Paper: In Press

Richard E. Billo, C. Ryan Oliver, Rachaneewan Charoenwat, Brian H. Dennis, Paul A. Wilsone, John W. Priest, Heather Beardsley.  A cellular manufacturing process for a full-scale biodiesel microreactor.  J. Manuf Syst. In Press. Available online 8/7/2014.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmsy.2014.07.004]

A cellular manufacturing process was developed for fabrication and assembly of a full-scale biodiesel microreactor capable of producing biodiesel fuel at the rate of 2.47 L/min and at a capacity of over 1.2 million liters of fuel per year. The scale-up of themicroreactor was done through fabrication of over 14,000 individual microchannel laminae, and assembly of these laminae into a hierarchical system of modules and manifolds, thus duplicating many times over […]