Patent ID: 6802640
Filing Date: 2004-10-12
Classification: B01F,B01J,B22F,B33Y,Y02P,Y10S

Abstract:
A static micromixer with at least one mixing chamber (4) and an upstream guide component (1) for the separate admission of two different fluids (a, b) to be mixed or too be dispersed, said guide component (1) including for each of said fluid flows at least two slot-like flat channels (5a, 5b) extending at an angle with respect to, and from opposite sides of a plane extending along a longitudinal axis (16) of the micromixer such that said channels intersect each other in mutually spaced relationship and in an alternating fashion at an exit area to said mixing chamber (4), where they form a common exit cross-section of alternatingly arranged outlets of said slot-like channels for said different fluids (a, b), with webs disposed between adjacent outlets at the exit cross-section (3a, 3b) the height of the webs being less than 500 &mgr;m, said chactaeis in said guide component having, for at least a part of the fluid flows to be mixed, a cross-section which decreases from the channel inlet sides continuously toward and up to the channel exit area.