A numerical study of 3D electrokinetic flows through micromixers was performed. The micromixers considered here consisted of heterogeneous rectangular microchannels with prescribed patterns of zeta-potential at their walls. Numerical simulation of electroosmotic flows within heterogeneous channels requires solution of the Navier-Stokes, Ernest-Plank and species concentration equations. It is kn...

Over the last century a number of techniques have been developed which allow the measurement of the dielectric properties of biological particles in fluid suspension. The majority of these techniques are limited by the fact that they only provide an average value for the dielectric properties of a collection of particles. More recently, with the advent of microfabrication techniques and the Lab...

Since the turn of the twentieth century, it has been recognized that many drugs, agrochemicals, food additives and fragrances are chiral compounds and their chirality may considerably affect their bioactive behavior [1, 2]. The demand has been increasing for new analytical methods with high selectivity and efficiency. Chiral separation has become an attractive and important field in the separat...

We have extended our “EKP-postprocessor” (Ishido and Pritchett, 1996) to calculate electrokinetic potentials in fractured geothermal reservoirs that are represented computationally as “MINC” doubleporosity media. In such reservoir descriptions, global mass exchange between adjacent macroscopic computational grid blocks takes place mainly through the “fracture zone”. Inter-block flow through the...

Electrokinetic (EK) techniques can effectively mobilize amendments and contaminants in porous media therefore have a great potential for situ subsurface remediation of wide variety organic inorganic contaminants. However, the fundamental mechanisms governing EK applications are complex entail coupling between different flow, transport, electrostatic geochemical processes. In this study we inves...

A mathematical model of an acoustoelectric transducer based on the use electrokinetic phenomenon flow potential is proposed. It shown theoretically that increases in proportion to strength constant electric pumping field, which confirmed experimentally. The described converter has variable sensitivity. Rather large values sensitivity microphone have been obtained results work can be used design...

This paper describes the application of a combined orthogonal array design and overlapping resolution mapping to the optimization of miceller electrokinetic chromatography for the separation of 10 substituted benzenes. The most important factors were first determined according to an OA16(2(15)) through 16 pre-designed experiments; a second set of experiments was carried out according to a trian...

We present a theory to investigate electrokinetic behavior, namely, electrorotation and dielectrophoresis under alternating current (ac) applied fields for a pair of touching inhomogeneous colloidal particles and biological cells. These inhomogeneous particles are treated as graded ones with physically motivated model dielectric and conductivity profiles. The mutual polarization interaction bet...