Microreaction technology : industrial prospects : IMRET 3 : proceedings of the Third International Conference on Microreaction. Technology

Miniaturization has cost and time-saving advantages for numerous applications in chemistry, pharmacy, medicine and biotechnology. Additionally, microreaction technology offers new solutions for the automobile industry and environmental technology, e.g. fuel cells, or mobile sensor systems for on-the-spot analysis. Therefore, the 3rd International Conference on Microreaction Technology - IMRET 3 is an important forum for creating awareness of the wide variety of the new trends in this up-and-coming discipline. 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 Front Matter....Pages 123-123 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. 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Compact Fuel Vaporization....Pages 364-371 Microstructured Catalysts for Methanol-Steam Reforming....Pages 372-382 Fuel Cells for Low Power Applications....Pages 383-393 Front Matter....Pages 363-363 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 Front Matter....Pages 499-499 The commercial use of multilayer microcapsules for biotechnological applications....Pages 500-504 Front Matter....Pages 505-505 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