Microreaction Technology: Industrial Prospects

1 Opening Lectures.- Process Intensification Through Miniaturization of Chemical and Thermal Systems in the 21st Century.- Implementation of Microreaction Technology in Process Engineering.- 2 Design and Production of Microreactor Systems.- Lecture Session.- Fabrication and Application of Silicon-based Microchannels.- Macroporous and Mesoporous Silicon: New Materials for Microfluidic and Microreaction Devices.- The Effect of Shape Variation in Microlamination on the Performance of High-Aspect-Ratio, Metal Microchannel Arrays.- Fabrication of MicroChannel Chemical Reactors Using a Metal Lamination Process.- Poster Session.- Microreactor Technology for Biological Applications.- Laserprocessing for Manufacturing Microfluidic Devices.- Functional Coatings for Microstructure Reactors and Heat Exchangers.- Polymer Nanowell Plates with Variable Well Slope Angles.- Micro Molding of Fluidic Devices for Biochemical Applications.- 3 Microreactors in Combinatorial Chemistry.- Lecture Session.- Combinatorial Organic Compound Libraries on Continuous Surfaces: Towards Chemical Chips.- 4 Microreactors in Production Processes.- Lecture Session.- Electrochemical Microreactors: A New Approach for Microreaction Technology.- High Temperature HCN Generation in an Integrated Microreaction System...- Micro Mixing Effects in Continuous Radical Polymerization.- Novel Liquid Phase Microreactors for Safe Production of Hazardous Specialty Chemicals.- Experiences with the Use of Microreactors in Organic Synthesis.- A Microstructured Reactor for the Catalytic Partial Oxidation of Methane to Syngas.- Expansion of Microreactor Capabilities through Improved Thermal Management and Catalyst Deposition.- Synthesis of Ethylene Oxide in a Microreaction System.- Selective Reactions in MicroChannel Reactors.- Periodic Operation in MicroChannel Reactors.- Poster Session.- Micro-Reactor Synthesis: Synthesis of Cyanobiphenyls Using a Modified Suzuki Coupling of an Aryl Halide and Aryl Boronic Acid.- Optimization of Reaction-Separation Networks via Mass Integration on the ?-Scale.- Modelling of Gas-Liquid Catalytic Reactions in Microchannels.- Simultaneous Screening of Catalysts in Microchannels: Methodology and Experimental Setup.- Palladium Membrane Microreactors.- A Micro Packed-Bed Reactor for Chemical Synthesis.- Parallel Synthesis and Testing of Heterogeneous Catalysts.- Single Flow Electrochemical Microreactor Application to Furan Methoxylation.- 5 Microfluidics.- Lecture Session.- Microfluidic Devices for Sample Preparation (Liquid) in the Nanoliter Range.- Liquid Handling in the Pico- and Nanoliter Range.- Flow-Through Microdispenser for Liquid Handling in a Levitated-Droplet Based Analyzing System.- Simulation of Microscale Chemical Separation Processes Using the Lattice-Boltzmann Method.- Modelling of Complex Reaction-Separation Processes in a D.C. Electric Field in Microchannels.- Poster Session.- Microporous Silica Structures for the Immobilisation of Catalysts and Enhancement of Electroosmotic Flow (EOF) in Micro-Reactors.- A New Hydraulic Stroke Amplifier for Microfluidic Components.- 6 Microreactors for Energy Generation and Storage.- Lecture Session.- Microchannel Chemical Reactors for Fuel Processing Applications. II. Compact Fuel Vaporization.- Microstructured Catalysts for Methanol-Steam Reforming.- Fuel Cells for Low Power Applications.- Poster Session.- Recent Developments in Microtechnology-Based Chemical Heat Pumps.- Miniaturised Direct Methanol Fuel Cell with a Plasma Polymerised Electrolyte Membrane.- 7 Application of Microreactors in Drug Development and Biotechnology.- Lecture Session.- Rapid PCR in Flow-Through Si Chip Thermocyclers.- Disposable Electrophoresis Chip for High Throughput Analysis of Biomolecules.- A Micromachined Analysis System for Rapid Protein Identification.- Simulation of Biochemical Reaction Kinetics in Microfluidic Systems.- Microfluidic Devices on Polymer Substrates for Bioanalytical Applications.- Poster Session.- Transfer of Plasmid DNA into Cells with Microelectroporation Arrays on a Chip.- On-line Monitoring of Enzyme Activities Using Microreactor Heat Power Meters.- Isothermal Biochemical Amplification in Miniaturized Reactors with Integrated Microvalves.- Microfluidic Filtration Chip for DNA Extraction and Concentration.- 8 Commercialization of Microreaction Technology.- Lecture Session.- The Commercial Use of Multilayer Microcapsules for Biotechnological Applications.- 9 Microreaction Devices.- Lecture Session.- A Capillary Force Filled Auto-Mixing Device.- Fast Heating and Cooling for High Temperature Chemical Microreactors.- Gas/Liquid Microreactors for Direct Fluorination of Aromatic Compounds Using Elemental Fluorine.- Solvent Extraction and Gas Absorption Using MicroChannel Contactors.- Poster Session.- Polymer Membranes for Product Enrichment in Microreaction Technology.- Compact Heat Exchangers.- Optimizing the Geometry of a Catalytic Enzyme Microreactor in Porous Silicon.- High Aspect Ratio Silicon Micromachined Heat Exchanger.- Comparison of Two Microvalve Designs Fabricated in Mild Steel.- Integrated Microfluidics/Electrochemical Sensor System for Field-Monitoring of Toxic Metals.- Thermoelectrical Measurement System for Chemical Instrumentation.- Electrically Heated Microstructure Heat Exchangers and Reactors.- Analytical Module for In-line IR Spectroscopy of Chemical Reactions in Microchannels.- A Microstructure Reactor for Gas Purification.- A Flexible Multi-Component Microreaction System for Liquid Phase Reactions.- Fast Response Heating Module for Temperature Programmed GC Analysis in Microreaction Systems.- A Silicon-based Microreaction System for Analytical Applications.- Designing and Constructing Microplants.- A Modular Microreactor Design for High-Temperature Catalytic Oxidation Reactions.- Microstructured Reactor for Consecutive Heterogeneous/Homogeneous Gas Phase Reactions.