Symposium 7
Industrial Electrolysis, from the Laboratory to Industry: State of the Art and Innovation in Electrode Materials, Membranes, Electrolytes and Processes
Sponsoring Division: Division 5, Electrochemical Process Engineering and Technology
The increasing need for the minimization of environmental impact of industrial production and energy conversion draws more and more attention on electrochemical technologies and on electrochemical process engineering in particular. Research on new materials, chemical compositions, electronic structures, and geometries for electrodes as well as development of functional electrode surfaces modified by nanostructures or semiconductors are contributing to new and better processes. On the other hand the relative facility of scaling-up, typical of electrochemical experimentation, and modelling maintains an extremely effective exchange of information between fundamental and applied areas, from performance of electrode materials, to process kinetics and reactor engineering.
More specifically, papers are encouraged on but not limited to:
- Inorganic electrosynthesis: chlor-alkali, chlorate, hydrogen peroxide, ozone and hydrogen production
- Electrometallurgy in its different branches
- Electrochemical cell and reactor design
- Electrode materials and electrocatalysts
- Energy efficient membranes for electrolytic processes
- Novel electrolytes, such as ionic liquids and supercritical fluids, for more efficient processes
- Electrolytic water treatment and purification processes, such as advanced oxidation, electrodialysis, and membrane electrolysis
- Descriptions of industrial applications that consider mechanistic aspects of electrode processes and engineering issues, including scale-up and reactor design
- Electrochemical sequestration of carbon dioxide sequestering and its use in synthesis
Presentations dealing with business, economics, environmental or historical aspects of the different processes are also encouraged.
Symposium Organisers
Achille De Battisti (coordinator), University of Ferrara, Italy, dbtcll@unife.it
Christos Comninellis, EPFL, Switzerland, christos.comninellis@epfl.ch
Claude Deslouis, University P. and M. Curie, Paris, France, cld@ccr.jussieu.fr
Yunny Meas, CIDETEQ, Mexico, yunnymeas@cideteq.mx
Constantinos G. Vayenas, University of Patras, Greece, cat@chemeng.upatras.gr
