An Investigation on Appropriate Procedure for Micro-Reactor Fabrication & Simulation

In the recent years, microscale equipment has been one of the advantages in the engineering sciences. In this regard, manufacturing micro-reactors is one of the significant progress in chemical and chemical engineering science. Using the micro-reactor instead of conventional scale reactor leads to significant decrease in research expense. On the other hand, conventional scale reactors are not able to perform some reactions. Hence, micro-reactor is applied in industrial scale, when reaction is not performed in conventional scale reactor. In this study, micro-reactor manufacturing procedures are described. Selecting micro-reactor scheme, evaluation of design, selecting construction material, and manufacturing are four main step in micro-reactor manufacturing. According to property change of heat and mass transfer, flow distribution and flow regime in microscale, simulation of micro-reactor before manufacturing is one of the most important step inmicro-reactor-manufacturing.