New nuclear reactor designs that incorporate heat pipes are being investigated for possible near-term deployment in terrestrial applications. This study explores the use of screen-covered axially grooved sodium and their applicability providing removal microreactors. A working fluid is appropriate microreactors operating 5 to 20 MW(thermal) range at approximately 650°C. HTPIPE, a legacy softwar...

In the last twenty years, application of microreactors in chemical and biochemical industrial processes has increased significantly. The use microreactor systems ensures efficient process intensification due to excellent heat mass transfer within microchannels. Monitoring concentrations microchannels is critical for a better understanding physical occurring micromixers microreactors. Therefore,...

A polydimethylsiloxane-based microfluidic device allows monitoring local oxidation events in organic solvents at the level of an individual air bubble armored with surface-active low-surface energy catalytic particles. This new technique permits tunable design microreactors for gas-liquid-solid reactions.

Nowadays, when fossil fuel recourses are decreasing rapidly, biodiesel fuels are becoming more and more interesting. Being environmentally beneficial, biodegradable, non-toxic and with low pollution emission makes biodiesel interesting for consumption. Various methods have been reported for biodiesel production such as microemulsification, pyrolysis and transesterification. Main problems of thi...

Mathematical modeling of biochemical pathways is an important resource in Synthetic Biology, as the predictive power of simulating synthetic pathways represents an important step in the design of synthetic metabolons. In this paper, we are concerned with the mathematical modeling, simulation, and optimization of metabolic processes in biochemical microreactors able to carry out enzymatic reacti...

Simulations are needed to predict various parameters for chemical reactions and error propagation in microfluidic networks. This paper studies the impact of the order of microreactors implementing a fluidic network on the error in solutions for Boolean expressions. Additionally, we present a computer program that augments the software toolkit introduced in our previous work. The program is usef...

Fig. 1. An integrated microflow reactor system consisting of four micromixers and four microtube reactors. Driven by remarkable improvements in our understanding of factors governing organic reactions, the role of organic synthesis has been expanded to various fields of science and technology, such as new materials and new medicinal agents. Because of rapid progress in such fields, demands for ...

The ultrasound-assisted (UA) soybean oil methanolysis using KOH as a catalyst was studied at different reaction conditions in a microreactor. Box–Behnken experimental design, with three variables, was performed and the effects of three reaction variables i.e. reaction temperature, catalyst concentration and the methanol-to-oil molar ratio on fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) yield were evaluated b...