Micro Process Engineering Fundamentals, Devices, Fabrication, and Applications

This edition of 'Micro Process Engineering' was originally published in the successful series 'Advanced Micro & Nanosystems'.
Authors from leading industrial players and research institutions present a concise and didactical introduction to Micro Process Engineering, the combination of microtechnology and process engineering into a most promising and powerful tool for revolutionizing chemical processes and industrial mass production of bulk materials, fine chemicals, pharmaceuticals and many other products.

The book takes the readers from the fundamentals of engineering methods, transport processes, and fluid dynamics to device conception, simulation and modelling, control interfaces and issues of modularity and compatibility. Fabrication strategies and techniques are examined next, focused on the fabrication of suitable microcomponents from various materials such as metals, polymers, silicon, ceramics and glass.
The book concludes with actual applications and operational aspects of micro process systems, giving broad coverage to industrial efforts in America, Europe and Asia as well as laboratory equipment and education.

Norbert Kockmann is Professor in the Faculty of Bio- and Chemical Engineering at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany. Previously he has been senior researcher at the Lonza company in Basel, Switzerland, from 2007 to 2011, and project and group leader at the Institute of Microsystem Technology (IMTEK) of the University of Freiburg from 2001 to 2007. He began his studies of aerospace engineering in 1985 at the Technical University of Munich. After completing his diploma, he joined the production technology department at Bremen University in 1991 to obtain his PhD in technical thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer. In 1997, he joined the Messer Griesheim company as a trainee and went on to become project leader of a syngas plant for the production of carbon monoxide. His research interests include the construction and manufacture of components for microsystems as well as the fundamental processes in microsystems.

Process Engineering Methods and Microsystem Technology
Momentum and Heat Transfer in Microsized Devices
Transport Processes and Exchange Equipment
Multiphase Flow, Evaporation, and Condensation at the Microscale
Generation and Multiphase Flow of Emulsions in Microchannels
Chemical Reactions in Continuous-flow Microstructured Reactors
Design Process and Project Management
Simulation and Analytical Modeling for Microreactor Design
Integration of Sensors and Process-analytical Techniques
Microfabrication in Metals and Polymers
Silicon Microfabrication for Microfluidics
Microfabrication in Ceramics and Glass
Industrial Applications of Microchannel Process Technology in the United States
Industrial Applications in Europe
Industrial Production Plants in Japan and Future Developments
Laboratory Applications of Microstructured Devices in Student Education