Multiphase flows in microchannels

这个项目将提高我们对多相流体(如一种气体和一种液体或两种液体)如何在非常小的通道中流动的理解。这种流动是几乎所有化学加工的核心，而化学过程的小型化取决于我们设计和控制它们的能力。用于化学品制造的微型工厂引起了全世界的兴趣，国际合作伙伴调查人员是这一领域的领先者。对澳大利亚的特别好处在于，微型、微结构的化工厂可能成为远程、分布式制造的基础，例如，可以允许在直接位于生产点的海洋平台上进行天然气加工。

This project will improve our understanding of how multiphase fluids (such as a gas and a liquid or two liquids) flow in very small passages. Such flows are at the heart of almost all chemical processing and miniaturisation of chemical processes depends on our ability to design for and control them. There is a worldwide interest in microplant for chemicals manufacture and the international partner investigators are leaders in this field. The particular benefit to Australia lies in the possibility that miniaturised, microsctructured chemical plant could become the basis for remote, distributed manufacture that could, for example, allow natural gas processing on ocean platforms directly located at the point of production.