Operation of microfluidic liquid slug formation and slug design for kinetics measurement

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 62, Issue 18-20, 2007, Pages 5133-5136

  Matsuyama, Kazuo ^a   Tanthapanichakoon, Wiroon ^a   Aoki, Nobuaki ^a   Mae, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Laminar flow; Microfluidic liquid slug; Mixing; Modified Peclet number; Multiphase flow

Indexed keywords

KINETICS MEASUREMENT; LIQUID SLUG; MIXING RATES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW RATE; LAMINAR FLOW; MIXING; PECLET NUMBER; SEWAGE SLUDGE;

MICROFLUIDICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW RATE; LAMINAR FLOW; MICROFLUIDICS; MIXING; PECLET NUMBER; SEWAGE SLUDGE;

EID: 34547988229     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2007.02.004     Document Type: Article

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