Automated and Continuous Production of Microstructured Metallic Plates via Cold Embossing

Abstract

Many critical issues need to be addressed when microstructured reactors are manufactured in large unit volumes. The most crucial of these are cost, ease of production, and reliability. The lack of breakthrough manufacturing technology to provide high-efficiency, low-cost, high-precision plates is a hindrance to the early market implementation of systems requiring metallic microstructured plates. This contribution focuses on the development and optimization of a combined embossing and bending tool for the quick and continuous manufacture of easily machined plates.

Modular Process Engineering: Development of Apparatuses for Transformable Production Systems

“…The Coflore® Flow Reactor from AM Technology is an easy‐to‐scale reactor in continuous operation . The micro applications of Fraunhofer ICT‐IMM are also used in pilot and production plants and are intended to increase the flexibility of the systems by their modular design , . Another example is the Advanced‐Flow™ reactor from Corning.…”