Chip-Tube Micro Reactors

This class of hybrid components comprises chip micro-reactor devices, as described in Section 4.1.3, connected to conventional tubing. This may be H PLC tubing which sometimes has as small internals as micro channels themselves. The main function of the tubing is to provide longer residence times. Sometimes, flow through the tube produces characteristic flow patterns such as in slug-flow tube reactors. Chip-tube micro reactors are typical examples of multi-scale architecture (assembly of components of hybrid origin). 

D microfabricated micro mixers (see Section 4.1.5) may be connected to tubes for reasons of residence time prolongation, similar to chip-tube micro reactors (see Section 4.1.4). The tube may also have the function of creating distinct hydro-dynamic features (see Section 4.1.4). 

A chip-type micro reactor array comprises parallel mixer units composed of inverse mixing tees, each followed by a micro channel that it is surrounded by heat exchange micro channels (so called channel-by-channel approach similar to the tube-in-tube concept). Such an integrated device was developed as a stack of microstructured plates made of a special glass, termed Foturan (Figure 4.26). The integrated device was attached to PTFE tubes of various lengths. 

Reactor type Liquid/liquid micro chip disUibutor-tube reactor Capillary tube length (reactor) 500-1800 mm... 

This system is a chip version of three dimensional micro mixer-tube reactor setups [21]. It comprises a triangular interdigital micro mixer with a focusing zone that thins the multi-lamellae and a subsequent reaction channel that is surrounded... 

Reactor 16 [R 1 Liquid-Liquid Micro Chip Distributor-Tube Reactor... 

Reactor type Liquid-liquid micro chip distributor- tube reactor Tube diameters (PTFE) 150 pm 178 pm... 

Reactor 17 [R 17] Fork-like Chip Micro Mixer-Tube Reactor... 

Reactor type Fork-like chip micro mixer-tube reactor Characteristic structure of the mixing stage G structure ... 

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