Patent awarded for high-throughput microfluidic based bio-diseal synthesis method
Congratulations to Brian H. Dennis, Richard E. Billo, Christopher R. Oliver, John W. Priest, Edward S. Kolesar, and Elinor Kolesar in the final patent award for a novel method to synthesize biodiesel using arrayed microfluidic devices and diffusive mixing.
Methods and Systems for Improved Biodiesel Production
US 20110060152 A1
ABSTRACT
In a method and system to produce biodiesel using an improved catalytic transesterification process, a first reactant and a second reactant are dispersed to form a laminar slug flow pattern within a microchannel of a microreactor, the first reactant and the second reactant being immiscible. The first reactant and the second reactant are mixed, thereby triggering a reaction between them to […]