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Title: Devices with extended area structures for mass transfer processing of fluids

Patent ·
OSTI ID:986571

A microchannel device includes several mass transfer microchannels to receive a fluid media for processing at least one heat transfer microchannel in fluid communication with a heat transfer fluid defined by a thermally conductive wall, and at several thermally conductive fins each connected to the wall and extending therefrom to separate the mass transfer microchannels from one another. In one form, the device may optionally include another heat transfer microchannel and corresponding wall that is positioned opposite the first wall and has the fins and the mass transfer microchannels extending therebetween.

Research Organization:
RFETS (Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site, Golden, CO (United States))
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC06-76RL01830
Assignee:
Battelle Memorial Institute (Richland, WA)
Patent Number(s):
7,520,917
Application Number:
11/061,237; TRN: US201017%%411
OSTI ID:
986571
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English