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A vapor feed methanol microfluidic fuel cell with high fuel and energy efficiency

Wang, Yifei; Leung, Dennis Y.C.; Xuan, Jin; Wang, Huizhi - In: Applied Energy 147 (2015) C, pp. 456-465

In this paper, a prototype of methanol microfluidic fuel cell with vapor feed anode configuration is proposed to … improve the fuel and energy efficiency of the conventional liquid feed methanol microfluidic fuel cells. Peak power density of … wastage. The tradeoff between cell performance and fuel utilization for conventional liquid feed microfluidic fuel cells is …

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Review of the applications of microreactors

Yao, Xingjun; Zhang, Yan; Du, Lingyun; Liu, Junhai; … - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 47 (2015) C, pp. 519-539

Microreactors offer excellent mass and heat transfer performance for extraction and multiphase reactions. They provide a powerful tool for process intensification and micro scale processing. This paper reviews the structures of microreactors and units, and their applications on the synthesis of...

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Enabling high-concentrated fuel operation of fuel cells with microfluidic principles: A feasibility study

Zhang, Hao; Xuan, Jin; Xu, Hong; Leung, Michael K.H.; … - In: Applied Energy 112 (2013) C, pp. 1131-1137

density. Herein, microfluidic tools are proposed to solve the crossover problem. A three-dimensional numerical model for air …-breathing microfluidic fuel cell (MFC) fed with concentrated formic acid is developed. The model couples CFD with electrochemical kinetics to …

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Reduced order modeling based shape optimization of surface acoustic wave driven microfluidic biochips

Antil, Harbir; Heinkenschloss, Matthias; Hoppe, Ronald H.W. - In: Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM) 82 (2012) 10, pp. 1986-2003

geometric patterns (passive devices). The active devices which will be considered here are microfluidic biochips where the core …

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Towards orientation-independent performance of membraneless microfluidic fuel cell: Understanding the gravity effects

Xuan, Jin; Leung, Michael K.H.; Leung, Dennis Y.C.; … - In: Applied Energy 90 (2012) 1, pp. 80-86

microfluidic fuel cell (MMFC) and the relevant gravity effects. A coupled computational fluid dynamics (CFD)/electrochemical model …

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THEORETICAL ANALYSES FOR LASER MACHINING MICROCHANNELS AND DEMONSTRATION OF THEIR USES IN MANUFACTURE OF A MICROFLUIDIC OPTICAL SWITCH

LIM, DANIEL; SANTOSO, ERNA GONDO; TEH, KIM MING; WAN, … - In: Surface Review and Letters (SRL) 13 (2006) 06, pp. 795-802

Silicon has been widely used to fabricate microfluidic devices due to the dominance of silicon microfabrication … alternative and cost-effective method for prototyping fluid flow channels, chambers and cavities in microfluidic lab chips. …

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