Gravity-assisted distillation on a chip: Fabrication, characterization, and applications
| Autor: | Luis C. S. Vieira, Gabriela F. Giordano, Angelo L. Gobbi, Lauro T. Kubota, Renato S. Lima |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Fabrication
02 engineering and technology Sodium Chloride 01 natural sciences Biochemistry Desalination Analytical Chemistry law.invention Multi-stage flash distillation Cleanroom law Lab-On-A-Chip Devices Miniaturization Environmental Chemistry Dimethylpolysiloxanes Process engineering Distillation Electrodes Spectroscopy Microscale chemistry Ethanol business.industry Chemistry Alcoholic Beverages 010401 analytical chemistry Membrane fouling Microfluidic Analytical Techniques 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 0104 chemical sciences 0210 nano-technology business |
| Zdroj: | Analytica chimica acta. 1033 |
| ISSN: | 1873-4324 |
| Popis: | Distillation is widely used in industrial processes and laboratories for sample pre-treatment. The conventional apparatus of flash distillation is composed of heating source, distilling flask, condenser, and receiving flask. As disadvantages, this method shows manual and laborious analyses with high consumption of chemicals. In this paper, all these limitations were addressed by developing a fully integrated microscale distiller in agreement with the apparatus of conventional flash distillation. The main challenge facing the distillation miniaturization is the phase separation since surface forces take over from the gravity in microscale channels. Otherwise, our chip had ability to perform gravity-assisted distillations because of the somewhat large dimensions of the distillation chamber (roughly 900 μL) that was obtained by 3D-printing. The functional distillation units were integrated into a single device composed of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). Its fabrication was cost-effective and simple by avoiding the use of cleanroom and bonding step. In addition to user-friendly analysis and low consumption of chemicals, the method requires cost-effective instrumentation, namely, voltage supply and analytical balance. Furthermore, the so called distillation-on-a-chip (DOC) eliminates the use of membranes and electrodes (usually employed in microfluidic desalinations reported in the literature), thus avoiding drawbacks such as liquid leakage, membrane fouling, and electrode passivation. The DOC promoted desalinations at harsh salinity (NaCl 600.0 mmol L-1) with high throughput and salt removal efficiency (roughly 99%). Besides, the method was used for determination of ethanol in alcoholic beverages to show the potential of the approach toward quantitative purposes. |
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