• DocumentCode
    3115526
  • Title

    Pumping gases by a silicon micro pump with dynamic passive valves

  • Author

    Gerlach, Torsten

  • Author_Institution
    Fac. Mech. Eng., Tech. Hochschule Ilmenau, Germany
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    16-19 Jun 1997
  • Firstpage
    357
  • Abstract
    Pumping gases by a membrane pump requires a strong compression ratio inside the pump chamber. This demand is fulfilled by an optimized micro pump with dynamic passive valves, working at the resonance frequency. The experimental results for the zero-load pump rate and the maximum pump pressure are 7.5 ml/min and 2.8 kPa, respectively. The pump´s behaviour is described by a mathematical model. The calculated values coincide with the experimental data quite well
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; microactuators; micropumps; silicon; valves; 2.8 kPa; Si; compression ratio; dynamic passive valves; mathematical model; membrane pump; micropump; pump chamber; pump pressure; resonance frequency; zero-load pump rate; Actuators; Biomembranes; Fluid dynamics; Gases; Micropumps; Pumps; Resonance; Silicon; Transducers; Valves;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Solid State Sensors and Actuators, 1997. TRANSDUCERS '97 Chicago., 1997 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Chicago, IL
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-3829-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SENSOR.1997.613658
  • Filename
    613658