FluidCELL workshops and research events

The original FluidCELL website used this URL for membrane-reactor workshop information. The page now provides an independent historical account. It is not a current event announcement and is not operated by the former consortium.

The March 2017 workshop

The third European workshop on membrane reactors, Membrane Reactors for Process Intensification (MR4PI2017), took place on 9–10 March 2017 in Villafranca di Verona, Italy. An announcement published by madri+d names BIONICO, FERRET, FluidCELL, MEMERE and ROMEO as the organizing projects. 2

The programme addressed membrane-reactor fundamentals, process design and industrial applications. These subjects connected material and reaction research with questions about installing and operating complete systems.

The archived FluidCELL account records scientific presentations, round tables, posters and a visit to ICI. It discusses scale-up, sealing and the need for comparable membrane-test conditions. These are reported themes of that meeting, not claims that all the associated engineering problems were solved. 1

Public documentation that survives

Forschungszentrum Jülich's institutional repository hosts an abstract by Stefan Baumann and colleagues on ceramic membrane development for membrane reactors. It identifies the March 2017 workshop and discusses membrane performance and stability under operating conditions. 3

The madri+d announcement preserves the event's context and original links. The archived project page records the former workshop account and its abstracts-and-presentations download link. The original archive is a research source; its prose and download collection are not republished here.

Historical links to an agenda or ZIP collection should not be interpreted as a currently available download hosted by this publication. The institutional abstract is linked at its original repository, where the author and host retain control of the document.

What the workshop topics mean

A membrane reactor combines reaction with selective transport. For hydrogen production, catalyst performance and membrane transport must be considered together. The engineering guide explains partial-pressure driving force, membrane area and the effects of supports and seals.

Scale-up changes more than membrane area. Distribution, heat transfer, catalyst behaviour and installed-module leakage become part of the assessment. Comparable test conditions matter because a result obtained with pure hydrogen cannot simply be assigned to an ethanol-reforming mixture.

The industrial question is whether the entire process supplies usable output consistently. The historical FluidCELL overview distinguishes project targets, modelled performance and the integration limitations reported at project close.

Related historical material

The publication reading list connects the workshop's technical themes to papers on project concepts and fuel-cell integration. Dissemination resources links to the final report and records the scope of the former site's communications.

The earlier site also had a broader events calendar. A calendar listing is not evidence that FluidCELL organized or attended every event. That distinction is retained in the historical account.