By Prof. Tarik Chafik, Faculty of Sciences and Techniques of Tangier, Morocco.
The presentation deals with design and engineering of low cost catalyst based on Moroccan natural clay with appropriate texture and chemical composition containing mainly aluminosilicates as well as mixture of minerals. The clay enables easy extrusion as honeycomb monolith and related advantages which may help moving ahead towards industrial application. Of interest also, the possibility of tuning the catalytic behavior through incorporation of appropriate active phases and promoters. The catalyst system showed efficient behavior towards syngas production through conversion of methane and CO2 considered both as major greenhouse gases. The designed and developed catalytic system was tested using model reaction mixture containing CH4, CO2 and O2. The issue is of interest regarding current growing awareness about global climate change and also for reforming of biogas generated by landfill wastes regarding the current context of circular economy.
Biography
Tarik Chafik is currently full Professor, Research Director and Master courses coordinator at the Faculty of Sciences and Techniques of Tangier (Morocco), where he is teaching Thermodynamic, Chemical engineering, catalysis and atmospheric pollution control. He graduated from the University of Lyon than he was Post-doc researcher at University of Patras (Greece) and he worked for 2 years at AIST, Tsukuba Japan. He was awarded as Fulbright visiting researcher at University California Berkeley (with Prof. A. T. Bell) and visiting Professor positions at Alma Mater University of Bologna as well as at the University of Lille. Prof. T. Chafik’s research is focused on sustainable development technologies such as those involving adsorbents and catalysts for VOC removal and methane reforming as well as nanomaterials for winds turbine lubricant additive and nanoporous carbon for energy storage.