Rapid vortex microfluidic mixer utilizing double-heart chamber》.pdf

Chemical Engineering Journal 249 (2014) 246–251 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Chemical Engineering Journal journal homepage: www.else /locate/cej Rapid vortex microfluidic mixer utilizing double-heart chamber Lung-Ming Fu a,b, Wei-Ching Fang a, Hui-Hsiung Hou c, Yao-Nan Wang d,⇑, Ting-Fu Hong a,d,⇑ a Graduate Institute of Materials Engineering, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung 912, Taiwan b Department of Biomechatronics Engineering, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung 912, Taiwan c Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan d Department of Vehicle Engineering, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Pingtung 912, Taiwan h i g h l i g h t s g r a p h i c a l a b s t r a c t A novel vortex micromixer is Streamline Concentration proposed comprising an injection channel, a nozzle structure and a Re=1 Numerical double-heart mixing chamber. The double-heart chamber can induce symmetrical rotating vortex Experimental structures. 200 The mixing ratio reaches 92% even at Experimental Reynolds numbers as low as Re = 1 Re=30 given a nozzle ratio of 0.25. a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: