Welcome to ChE Links from Dr.
Bernhard Spang. Dr. Spang has brought this extensive collection of chemical
engineering links from his site at About.com. We're happy to have this collection
now available on The Chemical Engineers' Resource Page.
A Knowledge Base for Microfluidic Devices
Information about micro flow sensors, microvalves and micropumps, compiled by Zheng Cui, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK.
http://www.ccmicro.rl.ac.uk/info_microfluidics.html
Basic Microfluidic Concepts
Basic principles of microfluidics and an introduction to finite element modeling in fluid mechanics.
http://faculty.washington.edu/yagerp/microfluidicstutorial/basicconcepts/basicconcepts.htm
Downsizing Chemistry
Article exploring current microscale technologies, by Michael Freemantle, Chemical & Engineering News.
http://pubs.acs.org/hotartcl/cenear/990222/down.html
Introduction to Microengineering
Tutorial by Danny Banks covering MEMS, micromachines and microsystems.
http://www.dbanks.demon.co.uk/ueng/
Micro Chemical and Thermal Systems
Information and publications about microchannel heat exchangers, heat pumps, gas absorbers, chemical reactors, and other micro chemical and thermal systems from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
http://www.pnl.gov/microcats/
Micro-Flow
Description of the flow regimes and governing equations in microscale devices.
http://www.cfm.brown.edu/people/beskok/muflow.html
Microfluidic Tutorial
Microfluidics for beginners.
http://faculty.washington.edu/yagerp/microfluidicstutorial/tutorialhome.htm
Microtechnology Menu
Brief descriptions of microdevices (heat exchangers, heat pumps, reactors, absorbers, adsorbers, extractors) developed at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
http://www.pnl.gov/microcats/fullmenu/index.html
Mimicking Biological Systems
How microfluidic devices are useful for mimicking different parts of the body, cover story from the September 10, 2007 Issue of Chemical & Engineering News.
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/85/8537cover.html
Transport Effects in Microreactors
Four lessons about microreactors done by students as a project in a chemical engineering course.
http://faculty.washington.edu/finlayso/che475/microreactors/index.html