writer：Yaopeng Zhang, Shinji Kato,Takanori Anazawa
keywords：microdistillation
source：期刊
specific source：Lab on a Chip, 2010,10,899-908 (IF 2008 6.478)
Issue time：2010年

A multilayered microchip (25×95 mm) used for vacuum distillation is designed, fabricated and tested by rectification of a water-methanol mixture. The polymer chip employs a cooling channel to generate a temperature gradient along a distillation channel below, which is separated into a channel (72 μm deep) for liquid phase  and a channel  (72 μm deep) for vapor phase  by an incorporated microporous poly(tetrafluoroethylene) (PTFE) membrane. The temperature gradient is controlled by adjusting hotplate temperature and flow rate of cooling water to make the temperatures in stripping section be higher than the increasing boiling points of the water-enriched liquids and the temperatures in rectifying section be lower than the decreasing dew points of the methanol-enriched vapors. The effects of temperature gradient, feed composition, feed flow rate and membrane pore size on the micro distillation are also investigated. A theoretical plate number up to 1.8 is achieved at the optimum conditions.