Dynamics and Control
of Integrated Microchemical Systems
with Application to Micro-Scale Fuel Processing

Professor Mayuresh Kothare
Lehigh University

Date: Thursday, May 18, 2006
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Place: Engineering II, Room 3361

ABSTRACT

This talk will provide an overview of several on-going research projects on microreactors and microchemical systems in the Integrated Microchemical Systems Laboratory at Lehigh University.  Microchemical systems are a new generation of miniature chemical systems that carry out chemical reactions and separations in precisely fabricated three dimensional microreactor configurations in the size range of a few microns to a few hundred microns. Typical microchemical systems combine fluid  handling and reaction capabilities with electronic sensing and actuation, are fabricated using integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing techniques and use silicon and related IC industry materials, polymers,  ceramics, glass or quartz as their material of construction.  I will present our work on MEMS-based microfabrication, modeling and embedded control of microreformers for hydrogen delivery systems in micro-fuel cells using methanol as fuel.