Volume 47, 2016
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CHEMICAL
ENGINEERING TRANSACTIONS
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VOL.47
Guest
Editors: Angelo
Chianese, Luca Di Palma, Elisabetta Petrucci, Marco Stoller
Copyright © 2016, AIDIC Servizi S.r.l.,
ISBN 978-88-95608-38-9
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ISSN 2283-9216
EDITORIAL
Facing
the new environmental issues of our century requires effective and safe technologies
for sites treatment and remediation, pollution sensing and detection, and air
and water purification. Nanotechnologies and nanomaterials can offer environmental
friendly and cost effective solutions alternative to conventional treatment
and materials.
As a matter of fact, the use of nanostructured materials in environmental monitoring,
protection and remediation growing up year by year.
Moreover, nanomaterials are important to offer successful solutions for specific
applications in various fields as energy production, production process, biomedical
applications with a dramatic reduction of the impact on the ecosystems.
Obviously the prerequisite of such technical improvements is the effective and
economical production of nanostructures as nanoparticles, nanotubes, nanorods,
and self-assembled materials.
The contributions of this volume give a wide scenario on the production of nanomaterials
either for production process more environmental friendly, or for their use
on purification treatments of polluted air, water and soil.
The point of view is that one of Industrial Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,
that is to propose nanomaterial production processes and environmental treatments
which are technically and economically feasible.
Together with novel processes viable only by the use of nanomaterial, as the
degradation of organic pollutants by photocatalysis under sunrays, the volume
presents traditional chemical operations as adsorption or membrane filtration,
which have been greatly improved by the use of nanostructured materials and
their functionalization.
The final goal is to foster an increasing use of nanomaterials in novel production
processes or environmental treatments, merging the industrial needs and research
contributions from physicians, chemists, chemical and material engineers.
Angelo
Chianese, Luca Di Palma. Elisabetta Petrucci, Marco Stoller
(Guest Editors)
a Journal of AIDIC The Italian Association of Chemical Engineering