Microreactors: Passive Micromixers

This lecture covers the design and operation of passive micromixers in microreactors, including parallel lamination mixers and serial lamination mixers. It explains the principles behind multilamination mixers, bifurcation-type feeds, hydrodynamic focusing, and examples of different micromixer designs. The lecture also delves into chaotic mixers, discussing the mixing mechanisms, examples, and the advantages of chaotic advection in microscale systems. Additionally, it explores segmented flow in micromixers, focusing on Taylor flow, its characteristics, and the benefits of using segmented flow in microreactors.