Non-reactor Micro-component Development

Daniel R. Palo, Victoria S. Stenkamp, Jamie D. Holladay, Paul H. Humble, Robert A. Dagle, and Kriston P. Brooks 

In the early days of microchannel development, the key selling point involved non-reactive applications, in particular heat transfer [1-12]. Work in this area quickly demonstrated that microchannel components could provide rapid heat transfer while maintaining low pressure drop, despite the use of very narrow process channels [1, 2], From there, microchannel research expanded to a range of non-reactive- and reactive-applications, where the major advantages of this technology not only included rapid heat and mass transfer but also the precise control of process conditions, low inventory of hazardous reactants, use of surface phenomena to significant advantage, and overall process intensification [13], 

In one sense, non-reactive systems are simpler, since they do not incorporate chemical reactions, catalysts, and the associated complexities of such systems. However, some non-reactive systems can be even more complex, depending on 

Micro Instrumentation for High Throughput Experimentation and Process Intensification - a Tool for PAT 

Edited by M. V. Koch, K. M. VandenBussche and R. W. Chrisman Copyright 2007 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH Co. KGaA, Weinheim ISBN 978-3-527-31425-6 

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