Microreaction Technology: Industrial Prospects: IMRET 3: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Microreaction Technology

Front Matter....Pages I-XVII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Process Intensification Through Miniaturization of Chemical and Thermal Systems in the 21 st Century....Pages 2-13
Implementation of Microreaction Technology in Process Engineering....Pages 14-34
Front Matter....Pages 35-35
Fabrication and Application of Silicon-based Microchannels....Pages 36-44
Macroporous and Mesoporous Silicon: New Materials for Microfluidic and Microreaction Devices....Pages 45-52
The Effect of Shape Variation in Microlamination on the Performance of High-Aspect-Ratio, Metal Microchannel Arrays....Pages 53-61
Fabrication of Microchannel Chemical Reactors Using a Metal Lamination Process....Pages 62-71
Microreactor Technology for Biological Applications....Pages 72-79
Laserprocessing for manufacturing microfluidic devices....Pages 80-89
Functional Coatings for Microstructure Reactors and Heat Exchangers....Pages 90-101
Polymer nanowell plates with variable well slope angles....Pages 102-112
Micro molding of fluidic devices for biochemical applications....Pages 113-121
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Combinatorial Organic Compound Libraries on Continuous Surfaces: Towards Chemical Chips....Pages 124-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Electrochemical Microreactors: A New Approach for Microreaction Technology....Pages 136-150
High Temperature HCN Generation in an Integrated Microreaction System....Pages 151-164
Micro mixing effects in continuous radical polymerization....Pages 165-170
Novel Liquid Phase Microreactors for Safe Production of Hazardous Specialty Chemicals....Pages 171-180
Experiences with the use of microreactors in organic synthesis....Pages 181-186
A Microstructured Reactor for the Catalytic Partial Oxidation of Methane to Syngas....Pages 187-196
Expansion of Microreactor Capabilities through Improved Thermal Management and Catalyst Deposition....Pages 197-206
Synthesis of ethylene oxide in a microreaction system....Pages 207-212
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Selective Reactions in Microchannel Reactors....Pages 213-223
Periodic Operation in Microchannel Reactors....Pages 224-234
Micro-reactor synthesis: synthesis of cyanobiphenyls using a modified Suzuki coupling of an aryl halide and aryl boronic acid....Pages 235-242
Optimization of Reaction-Separation Networks via Mass Integration on the μ -Scale....Pages 243-252
Modelling of Gas-Liquid Catalytic Reactions in Microchannels....Pages 253-259
Simultaneous Screening of Catalysts in Microchannels: Methodology and Experimental Setup....Pages 260-266
Palladium Membrane Microreactors....Pages 267-276
A Micro Packed-Bed Reactor for Chemical Synthesis....Pages 277-286
Parallel Synthesis and Testing of Heterogeneous Catalysts....Pages 287-293
Single Flow Electrochemical Microreactor Application to Furan Methoxylation....Pages 294-300
Front Matter....Pages 301-301
Microfluidic Devices for Sample Preparation (Liquid) in the Nanoliter Range....Pages 302-311
Liquid Handling in the Pico- and Nanoliter Range....Pages 312-319
Flow-through microdispenser for liquid handling in a levitated-droplet based analyzing system....Pages 320-326
Simulation of Microscale Chemical Separation Processes Using the Lattice-Boltzmann Method....Pages 327-335
Modelling of complex reaction-separation processes in a d.c. electric field in microchannels....Pages 336-345
Microporous Silica Structures for the Immobilisation of Catalysts and Enhancement of Electroosmotic Flow (EOF) in Micro-Reactors....Pages 346-352
A new hydraulic stroke amplifier for microfluidic components....Pages 353-362
Front Matter....Pages 363-363
Microchannel Chemical Reactors for Fuel Processing Applications. II. Compact Fuel Vaporization....Pages 364-371
Microstructured Catalysts for Methanol-Steam Reforming....Pages 372-382
Fuel Cells for Low Power Applications....Pages 383-393
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Recent Developments in Microtechnology-Based Chemical Heat Pumps....Pages 394-401
Miniaturised direct methanol fuel cell with a plasma polymerised electrolyte membrane....Pages 402-408
Front Matter....Pages 409-409
Rapid PCR in flow-through Si chip thermocyclers....Pages 410-419
Disposable electrophoresis chip for high throughput analysis of biomolecules....Pages 420-429
A Micromachined Analysis System for Rapid Protein Identification.....Pages 430-440
Simulation of Biochemical Reaction Kinetics in Microfluidic Systems....Pages 441-450
Microfluidic Devices on Polymer Substrates for Bioanalytical Applications....Pages 451-460
Transfer of plasmid DNA into cells with microelectroporation arrays on a chip....Pages 461-468
On-line Monitoring of Enzyme Activities using Microreactor Heat Power Meters....Pages 469-478
Isothermal Biochemical Amplification in Miniaturized Reactors with Integrated Microvalves....Pages 479-487
Microfluidic Filtration Chip for DNA Extraction and Concentration....Pages 488-497
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The commercial use of multilayer microcapsules for biotechnological applications....Pages 500-504
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A Capillary Force Filled Auto-mixing Device....Pages 506-513
Fast Heating and Cooling for High Temperature Chemical Microreactors....Pages 514-525
Gas / Liquid Microreactors for Direct Fluorination of Aromatic Compounds Using Elemental Fluorine....Pages 526-540
Solvent Extraction and Gas Absorption Using Microchannel Contactors....Pages 541-549
Polymer membranes for product enrichment in microreaction technology....Pages 550-555
Compact Heat Exchangers....Pages 556-565
Optimizing the Geometry of a Catalytic Enzyme Microreactor in Porous Silicon....Pages 566-572
High aspect ratio silicon micromachined heat exchanger....Pages 573-577
Front Matter....Pages 505-505
Comparison of Two Microvalve Designs Fabricated in Mild Steel....Pages 578-587
Integrated Microfluidics/Electrochemical Sensor System for Field-Monitoring of Toxic Metals....Pages 588-596
Thermoelectrical Measurement System for Chemical Instrumentation....Pages 597-606
Electrically Heated Microstructure Heat Exchangers and Reactors....Pages 607-616
Analytical Module for In-line IR Spectroscopy of Chemical Reactions in Microchannels....Pages 617-624
A Microstructure Reactor for Gas Purification....Pages 625-635
A Flexible Multi-Component Microreaction System for Liquid Phase Reactions....Pages 636-644
Fast Response Heating Module for Temperature Programmed GC Analysis in Microreaction Systems....Pages 645-653
A Silicon-based Microreaction System for Analytical Applications....Pages 654-663
Designing and Constructing Microplants....Pages 664-673
A Modular Microreactor Design for High-Temperature Catalytic Oxidation Reactions....Pages 674-686
Microstructured Reactor for Consecutive Heterogeneous/Homogeneous Gas Phase Reactions....Pages 687-693