Microprocess engineering

Hessel, V., Hardt, S., and Lowe, H. "Chemical Microprocess Engineering. Fundamentals, Modelling and Reactions". Wiley VCH Verlag GmbH Co. KGaA, Weinheim... 

In 2004, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) gave microprocess engineering a research priority under its frame program Microsystems [46]. In 2005, six industrial cooperation projects were launched, supervised by the funding agency VDI/VDE-IT, which are described in detail in the following. The target is the development of pilot plants for different reactions in several application fields for... 

Chemical MicroProcess Engineering -Fundamentals, Modeling and Reactions,... 

Table 1.1 Examples of industries/institutes active in microprocess engineering.

The balance equations for mass, momentum and energy describe the entire flow situation. The continuity assumption of smooth fluid properties and no-shp flow conditions at the wall hold for most cases in microprocess engineering, hence the change in density p with time is correlated with the velocity vector w as... 

This huge potential makes the neglect of process analysis in microprocess engineering even more astonishing. Today, only very little literature is available that describes the use of PAT in microchemical processes. It seems that flieir obvious advantages have not yet been noticed, although the integration of PAT units into microreactors is well known in the p-TAS community. 

V. Hessel, S. Hardt, H. Lowe, Chemical Microprocess Engineering, Fundamentals, Modelling and Reactions, 1st ed., Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim, 2004, pp. 379-650. 

These designs have been implemented mostly at the macroscale (industrial or laboratory scale), but many developments at the microscale have also been reported under the trendy headline of chemical microprocess engineering, not only for laboratory-scale measurements but also at the production scale [21, 22]. Guettel and Turek [23] compared microstructured... 

As MSRs are studied in the field of microprocess engineering, together with other devices, in which physical processes occur, some combinations can be found such as stack-like reactors with or integrating external heating and cross-fiow/counterflow heat exchangers/reactors, the last one being used mainly for evaporation purposes. 

For books on microprocess engineering, see (a) Hessel, V., Renken, A., Schouten, J.C., and Yoshida, J.-l. (2009) Handbook of Micro Process Engineering, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim (b) Hessel, V., Loewe, H Mueller, A., and Kolb, G. (2005)... 

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