This paper studies the thermal behavior of a wireless powered micropump operated using thermo-pneumatic actuation. Numerical analysis was performed to investigate the temporal conduction of the planar inductor-capacitor (LC) wireless heater and the heating chamber. The result shows that the temperature at the heating chamber reaches steady state temperature of 46.7°C within 40 seconds. The finding was further verified with experimental works through the fabrication of the planar LC heater (RF sensitive actuator) and micropump device using MEMS fabrication technique. The fabricated device delivers a minimum volume of 0.096 μL at the temperature of 29°C after being thermally activated for 10 s. The volume dispensed from the micropump device can precisely controlled by an increase of the electrical heating power within the cut-off input power of 0.22 W. Beyond the power, the heat transfer to the heating chamber exhibits non-linear behavior. In addition, wireless operation of the fabricated device shows successful release of color dye when the micropump is immersed in DI-water containing dish and excited by tuning the RF power.
The batch cooling crystallization initiated from spontaneous nucleation for aqueous solution of potas- sium nitrate was studied.The concentration and transmittance data were acquired on line throughout the operation. Based on solute mass transfer in both liquid and solid phases,a kinetic model was deduced by assuming that the late period of primary nucleation resembles the initial period of the secondary nucleation.Nucleation and crystal growth stages were identified.Kinetic parameters were estimated piecewise from online experimental data and compared with those in literature.The estimated kinetic parameters for stages without apparent primary nucleation agreed well with those in literature.Further,a simulated concentration curve was also drawn from the estimated kinetic parameters and it matched well with that in experiment. 相似文献
