Microfluidics in Chemical Engineering: Flow and Reaction, Microreaction, On-line Detection, and Product Engineering

Microfluidics for Chemical Engineering: Flow and Reaction, Microreaction, On-line Detection, and Product Engineering presents the fundamentals of microfluidic flow and dispersion and provides new insights for the use of microfluidics in the field of chemical engineering. It provides a timely, comprehensive, and detailed overview, demonstrating state-of-the-art methodology, research advances, classic instances, and providing insightful, forward-looking perspectives. The contents range through the flow and dispersion in microfluidics, microreaction regulation via the coalesce and transfer of droplets, to product engineering regarding controllable fabrication of microparticles and microfibers with advanced functions. The chapters clearly summarize the design concepts and general strategies involved as well as the involved mechanisms and classic instances. Instructive advice is also featured throughout on rational regulation of multiphase flows and interfaces in microfluidics, thus offering guidance for process intensification of chemical engineering. Microfluidics for Chemical Engineering will be a definitive reference resource familiarizing the reader with state-of-the-art research frontiers in the field. It is primarily written for advanced graduate/postdoc students and researchers chemical engineering, but with relevance to materials scientists, physical and materials (including polymer) chemists, physicists, biochemists, as well as pharmaceutical and biomedical scientists. Systematic and comprehensive overview of microfluidic processes, devices, and applications for chemical engineeringSpecial attention given to relevant chemical engineering applications, such as reaction, environmental, and particle engineeringVivid schematics and illustrations throughout the book enhance the accessibility to the relevant theory and technologiesExamines previously poorly covered topics such as membrane and microvalve sensors and covers microfluidic production of functional particles and fibers in detail INDICE: 1. IntroductionPart I - Multiphase flow and dispersion in microfluidics2. Controllable microfluidic dispersion of microscale fluids3. Formation mechanisms of droplets in microfluidics4. Hydrodynamics of multiphase flows in microfluidics5. Scale-up of microfluidic devices for high-throughput droplet productionPart II - Microfluidics for microreaction6. Controllable coalescence of droplets in microflow for microreaction7. Transfer of droplets across microfluidic laminar interfaces for microreaction8. Smart microfluidic devices equipped with responsive nanocatalysts for tunable microreactionPART III - Microfluidics for product engineering9. Microfluidic fabrication of functional homogeneous microparticles10. Microfluidic fabrication of functional porous microparticles11. Microfluidic fabrication of functional core-shell microparticles12. Microfluidic fabrication of functional multicompartmental microparticles13. Microfluidic fabrication of functional non-spherical microparticles14. Microfluidic fabrication of functional microfibers15. Summary and outlook

• ISBN: 978-0-443-27306-3
• Editorial: Elsevier Science
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 352
• Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2025
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés