Center for Surface Chemistry and Catalysis - Francqui Leerstoel 2009-2010 - Prof. dr. ir. Gino V. Baron

Professor Pol Coppin, decaan Faculteit Bio-ingenieurswetenschappen
Professor Johan Martens, voorzitter Departement Microbiële en Moleculaire Systemen

hebben de eer u uit te nodigen op de plechtige openingszitting
met inaugurale lezing van de binnenlandse Francqui Leerstoel 2009-2010.

Professor Gino V. Baron, Departement Chemische Ingenieurstechnieken Vrije Universiteit Brussel

zal spreken over

Exploiting order and structure on a range of length scales in adsorptive separation and reaction:
from nanostructured materials to microfluidics. (abstract)

De zitting vindt plaats op dinsdag 23 februari 2010 om 16 uur in de Promotiezaal, Universiteitshal, Naamsestraat 22, 3000 LEUVEN

De toga wordt gedragen

Na de academische zitting wordt een receptie aangeboden in de Jubileumzaal

NIEUW!!!
Foto's academische zitting

Lessencyclus / Cources

dinsdag  2 maart 2010 van 14  tot 16 uur                 Fundamentals of adsorption and adsorptive separation processes           
Tuesday March 2, 2010 from 2 to 4 p.m.

dinsdag  9 maart 2010 van 14  tot 16 uur                 Confinement and molecular ordering effects in nanostructured materials
Tuesday March 9, 2010 from 2 to 4 p.m.

dinsdag 16 maart  2010 van 14  tot 16 uur               Microanalytical devices and lab-on-a-chip systems
Tuesday March 16, 2010 from 2 to 4 p.m.

dinsdag  23 maart 2010 van 14  tot 16 uur               Microreactors and microseparators: a new route to process integration and
Tuesday March 23, 2010 from 2 to 4 p.m.                intensification?

dinsdag  30 maart 2010 van 14  tot 16 uur               Separation technology for a sustainable World
Tuesday March 30, 2010 from 2 to 4 p.m.

Exploiting order and structure in adsorptive separation and reaction: from nanostructured materials to microfluidics.

Gino V. Baron, Department Chemical Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Chemical engineering has long been the art of converting lab scale ideas into a full scale process. Although this is still largely the case today, the discipline has
broadenend its scope and its methodology is now applied in many fields such as environment, medicine and electronics. Contacting fluids, gasses and solids on
a large scale in stirred tanks or packed beds is now gradually performed in structured even micro- or nanostructured devices. This allows for much tighter control
of contacting patterns and often results in dramatic intensification of the contact with strong reduction in size, cost, energy and utility usage, waste generation,
and increased selectivity and safety.

This control can in some cases now be exerted down to the molecular level with the help of high-performance nanostructured functional materials. The engineer's
toolbox now also includes molecular modeling to understand and predict molecular interactions, and CFD to calculate the flow in these microdevices, allowing much
more detailed analysis of the operations and first principles design of processes and equipment. This lecture series will illustrate this new methodology in the field
of absorptive separations, both analytical and production scale and catalytic reactions. Many examples will come from the author's personal experience and work,
but also from industrial and academic work by others. Some case studies will address issues such as safety, process economics and sustainability.

The lectures will include a brief introduction to the subjects for non-specialists, but will then move on to describe the latest achievements and applications.
Separation processes use most of the energy in the process industry, and adsorption based separations can be excellent alternatives to reduce the energy
consumption, but also reduce waste. It will play an important role in our move to sustainable chemical production, but already finds application in transportation,
energy production and conversion and CO2 capture.

The main topics addressed are:

1. fundamentals of adsorption and adsorptive separation technology
2. confinement and molecular ordering effects in nanostructured materials
3. micro analytical devices and lab on a chip systems
4. micro-reactors and micro separators: from research tools to industrial large-scale production
5. needs, challenges and innovation opportunities in separators and reactors: case studies such as CO2 capture, CO2 methane separation, hydrocarbon separations, xylenes separation, reactor-separators and examples of process integration and intensification

Lectures each Tuesday in March 14 – 16h:
Aula van de Tweede Hoofdwet, TI, Kasteelpark Arenberg 41, 3001 Heverlee [2, 9, 16, 23 maart]
MTM.00.0039, Kasteelpark Arenberg 44, 3001 Heverlee [30 maart]

Fundamentals of adsorption and adsorptive separation processes

Thermodynamics, equilibrium, kinetics, measurement methods, high throughput techniques, examples, modeling (MM, MD, Ab initio), relation structure-performance,
state of the art basic processes (large scale chromatography, PSA, TSA, SMB, …) and example applications in gas, liquid and bio-separations and purifications (home,
car, space, …)

Confinement and molecular ordering effects in nanostructured materials

Energy – entropy based separation, compensation effect, ZSM5 + linear alkanes, rotational entropy based separation MCM22, alkanes-alkenes-aromatics on Y-type zeolites, linear HC in 5A, alcohols on Chabazites, xylenes on MOF and Y type zeolites. Adsorption effects in reaction.

Microanalytical devices and lab on a chip systems

Chromatography theory, Van Deemter, state of the art methods (particle size, flow, detection, principle of separation (rev phase, HILIC, …) …), limitations,
performance modeling (simple, CFD, …), pressure driven CE, shear driven, on chip systems, influence of order (part size distribution), flow through particles, monolith, pillars, integration on a chip, DNA hybridization, particle separation

Microreactors and microseparators: a new route to process integration and intensification?

Micro-reactors and micro separators: from research tools to industrial large-scale production
New materials: gating adsorbents, bio-mimetic, templated, hybrid materials, …
Membrane reactors, reactor-separators, tar removal in catalytic filter.
HC hydroconversion on zeolites (gas, liquid), behaviour at high pressure: reversal of selectivity, oxidation on Phtallocyanines, TS1, …
Examples of process integration and intensification

Separation technology for a sustainable world

Case studies such as CO2 capture from flue gas and air, CO2 methane separation, hydrocarbon separations, xylenes separation, environmental cleanup, adsorption technology in transportand energy generation
Fast analytical techniques in anti-terror and medical applications
Hybrid processes, adsorption in bio-processing, fuel cells, cogeneration, …

Prof. Dr. Ir. Gino V. Baron
Gewoon Hoogleraar (Full Professor)
Department of Chemical Engineering (CHIS)
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel - Belgium
Tel.: 32-2-629 32 46 - Fax: 32-2-629 32 48
Email: gvbaron@vub.ac.be

Fellow of the AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers)
Past President of IAS (International Adsorption Society)
Member AIChE Separations Division, Adsorption and Ion Exchange Committee Member FWO Commission W&T6 Chemical Engineering
Member of the VIB Board (Flemish Institute for Biotechnology)
Member Editorial Board, Journal Adsorption, Journal Adsorption Science and Technology, International Journal of Chemical Engineering

Major Research and Consultancy Interests:
Extensive industrial experience both in industry itself and in collaborative research: chemical, pharmaceutical and food and beverages. Research is focused on the
use of structured (micro)porous materials in gas and liquid separation both by physical adsorption and chemisorption and the study of adsorption effects in heterogeneous catalysis. Other projects deal with novel reactor and catalyst technology, high throughput synthesis and testing, hot gas cleaning, fuel cells and miniaturized high speed and high pressure liquid phase chromatography and screening.

The CHIS group currently has 4 professors, 7 postdoc and 16 PhD students and has extensive analytical capability (including TOF GC/MS) and material
characterization, a computer cluster, numerical machining equipment, robotic high throughput equipment for liquid and gas adsorption, 8 parallel reactor/frontal
analysis (liquid), liquid/gas 20 reactor/adsorption breakthrough system, 6 inverse chromatography setups for gas and liquid, vapour adsorption microbalances,
high pressure gas adsorption setups from VTI and Rubotherm,  and high temperature catalytic test systems, fluorescence setups for miniaturized chromatography, chromatographic support synthesis.

http://www.francquifoundation.be

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