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A Simple and Low Cost Micromixer for Laminar Blood Mixing: Design, Optimization, and Analysis

  • Nhut Tran-Minh
  • , Frank Karlsen
  • , Tao Dong
  • , Hai Le-The
  • University of South-Eastern Norway
  • NorChip AS

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Abstract

The paper presents a design of micromixer for laminar blood mixing. In order to minimize the space usage for micromixer of an automatic sample collection system, a splitting and recombination (SAR) concept was employed to reduce the diffusion distance of the fluids. Moreover, ellipse-like micropillars were introduced to this concept to increase the mixing performance of micromixer. With software (COMSOL 4.3) for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) we simulated the mixing of fluids in a micromixer with ellipse-like micropillars and basic T-type mixer in a laminar flow regime. Numerical results illustrate that the micromixer with SAR concept achieves an outstanding mixing efficiency than the one without SAR concept. Numerical results also show that the SAR micromixer with ellipse-like micropillars is up to 99% efficient, and that efficiency reaches 90% in a short distance.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationBiomedical Informatics and Technology - 1st International Conference, ACBIT 2013, Revised Selected Papers
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages91-104
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9783642541209
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event1st International Aizu Conference on Biomedical Informatics and Technology, ACBIT 2013 - Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan
Duration: 16 Sep 2013 → 17 Sep 2013

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume404 CCIS
ISSN (Print)1865-0929

Conference

Conference1st International Aizu Conference on Biomedical Informatics and Technology, ACBIT 2013
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityAizu-Wakamatsu
Period16/09/13 → 17/09/13

Keywords

  • MEMS
  • Micromixer
  • passive mixing
  • splitting and recombination

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