Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION AND SETTING THE SCENE 1. The vision of future Sustainable Energy, Catalyst and Chemistry: Opportunities for Innovation and Business A. Basile – CNR/ITM, G. Centi – Univ. Messina, M. De Falco – University "Campus Bio-Medico" of Rome, G. Iaquaniello – Processi Innovativi 2. How green chemistry is going to change chemical engineering G. Iaquaniello – KT 3. Building the future of green chemistry A. Susa – Tecnimont 4. Engineering of nano materials P. Ciambelli Univ. Salerno 5. Process simulation for design and optimization M. De Falco - University "Campus Bio-Medico" of Rome 6. Calculate the production costs of your own process scheme E. Palo - KT 7. Bio Refinery: the ENI Concept G. Rispoli - ENI



SELECTED EXAMPLES AND CASE HISTORIES ON CATALYSIS, GREEN CHEMISTRY AND ENGINEERING 8. Making a new chemistry with CO2 K.J. Schouten – Avantium 9. Waste-to-chemicals: an example of circular economy A Salladini –Processi Innovativi 10. Ultra-compact Bio-fuels catalytic reforming processes for distributed renewable hydrogen production V. Palma – Univ. Salerno 11. Novel bio-processes and technology using membranes A Basile – CNR/ITM 12. Oleo-chemistry: opportunities and Challenges A. Zarli – Processi Innovativi 13. Algae based Polymers F. Pagnanelli – UNIROMA La Sapienza 14. Bio- Polymers Engineering M. Barletta – UNIROMA III 15. Biorefinery concept: strategies for new green solvents M. Bravi – Uniroma 1 16. Fermentation and Bio Chemical Eng. and principles V. Piemonte - University "Campus Bio-Medico" of Rome 17. Design of catalyst and electrode for photo-catalytic water splitting Yongdan Li – University of Tianjin 18. Fuel cells: opportunities and challenges S. Campanari – PoliMilano



MAKING BUSINESS WITH NEW TECHNOLOGIES 19. How to make a business plan B. Masciocchi – Processi Innovativi 20. How to protect I.P. and write patents J. W. Goedemakers – MT 21. The Role of start-Up companies in creating job opportunities G. Bardazzi – Maire Tecnimont 22. Creating a winning start-up in green chemistry P. De Stefanis 23. Writing competitive research proposals and Fund raising P. De Stefanis

About the Author

Angelo Basile, a Chemical Engineer, is a senior Researcher at the ITM-CNR, University of Calabria, where he is responsible for research related to both the ultra-pure hydrogen production and CO2 capture using Pd-based Membrane Reactors. Angelo Basile's h-index is 53, with 387 document results with a total of 8,910 citations in 5,034 documents (www.scopus.com – 24 May 2023).

He has more than 170 scientific papers in peer-to-peer journals and 252 papers in international congresses; and is a reviewer for 165 int. journals, an editor/author of more than 50 scientific books and 120 chapters on international books on membrane science and technology; 6 Italian patents, 2 European patents and 5 worldwide patents. He is referee of 104 international scientific journals and Member of the Editorial Board of 22 of them.

Basile is also Editor associate of the Int. J. Hydrogen Energy and Editor-in-chief of the Int. J. Membrane Science & Technol. and Editor-in-chief of Membrane Processes (Applications), a section of the Intl J. Membranes. Basile also prepared 42 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. 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). From 2014, Basile is Full Professor of Chemical Engineering Processes.

Gabriele Centi is full professor of Industrial Chemistry at the University of Messina, Italy, and President of the European Research Institute of Catalysis (ERIC). Research interests are in the areas of applied heterogeneous catalysis, sustainable energy and chemical processes, biomass conversion and environment protection.
He was coordinator of the EU Network of Excellence IDECAT, and is actually President of IACS (International Association of Catalysis Societies) and vice-President of the InterUniversity Consortium on the Science and Technology of Materials (INSTM). He was coordinator or PI in over twenty EU projects, besides many other national and industrial projects. He received several awards, and is involved in various editorial activities, between which chairing the editorial board of ChemSusChem and be co-editor in chief of Journal of Energy Chemistry. He is chair of the Elsevier Book Series Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis. He was chairperson of many international conferences (the last one Europacat 2017 in Florence) and also chaired the 1st World Congress on Environmental Catalysis in Pisa (Italy) on May 1995. He is author of over 450 scientific publications, 12 books and editor of various special issues. Current h-index is 76 with about 21.000 citations (Google Scholar). Marcello De Falco is an associate professor of the Faculty of Engineering of “Campus Bio-Medico” of Rome and a researcher expert in reactor modeling, chemical plants optimization and energy systems. He has about 100 publications on reactor simulations, solar technologies, chemical processes development and technologies assessment. He is author of 5 books published by Wiley and Springer and project manager of research projects on energy production and energy storage innovative technologies. Gaetano Iaquaniello, is a Vice President Innovation Strategy at KT - Kinetics Technology and Managing Director of Processi Innovativi, Green Chemicals & Fuel.
He received his MSc in C.E. cum laude from University of Rome in 1975, docteur d’université, the UER de Sciences, University of Limoges in 1984 and an M.Sc. in Management from the London Business School in 1997.
He has almost 40 years’ experience in designing and operating chemical plants, particularly, for syngas manufacturing. He authored and co-authored numerous papers, patents and books on syngas production and more recently on membrane reactors and CO2 reuse.
From 2009 he has been coordinator of Italian Society of Chemical Engineers (ADIC) for Central Italy and member of the national Board.Since beginning 2011, he has also been V.P. Corporate Technology of the Maire Tecnimont Innovation Center BV in the Netherlands, and from 2015 is also CEO Bio-P, a start-up