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Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe Gmbh

Messerschmitt-bolkow-blohm Gmbh

Karlsruher Institut Fur Technologie

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Klaus Schubert

Hermann Luyken

Andreas Deckers

Jürgen Brandner

Bernd Klinksiek

Peter Pfab

Wilhelm Bier

Ralf Boehling

Gerd Linder

Erhard Herrmann

Thomas Menzel

Bernd Koglin

Georg Wiessmeier

Maximilian Fichtner

Harald Gleinig

Thomas Schneider

Christine Maul

Peter Bichler

Stephan Ehlers

Asim Maner

Dorde Jovcic

Roger Nyssen

Jurgen Lahrs

Christian Robl

Peter Schmid

Winfried Brunner

Thomas Schaller

Lothar Bohn

Wolfgang Simon

Gernot Becker

Herbert Wigger

Claus Gosling

Andreas Flink

Konrad Fischer

Josef Leitermann

Achim Wenka

Dieter Seidel

Lothar Weismantel

Bernd Krumbach

Hermann Dertinger

Reiner Skerhut

Manfred Kraut

Maximillian Fichtner

Roland Dittmeyer

Erhard Schuffenhauer

Gudrun Knedlitschek

Guenther Achhammer

Eugen Anurjew

Klaus Elgeti

Karlheinz Wieser

Achim Brand

Edgar Hansjosten

Karl Friedrich Weibezahn

Ulrich Schygulla

Hermann Mai

Reiner Dietsch

Oliver Görke

Armin Bartsch

Michael Kah

Rolf Wunsch

Günter Hausinger

Hermann Walter

Jessica Walter

Peter Prechtl

In a micro heat exchanger for the transfer of high area-specific amounts of heat from a heat source to a heat transfer medium, including a heat transfer structure with an inlet- and an outlet duct structure between which a plurality of passages extend through the heat transfer structure, the inlet and outlet duct structures are arranged in alternating order in the heat transfer area in close proximity to the heat source, with the inlet and outlet duct structure and the passages interconnecting the inlet and outlet structures covering the whole heat transfer area directly adjacent the heat source.

Micro heat exchanger and its use as cooler for electronic components

A mixer system for mixing at least two fluids includes a plurality of micromixers that are fluidically connected in parallel. The micromixers are integrated into a guide matrix and are fluidically connected via feed lines for the fluids to be mixed.

Mixer system, reactor and reactor system

In a microstructure apparatus for heating and atomizing a fluid with an inner body received in an outer tube, circumferential microstructure passages are formed into the inner surface of the outer tube or the outer surface of the inner body so as to form a flow passage which is provided with an inlet connector and heating means are incorporated into the inner body for heating the fluid conducted through the microstructure flow passages under pressure, the microstructure fluid passages extending spirally around the inner body so as to proved for a relatively long microstructure fluid flow passage which is open at the axial end thereof for discharging the fluid heated pressurized therein through the open axial end.

Microstructured apparatus for heating a fluid

In a static micromixer which comprises at least one mixing chamber and one guide component disposed upstream of the mixing chamber and which includes channels extending therethrough at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the micromixer, so that the channels of alternate layers intersect without communicating with each other, the cross-section of the channels decreases steadily from the entrance end to the exit end of the guide component so as to reduce the pressure losses of the fluid flowing through the channels for mixing in the mixing chamber.

Static micromixer

In a method of destroying harmful microorganisms in liquids by short term high temperature heating of the liquids in micro heat exchangers formed by stacks of metal foils having parallel microchannels, in a first step, the liquid is rapidly heated in a micro heat exchanger with a gradient of at least 200&deg; K/sec, then is maintained at the high temperature for a time period of <2 sec and is finally cooled again in a micro heat exchanger with a gradient of at least 200&deg; K/sec.

Method for destroying harmful microorganisms in liquids by short-time high temperature heating

In the process for the continuous dispersion of at least one fluid A constituting the disperse phase and at least one continuous phase constituting the enclosing phase of a fluid B, at least one fluid stream A and at least one fluid stream B are fed into a dispersion apparatus and come into contact therein in a dispersion chamber. To this end, a microstructure dispersion apparatus (,) is used in which the fluid streams A, B are broken up into spatially separate, flowing fluid filaments by a system of microchannels (,) associated therewith, which filaments are discharged into the dispersion chamber (,) at identical flow velocities for the particular fluid in such a manner that on discharge into the dispersion chamber (,) a fluid jet (,) of the disperse phase is in each case immediately adjacent to a fluid jet (,) of the continuous phase and in each case a fluid jet (,) of the disperse phase is enclosed as it is broken up into particles in the adjacent fluid jets (,) of the continuous phase.

Method of producing dispersions and carrying out of chemical reactions in the disperse phase

A method and a device for producing a dispersed mixture from at least two phases. To do this, the first and the second phase are subdivided into split streams so that the split streams from the first phase are located on a first flat layer and the split streams from the second phase are located on a second flat layer, the split streams of the first phase inside the flat layer being fed onto the split streams of the second phase at an angle in order to bring about a dispersion and mixing process, wherein the flat layers are directly arranged on top of each other, and parallel to each other. The device consists of at least one base unit containing two foils into which a parallel assembly of grooves is inserted on one side of each foil. Both foils are configured in the base unit such that the sides of the foils fitted with grooves lie on top of each other and form an angle with each other.

Method and device for producing a dispersed mixture via crossing partial flows

In the reaction process, at least two educts A, B are divided by a system, assigned to each of them, of slit-like microchannels,into spatially separate fluid lamellae, which then emerge into a common mixing and reaction space,. The fluid lamellae here have a thickness <1,000 &mgr;m, preferably <100 &mgr;m, at a width thickness ratio of at least 10. It is essential here that educts A, B can emerge as thin fluid lamellae,into the mixing/reaction space,, each fluid lamella,of an educt A being led into the mixing/reaction space,in the immediate vicinity of a fluid lamella,of another educt B. The adjacent fluid lamellae,then subsequently mix by diffusion and/or turbulence. As a result, the mixing operation is accelerated substantially compared with conventional reactors. In the case of rapid chemical reactions, the formation of undesirable by-products or secondary products is largely prevented in this manner.

Process for carrying out chemical reactions using a microlaminar mixer

A microstructures lamellae mixer comprising a guide component for supplying fluids to be mixed to a mixing chamber, the guide component being composed of a plurality of foils which are layered one above the other and into which microchannels are incorporated such that separate fluids supplied to the guide component are formed into spatially separated microstreams which then emerge adjacent to each other in a mixing chamber.

Device for carrying out chemical reactions using a microlaminar mixer

A process for rapidly mixing phosgene and an amine in the gas phase to produce the corresponding isocyanate. Micro-structure mixers are used for the rapid mixing. The educts emerge from the micro-structure mixer in the form of thin free jets which mix very rapidly by diffusion and/or turbulence. As a result, the mixing operation is accelerated substantially as compared with conventional reactors. The isocyanate yield is also increased.

Process for the phosgenation of amines in the gas phase using microstructure mixers

In a static micromixer a flow guide structure consisting of a stack of foils provided with passages formed into alternate foils so as to extend between a mixing chamber at one end of the flow guide structure and different admission chambers at the opposite end of the flow guide structure, the passages are curved so that they are all parallel at their exit ends adjacent the mixing chamber and, at their entrance ends, the flow guide structure has face areas which are inclined with respect to the exit end face of the flow guide structure at such an angle that the curved passages have all about the same length.

In a method of producing a self-focusing reflection grating structure for the series manufacture of microspectrometers including flexible foil strips provided with a grating structure and supported in a microspectrometer housing, a foil is first mounted onto a support member of an ultraprecision turning lathe on which circumferential parallel grooves are cut into the foil by microforming diamonds providing a saw-tooth pattern of annular teeth with predetermined tooth spacing, the foil is then cut into a plurality of foil strips and the strips are bent into a curved shape providing a focusing reflection grating structure.

Method of producing a microspectrometer reflection grating

Aqueous pigment preparations

In a static micromixer for mixing at least two fluids including a flow guide structure having a longitudinal axis extending in the general flow direction of the fluids through the guide structure, separate fluid admission areas disposed at the entrance end of the flow guide structure and a mixing chamber disposed at the exit end of the flow guide structure, the flow guide structure is formed by foils of a thickness of about 100 .mu.m disposed on top of each other and having parallel grooves extending in one foil from one of the fluid admission areas at an angle with respect to the general fluid flow direction through the flow guide structure to the mixing chamber and in an adjacent foil from another of the fluid admission areas to the mixing chamber such that in the mixing chamber the fluid exits of different foils are disposed adjacent each other, the grooves having a width of less than 250 .mu.m and being spaced from each other by less than 70 .mu.m to provide for the fluid flow filaments entering the mixing chamber at different angles and closely adjacent each other.

Static micromixer with heat exchanger

In an apparatus for culturing cells which comprises a plate-like body with a lattice structure having openings separated from one another by sidewalls and a bottom disposed on one side of the lattice structure and having passages permeable for liquids but not for cells so as to form, with the lattice structure, cavities for receiving cells to be grown therein, the cavities have a clear width of between 50 .mu.m and 1000 .mu.m and the bottom consists of a material to which cells placed into the cavities will not easily attach so that the cells grow from the side walls of the cavities causing them to form a three-dimensional cell structure.

Substrate for cell structures

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