Microchemical Engineering in Practice

1.1 The Impact of Micro-Technologies in Chemical Processing (Jean F. Jenck).

Chapter 2: Microfluidic Modules.

2.1 Materials and Production Technology.

2.1.1 Micro-reactors built of metallic materials (Frank N. Herbstritt).

2.1.2 Microreactors built of insulating materials (Norbert Schwesinger and Andreas Freitag).

2.2 Unit Operations.

2.2.1: Micromixers (Jo¶lle Aubin and Catherine Xuereb).

2.2.2. Micro-Channel Heat Exchangers and Reactors (Mark George Kirby and Svend Rumbold).

2.2.3. Separation Units (Asterios Gavriilidis and John Edward Andrew Shaw).

2.3 Calculations and Simulations (Dieter Bothe).

Chapter 3: Peripheric Equipment.

3.1. Dosage Equipment (Asif Karim and Wolfgang Loth).

3.2 Micromachined sensors for microreactors (Jan Dziuban).

3.3 Automating Micro Process Systems (Thomas Mller-Heinzerling).

Chapter 4: Microreaction Plants.

4.1 Strategies for lab scale development (Dirk Kischneck).

4.2. Microreaction Systems for Education (Marcel A. Liauw and Dina E. Treu).

4.3 Microreaction Systems for Large-Scale Production (Anna Lee Y. Tonkovich and Eric A. Daymo).

4.4 Process intensification (Michael Matlosz and Ing. Hab. Laurent Falk).

4.5 Standardisation in Micro Process Engineering (Alexis Bazzanella).

Chapter 5: Applications.

5.1 Polymerization in Microfluidic Reactors (Eugenia Kumacheva, Hong Zhang, and Zhihong Nie).

5.2. Photo Reactions (Teijiro Ichimura, Yoshihisa Matsushita, Kosaku Sakeda, Tadashi Suzuki).

5.3 Intensification of catalytic process by micro-structured reactors: opportunities and limits (Kiwi Minsker and Albert Renken).

5.4 Separation Units (Bernd Nidetzky and Malene S. Thomsen).

5.5 Multiphase Reactions (J.G.E. (Han) Gardeniers).