The series of encounters entitled “The travelling Genius : Italians Art, humanities, science … in the world”, is a space for discussion and cultural dialogue that the Italian Cultural Institute has developed especially for young Italians in world. Italians who, beyond any orientation, are the bearers of knowledge accumulated in Italy and diffuse the following, even without their knowledge, a provision or a vocation of ancient origin: the generous exchange of culture, comforted by a keen sense of human comprehension.
October 11, 2017, 6pm Free Admission
Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Montreal
1200 Av. du Dr Penfield
Conference in English
The chemical industry’s volume is expanding. The yearly increment in the US chemical output has raised of several % points in the last years, with a prediction to expand the volume by 6 % between 2017 and 2018. Together with the escalation in the volumes of existing goods and new chemicals and biochemicals brought to the market, the amount of by-products, including greenhouse gases, increases. Manua Loa observatory has recorded the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere since 1958: it correlates with World population growth as well as fossil fuel consumption. Green technologies based on cleaner energy sources such as biofuels, hydroelectricity, wind and natural gas are a global priority. Their implementation cannot only rely on existing industrial infrastructures but needs new resources and space. This represents a limit to the increase in the production capacity of existing chemical plants and to the development of new technologies.
There is the need to find innovative methods that drastically increase the efficiency of chemical and biochemical processes. Process Intensification refers to new technological strategies that are able to reduce dramatically the size of a chemical plant so as to reach a production objective. Currently there are no precise ways to measure PI, because it often includes more than one “intensifying” approach at once: structural, energetic, synergistic and temporal. During this conference, Prof. Boffito will show how Process Intensification still struggles to find a definition, despite the undisputable advantages. She will also explain how Process Intensification represents a paradigm-shift that, by a matter of fact will change the chemical industry in the forthcoming years. Prof. Boffito will browse the available methods to intensify the chemical industry will explain why we need to implement them in the existing and new processes.
Prof. Boffito is an emerging leader in the field of process intensification and is recognized internationally for her exceptional contributions to diverse scientific fields, including heterogeneous catalysis, biomass to fuels and chemicals, as well as sonochemistry. Daria Boffito is a Professor in Chemical Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal since May 2016 where she holds the Canada Research Chair in Intensified Mechano-chemical Processes for Sustainable Biomass Conversion. After graduating from the University of Milan with a PhD in Industrial Chemistry in 2013, she moved to Polytechnique Montreal where she began her postdoctoral research supported by prestigious scholarships such as the PBEEE (Program of Excellence Scholarships for Foreign Students) by FRQNT and the NSERC Banting post-doctoral Fellowship. During the second year of her PhD, Daria Boffito was selected as one of the Green Talents 2012 by the German Government, which annually identifies the top 25 young researchers worldwide in field of sustainability. Daria Boffito actively consults with several Canadian companies in the field of oil and gas and the synthesis of materials. Daria Boffito published 55 articles in scientific journals (including 21 articles on scientific communication), 7 book chapters, 1 book on scientific communication, and 2 patents. She counts more than 50 communications at national or international conferences.
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