Feasibility of membrane processes for the recovery and purification of bio-based volatile fatty acids: A comprehensive review

SA Aktij, A Zirehpour, A Mollahosseini… - Journal of Industrial and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Volatile fatty acids (VFAs) can be produced from fermentation/anaerobic digestion of wastes
and are a valuable substrate for numerous applications, such as those related to the food …

Merits and advances of microfluidics in the pharmaceutical field: design technologies and future prospects

A Maged, R Abdelbaset, AA Mahmoud… - Drug delivery, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Microfluidics is used to manipulate fluid flow in micro-channels to fabricate drug delivery
vesicles in a uniform tunable size. Thanks to their designs, microfluidic technology provides …

Micromixing within microfluidic devices: Fundamentals, design, and fabrication

S Cai, Y **, Y Lin, Y He, P Zhang, Z Ge, W Yang - Biomicrofluidics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
As one of the hot spots in the field of microfluidic chip research, micromixers have been
widely used in chemistry, biology, and medicine due to their small size, fast response time …

Numerical and experimental investigation of mixing enhancement in the passive planar mixer with bent baffles

S Yuan, B Jiang, F Jiang, D Drummer… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
As an important pre-treatment part of the micro-total analysis system, the micromixer that
ensures the uniform mixing of samples and reagents in a short distance is essential for the …

Increasing biodiesel production yield in narrow channel tubular reactors

E Baydir, O Aras - Chemical Engineering and Processing-Process …, 2022 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study is to augment the FAME yield by increasing the contact surface of
the reactants that do not mix with each other in continuous biodiesel production. For this aim …

Development of a new micromixer “Elis” for fluid mixing and organic reactions in millidevices

HS Santana, JL Silva Jr, AGP da Silva… - Industrial & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
An efficient fluid mixing performance was achieved at the micro-and milliscale by a new
design “Elis” in a wide range of Reynolds numbers. The micromixer is composed of internal …

Chemical characterization of oil and biodiesel from Common Purslane (Portulaca) seed as novel weed plant feedstock

SS Hoseini, G Najafi, A Sadeghi - Industrial Crops and Products, 2019 - Elsevier
In this research, Portulaca seed oil was studied as a feedstock for biodiesel production.
Portulaca is a type of weed that is able to grow in most weather conditions. The process of …

Modeling and simulation of a split and recombination-based passive micromixer with vortex-generating mixing units

IZ Nishu, MF Samad - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
As a state-of-the-art technology, micromixers are being used in various chemical and
biological processes, including polymerization, extraction, crystallization, organic synthesis …

Design, optimization and scale-up of a new micromixer design based on plate column for organic synthesis

HS Santana, VA Haddad, PVC Calvo… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
The present paper introduces a full methodology for design, optimization and rapid
prototy** of a new micromixer inspired on plate column tray, capable of operating under a …

Smart scale-up of micromixers for efficient continuous biodiesel synthesis: A numerical study for process intensification

JL Silva Jr, MSC Celestino, OP Taranto… - … and Processing-Process …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study focuses on develo** continuous processes for biodiesel synthesis, overcoming
limitations of conventional batch reactions, such as biphasic reaction and thermodynamic …