Desktop Chemical Factory

The desktop chemical factory (DCF) system covers all kinds of the miniaturized chemical production systems against conventional large... 

Desktop Chemical Factory, Fig. 1 Desktop machining microfactory. A prototype desktop machining microfactory developed by the Mechanical Engineering Laboratory of Japan [3]... 

Desktop Chemical Factory, Fig. 2 Silicon-based microreaction system that produces hydrogen gas from various fuel sources, (a) Schematic, (b)... 

Desktop Chemical Factory, Fig. 5 United microreactor system. Example of a modular backbone 1 heat exchanger, 2 mixer, 3 valve, 4 safety valve, 5 pump, 6 heated residence time module, 7 mixer-settler extractor, 8 heated mixer tube reactor, 9 thermal decoupler [12]... 

Desktop Chemical Factory, Fig. 6 Integrated microreactor system. Integrated microreactor system for gas-phase catalytic reactions [13]... 

A desktop chemical factory (DCF) can be deployed as a pilot plant to produce a small scale of chemicals. Many patents on novel microreactors and microengineering processes related with the DCF system have been published. Although one of the earliest patents on new micro structured device was proposed in 1977, the number of patents has been consistently increased from the early 1990s [14]. The main contents of these patents were the micro-fabrication and assembly of device, tabletop systems, fluidic platforms, united system, and process controls. Most of the patents were focused on how to control microreaction processes. 

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