This handbook covers the fundamentals on the design of micro process devices and their microfluidics, including their use for production or as laboratory tools, their fabrication technology and their characterisation, as well as their integration and functionalisation.
Focusing on production cost improvements, safety, energy and reducing the environmental impact throughout each step of the process, the book discusses how this technology can aid in finding solutions for global challenges, such as energy generation and storage, synthesizing new materials with new properties and improved products, plus such economic aspects as the market, new products and supply chain management.

About the Author: Professor Volker Hessel, is a professor for Micro Flow Chemistry and Process Technology at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands. His department focuses on micro process engineering, mixing with microstructured mixers, fine chemistry with micro process technology, fuel processing with micro process technology, cost analysis of micro process technology and scale out of micro process technology. He was awarded his Ph.D. from the University of Mainz in organic chemistry in 1993, investigating structure-property relations of supramolecular structures. After having been appointed Group Leader for Microreaction Technology at the IMM in 1996, he became head of the newly founded Department of Microreaction Technology in 1999. Until 2010 he was the Director of R&D and Head of the Chemical Process Technology Department at the Institute for Microtechnology Mainz, GmbH (IMM), Germany. In September, 2009, he was appointed an honorary professorship at the Technical Chemistry Department at Technical University of Darmstadt. He is author of more than 150 peer-reviewed publications in the fields of organic chemistry and chemical micro process engineering, 200 papers in total, five books and 15 patents.

Dr. Timothy Noel is an Assistant Professor within the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at the Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. Dr. Noel received his PhD from Ghent University, Belgium, in the field of transition metal catalysis, in 2009, under the supervision of Professor Johan Van der Eycken (2005-2009). After this Dr. Noel was a Postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University, Belgium, followed by a position at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, as a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow with Professor Stephen L. Buchwald. At MIT, he worked on the development of new continuous-flow methods for cross-coupling chemistry at the MIT-Novartis Center for Continuous Manufacturing. In 2011, he accepted a position as an assistant professor in the research group of Professor Volker Hessel at Eindhoven University of Technology. His research interest are flow chemistry, homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis and organic synthesis.