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The goal of the project is to accelerate the generation of monodispersed droplets and polymer spheres by integrating multiple droplet generator chips in parallel.
Sponsored by: Dr. Tak Sing Wong, Penn State Mechanical Engineering
Team Members
Subathie Koggala Leeann Runkle Mark Kennedy Mario Pellegrino Maryam Abdelaal Bankshita Devkota
Instructor: Margaret Busse
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Project Summary
Overview
This project is focused on designing and fabricating a microfluidic system that integrates multiple pre-fabricated microfluidic droplet generators. The system comprises a casing housing several pre-fabricated microfluidic droplet generators and an external fluid control system, enabling the adjustment of flow rates for individual fluid channels to each of the microfluidic droplet generators. Once completed, this microfluidic system will empower users to precisely control and adjust the flow rates of multiple fluid streams into the microfluidic system, facilitating the parallel generation of monodispersed droplets or particles.
Objectives
Even distribution of fluid into each chip, chemically resistant to Toluene, modular housing components, scalability, and parallel processing
Approach
Create a housing system which preserves equal flow rate to create equal sized microfluidic droplets. Performed calculations on Solidworks and using Excel to analyze the pressure loss given different configurations. 3D and resin printed different prototypes.
Outcomes
A housing system for 2 chips, 4 chips, and 8 chips were designed on Solidworks. The casing for the 2 chip system and the 4 chip system were printed and are currently being updated for testing.