Development of a Plate Static Micromixer Utilizing Rotation of Fluid Interface and Its Mixing Performance

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  • Ohkawa Kazuo
    Process Chemistry Labs., Astellas Pharma Inc. Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University
  • Nakamoto Takashi
    Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University
  • Inoue Yoshiro
    Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University
  • Hirata Yushi
    Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University

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  • 流体界面の回転を利用した平板静止型マイクロミキサーの開発とその混合特性
  • リュウタイ カイメン ノ カイテン オ リヨウ シタ ヘイバン セイシガタ マイクロミキサー ノ カイハツ ト ソノ コンゴウ トクセイ

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A rule was derived for constructing the unit element of a static micromixer that performs multiplexing of fluid layers by combining splitting, 180° rotation and recombining-superposition in 3D bent channels. Based on the rule, a Y-type plate static mixer was developed, which consists of a combination of a Y-branch, 120° and 60° bent channels with rectangular cross-section and circular channels interconnecting these rectangular channels. The number of unit elements required for complete mixing ‘n’ was measured for a Y-type static mixer with square cross-section by conducting a decolorizing reaction with iodine. In the case of low Reynolds numbers, the element number n increased with Re. By modeling the mixing process in a fluid layer whose thickness reduces by half after the fluid passes through each unit element, a functional relation was derived to express n, based on which the experimental results for n at small Re were correlated. In the case of high Reynolds number, n decreased with Re, and the behavior was correlated experimentally with the variables in the functional relation. CFD analysis was conducted at Reynolds number up to 50. The results at Re=50 showed that fluid layers are deformed largely by secondary flows generated in the 3D bent channels, which promote mixing rate and decrease n with Re. Effects of the aspect ratio, a/b, of the rectangular cross-section of the mixer were investigated by CFD calculation. Deformation of the fluid interface is large for a/b≥2.0, and splitting does not progress uniformly in the branch channel for a/b≤0.2. Hence it is recommended to adopt channels whose cross-section is as close to a square as possible for promoting ideal splitting and recombination of fluid layers in the plate static mixer developed in this study.

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