, aiming to develop innovative membrane technology to increase the energy efficiency of pre-combustion CO2 capture in natural gas- and coal-fired power plants. http://www.cachet2.eu/

CoMETHy (Compact Multifuel-Energy to Hydrogen converter) The COMETHY project is a collaborative project co-funded by the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking with a total budget of ca. 4.9 M€. The project is conducted by 12 organizations coordinated by ENEA (Italy). The general objective is to develop a compact & fuel-flexible membrane reformer for hydrogen production, adaptable to different heat sources. http://www.comethy.enea.it/

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Over 100 participants were present. Numerous industry sectors as well as research institutes and academia which together gave valuable contributions. It was a successful workshop with fruitful discussions.

Objectives 

• Gather industries and SMEs using advanced inorganic membrane designs (honeycombs, hollow fibres, tubes, capillaries…) and  gaining insights into their potential applications for gas & vapour separation, and membrane reactors.
• Create a discussion platform between the IMeTI & CARENA consortium members and the audience. Industry, universities and research centres will learn about the two projects's activities related to inorganic membrane development.

Topics

The workshop treated the following topics: synthesis/development of inorganic membranes; impact of membrane design on performance; heat transfer; stability in operation and membrane lifetime; costs and integration in large scales for selected systems. Focus is laid on membranes used for gas and vapour separation/treatment, including catalytic membranes reactors and electrochemical systems.  

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