A new bubble-driven pulse pressure actuator for micromixing enhancement

doi:10.1016/j.sna.2011.05.017

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	A new bubble-driven pulse pressure actuator for micromixing enhancement
	Wang, B.1; Xu, J. L.1; Zhang, W.1; Li, Y. X.2
	2011-09-10
发表期刊	SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL
卷号	169 期号:1 页码:194-205
摘要	We demonstrate a thermal bubble-driven loop actuator for microfluidic applications. The working principle is similar to that of human being's heart. The actuator consists of a diverging section and a circular chamber. A slim microheater was deposited on the back surface of the glass cover, facing the diverging section of the bottom substrate. The Marangoni effect switches the states of a "long" bubble during the pulse duration stage and a sphere or a circular bubble during the pulse off stage, exporting the pulse pressure and yielding a large convection heat transfer at the vapor-liquid interface. Besides, the loop configuration pumps the bulk fluid movement around the loop. The above features protect the microheater from burnout and dissipate the Joule heat generated by the pulse heating to the supporting structure of the chip substrate, keeping the chip at the room temperature level. The newly designed loop actuator can be integrated with microfluidic systems. The loop actuator has no moving parts thus it has high reliability. Because the thermal bubble never comes out of the loop actuator, the actuator is attractive for biology applications. We demonstrate the loop actuator used for mixing enhancement. The low pulse frequency such as 10 Hz yields a wavy mixing interface, but the high pulse frequencies result in a set of mixing clouds in the mixing channel. The mixing degrees are increased with increases in pulse frequencies. The fluid samples are uniformly distributed across the channel width direction for the pulse frequency of 100 Hz. The mixing degree can reach 0.94 for a short mixing length of about a couple of millimeter at the pulse frequency of 100 Hz. The fluid Reynolds number does not influence the mixing degrees in the mixing channel. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
文章类型	Article
关键词	Thermal Bubble Pulse Heating Actuator Micromixing Mixing Degree
WOS标题词	Science & Technology ; Technology
DOI	10.1016/j.sna.2011.05.017
研究领域[WOS]	Engineering ; Instruments & Instrumentation
关键词[WOS]	FLOW ; MICROCHANNELS ; MIXER
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS类目	Engineering, Electrical & Electronic ; Instruments & Instrumentation
WOS记录号	WOS:000293112700023
引用统计	被引频次：16[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.giec.ac.cn/handle/344007/10416
专题	中国科学院广州能源研究所
作者单位	1.N China Elect Power Univ, Beijing Key Lab New & Renewable Energy, Beijing 102206, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Micro Energy Syst Lab, Guangzhou Inst Energy Convers, Guangzhou 510640, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, B.,Xu, J. L.,Zhang, W.,et al. A new bubble-driven pulse pressure actuator for micromixing enhancement[J]. SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL,2011,169(1):194-205.
APA	Wang, B.,Xu, J. L.,Zhang, W.,&Li, Y. X..(2011).A new bubble-driven pulse pressure actuator for micromixing enhancement.SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL,169(1),194-205.
MLA	Wang, B.,et al."A new bubble-driven pulse pressure actuator for micromixing enhancement".SENSORS AND ACTUATORS A-PHYSICAL 169.1(2011):194-205.