Micro Process Engineering: Fundamentals, Devices, Fabrication, and Applications

Description

Advanced Micro & Nanosystems (AMN) provides cutting-edge reviews and detailed case studies by top authors from science and industry, covering technologies, devices and advanced systems from the micro and nano worlds, which together have an immense innovative application potential that opens up with control of shape and function from the atomic level right up to the visible world without any technological gaps.

In this topical volume, authors from leading industrial players and research institutions present a concise and didactical introduction to Micro Process Engineering, the combination of microtechnology and process engineering into a most promising and powerful tool for revolutionizing chemical processes and industrial mass production of bulk materials, fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals and many other products.

The book takes the readers from the fundamentals of engineering methods, transport processes, and fluid dynamics to device conception, simulation and modelling, control interfaces and issues of modularity and compatibility. Fabrication strategies and techniques are examined next, focused on the fabrication of suitable microcomponents from various materials such as metals, polymers, silicon, ceramics and glass. The book concludes with actual applications and operational aspects of micro process systems, giving broad coverage to industrial efforts in America, Europe and Asia as well as laboratory equipment and education.

 

Table of Contents

Preface.

Foreword.

List of Contributors.

Nomenclature.

1 Process Engineering Methods and Microsystem Technology (Norbert Kockmann).

2 Momentum and Heat Transfer in Microsized Devices (Heinz Herwig).

3 Transport Processes and Exchange Equipment (Norbert Kockmann).

4 Multiphase Flow, Evaporation, and Condensation at the Microscale (Michael K. Jensen, Yoav Peles, Theodorian Borca-Tasciuc, and Satish G. Kandlikar).

5 Generation and Multiphase Flow of Emulsions in Microchannels (Isao Kobayashi and Mitsutoshi Nakajima).

6 Chemical Reactions in Continuous-flow Microstructured Reactors (Albert Renken and Lioubov Kiwi-Minsker).

7 Design Process and Project Management (Steffen Schirrmeister, Jürgen J. Brandner, and Norbert Kockmann).

8 Simulation and Analytical Modeling for Microreactor Design (Osamu Tonomura).

9 Integration of Sensors and Process-analytical Techniques (Stefan Löbbecke).

10 Microfabrication in Metals and Polymers (Jürgen J. Brandner, Thomas Gietzelt, Torsten Henning, Manfred Kraut, Holger Mortiz, and Wilhelm Pfleging).

11 Silicon Microfabrication for Microfluidics (Frank Goldschmidtböing, Michael Engler, and Alexander Doll).

12 Microfabrication in Ceramics and Glass (Regina Knitter and Thomas R. Dietrich).

13 Industrial Applications of Microchannel Process Technology in the United States (Daniel R. Palo, Victoria S. Stenkamp, Robert A. Dagle, and Goran N. Jovanovic).

14 Industrial Applications in Europe (Thomas Bayer and Markus Kinzl).

15 Industrial Production Plants in Japan and Future Developments (Jun-ichi Yoshida and Hideho Okamoto).

16 Laboratory Applications of Microstructured Devices in Student Education (Walther Klemm, Bernd Ondruschka, Michael Köhler, and Mike Günther).

Subject Index.