Microfluidics Devices & Analytical Instruments

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	COMSOL Reveals Unknown Effects in Process Instrumentation MKS Instruments, Wilmington, MA Modeling has become invaluable in MKS Instruments' development of first-class mass-flow controllers for the process industry. They have gained a detailed...
	MEMS Biosensor Brings about Disposable DNA Detectors Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA Wouldn't it be a great service for the diagnosing and treating genetic of diseases if physicians had a disposable instrument for detecting DNA that worked...
	Simulation Addresses Band-Broadening in HPLC Systems Waters Corp., Milford, MA, USA At Waters Corp., people who work in R&D have seen a lot of benefits from doing simulations — from understanding fundamentally what happens to...

	Micromixer The development of mixers does often not only have to account for effectiveness, but also other factors must be involved, such as cost and complexity for manufacturing. The three models study a laminar static micro mixer with two parallel...
	Inkjet Nozzle: Level Set Inkjet printers are attractive tools for printing text and images because they combine low cost and high resolution with acceptable speed. Designers can vary several parameters to modify a printer’s performance. Simulations can be...
	Hydrocarbon Dehalogenation in a Tortuous Microreactor Removing halogen groups from hydrocarbons is an important reaction step in several chemical processes. One application is water purification. Other examples involve organic synthesis, where the removal of halogen groups serves as a...
	Fully-coupled Physics with Joule Heating, CFD and Chemical Reactions In this example, a fluid carrying several chemical components is pumped into a detector compartment. A wire in the center of the detector is heated through Joule heating, which is supposed to detect changes in density through convective...