Chemical Micro Process Engineering – Fundamentals, Modelling and Reactions

Volker Hessel, born 1964, was appointed Vice Director R&D and Head of the Chemical Process Development Department at the Institut fur Mikrotechnik Mainz GmbH (IMM) in 2002. The development areas of his department encompass the fields of mixing and reaction engineering, process and engineering and heterogeneous catalysis, and electrochemical processes. In 1999 he became Head of the newly founded Department of Microreaction Technology, the predecessor organization of the above mentioned department. In 1996, he was appointed Group Leader for Microreaction Technology. In 1994, he joined the IMM as an employee, He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Mainz in the field of organic chemistry in 1993, investigating structure-property relations of supramolecular structures. His is author of more than 70 publications in the field of organic chemistry and chemical micro process engineering and 15 patents. Steffen Hardt, born 1966, was appointed Head of the Fluidics & Simulation Department at Institut fur Mikrotechnik Mainz GmbH (IMM) in 2001. He joined IMM in 1997 as an employee and became Group Leader for modeling and simulation in 1999. The activities of his department are centred around the development and simulation of micro fluids systems. Among his areas of interest are fluidic actuators, multi-phase micro flows, micro mixers, gas-phase reactors and Lab-on-a-Chip systems. Before he became involved in micro fluidics, he worked in the field of theoretical elementary particle physics. He studied physics at the University of Giessen and the University of Washington/Seattle and obtained his Ph.D. with a thesis on quark models. He is author of more than 30 publications in the field of microfluidics, modeling, and theoretical physics and 10 patents. Holger Lowe, born in 1953, was appointed Director R&D at Institut fur Mikrotechnik Mainz GmbH (Imm) in 1999. Prior, he was head of the Chemistry/Microreaction Technology Department, after being Group Leader of the Electrochemsitry Group. In 1991, he joined the IMM as an employee. In 1984, he moved to the Faculty of Electrochemistry at the Technical College in Ilmenau. There he was Head of the chemical sector at the internal college. Also in 1984, he attained his Ph.D. on alkylation of phenols. From 1977 to 1984, he worked as Research Group Leader at the Filmfabrik Wolffen. He studied chemistry at the University of Leipzig. He is author of more than 280 publications and 30 patents.

A MULTI-FACETED, HIERARCHIC ANALYSIS OF CHEMICAL MICRO PROCESS TECHNOLOGY Micro Reactor Differentiation and Process Intensification Consequences of Chemical Micro Processing Physical and Chemical Implications Impact on Chemical Engineering Impact on Process Engineering Impact on Process Results Impact on Society and Ecology Impact on Economy Application Fields and Markets of Micro Reactors MODELLING AND SIMULATION OF MICRO REACTORS Flow Phenomena on the Microscale Methods of Computational Fluid Dynamics Flow Distributions Heat Transfer Mass Transfer and Mixing Reaction Kinetics and Modelling Free Surface Flow Flow in Porous Media GAS-PHASE REACTIONS Catalyst Coatings in Micro Channels Micro Reactors for Gas-Phase Reactions Oxidations Hydrogenations Dehydrogenations Substitutions Eliminations Additions and Coupling Reactions LIQUID- AND LIQUID/LIQUID-PHASE REACTIONS Micro Reactors for Liquid-Phase and Liquid/Liquid-Phase Reactions Aliphatic Nucleophilic and Electrophilic Substitution such as Esterification, Acylation of Amines, Thiocyanation, and much more Aromatic Electrophilic and Nucleophilic Substitution such as Nitrations, Amino-de-halogenations, Diazo Chemistry, and much more Metal-catalyzed Aromatic Substitution such as Suzuki and Sonogashira Couplings, and more Free Radical Substitution such as Alkane Nitration Addition to Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-hetero Multiple Bonds such as the Michael Addition, the Diels-Alder-Reaction, the Aldol Reaction, and much more Oxidations and Reductions Eliminations and Rearrangements Inorganic Reactions such as the Belousov-Zhabotinskii-Reaction, Complex Formations, and much more GAS/LIQUID CONTACTING Micro Reactors for Gas/Liquid Contacting Aromatic Electrophilic Substitution such as Direct Fluorinations Free Radical Substitution such as Alkane Fluorinations and Chlorinations Addition to Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-hetero Multiple Bonds such as Nitro-group Hydrogenation, Cycloalkane Hydrogenation, and more Oxidations and Reductions such as Alcohol Oxidation, Photo Diels-Alder Reactions, and more Inorganic Reactions such as Sulfite Oxidation