Microfluidization treatment

Iordache, M. and Jelen, P. (2003). High pressure microfluidization treatment of heat denatured whey proteins for improved functionality. Innou. Food Sci. Emerg. Technol. 4, 367-376. 

Bioaffinity chromatography, 6 399—400 Bioantimutagen, vanillin as, 25 556 Bioassay dyes, 9 518 Bioassays, microfluidics in, 26 968-969 Bioaugmentation, defined, 3 758t Bioaugmentation/bioremediation effluent treatment, 9 436, 438 Bioavailability, of antisense oligonucleotides, 17 628 Biocatalysis, 3 668-683 16 395. See also Biocatalyst entries... 

To help understand what occurs, imagine that we have A and B available, each first as a microfluid, and then as a macrofluid. In one beaker mix micro A with micro B, and in another beaker mix macro A with macro B and let them react. What do we find Micro A and B behave in the expected manner, and reaction occurs. However, on mixing the macrofluids no reaction takes place because molecules of A cannot contact molecules of B. These two situations are illustrated in Fig. 16.4. So much for the treatment of the two extremes in behavior. 

Although the premix membrane emulsification can yield larger fluxes with respect to direct membrane emulsification neither methods using surface-energy minimization nor microfluid dynamics approaches have been until now reported on the theoretical treatment of the premix membrane emulsification. 

Walker, G.M., Piston, D.W., McGuinness, P.O., Rocheleau, J.V., A microfluidic device for partical surface treatment of islets of Langerhans. Micro Total Analysis Systems 2003, Proceedings 7th pTAS Symposium, Squaw Valley, CA, Oct. 5-9, 2003, 543-546. 

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