Thermoformed fluoropolymer tubing for in-line mixing
We present a thermoforming method to make in-line micromixer in commercial fluoropolymer tubing. The technique is low-cost and easy to implement in the laboratory. Tested by dye tracing experiments, the tubular micromixers with surface screw patterns demonstrate excellent performance as characterize...
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| author | Wang, Kai Zhang, Haomiao Shen, Yi Adamo, Andrea Jensen, Klavs F |
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| description | We present a thermoforming method to make in-line micromixer in commercial fluoropolymer tubing. The technique is low-cost and easy to implement in the laboratory. Tested by dye tracing experiments, the tubular micromixers with surface screw patterns demonstrate excellent performance as characterized by the Villermaux–Dushman reaction and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. Results show that the formed static mixer performs better than coiled and straight tubes for the low Reynolds number (Re < 100) regime encountered in many laboratory flow chemistry experiments. The observations correlate well with residence time distribution (RTD) experiments revealing reduced dispersion. The improved performance of the screw-tube mixers is attributed to the forced rotating flow around the central axis. The new static mixer structures are employed in the synthesis of gold nanoparticles with high yield and narrower size distribution particles compared to results with coiled tubes. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1174892022-10-02T06:00:40Z Thermoformed fluoropolymer tubing for in-line mixing Wang, Kai Zhang, Haomiao Shen, Yi Adamo, Andrea Jensen, Klavs F Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering Wang, Kai Zhang, Haomiao Shen, Yi Adamo, Andrea Jensen, Klavs F We present a thermoforming method to make in-line micromixer in commercial fluoropolymer tubing. The technique is low-cost and easy to implement in the laboratory. Tested by dye tracing experiments, the tubular micromixers with surface screw patterns demonstrate excellent performance as characterized by the Villermaux–Dushman reaction and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. Results show that the formed static mixer performs better than coiled and straight tubes for the low Reynolds number (Re < 100) regime encountered in many laboratory flow chemistry experiments. The observations correlate well with residence time distribution (RTD) experiments revealing reduced dispersion. The improved performance of the screw-tube mixers is attributed to the forced rotating flow around the central axis. The new static mixer structures are employed in the synthesis of gold nanoparticles with high yield and narrower size distribution particles compared to results with coiled tubes. 2018-08-22T19:03:25Z 2018-08-22T19:03:25Z 2018-07 2018-06 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2058-9883 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117489 Wang, Kai et al. “Thermoformed Fluoropolymer Tubing for in-Line Mixing.” Reaction Chemistry & Engineering (2018) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7933-3155 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0370-6407 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7192-580X en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8RE00112J Reaction Chemistry & Engineering Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ application/pdf Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Royal Society of Chemistry |
| spellingShingle | Wang, Kai Zhang, Haomiao Shen, Yi Adamo, Andrea Jensen, Klavs F Thermoformed fluoropolymer tubing for in-line mixing |
| title | Thermoformed fluoropolymer tubing for in-line mixing |
| title_full | Thermoformed fluoropolymer tubing for in-line mixing |
| title_fullStr | Thermoformed fluoropolymer tubing for in-line mixing |
| title_full_unstemmed | Thermoformed fluoropolymer tubing for in-line mixing |
| title_short | Thermoformed fluoropolymer tubing for in-line mixing |
| title_sort | thermoformed fluoropolymer tubing for in line mixing |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117489 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7933-3155 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0370-6407 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7192-580X |
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