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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2017

The Combination of Micro Diaphragm Pumps and Flow Sensors for Single Stroke Based Liquid Flow Control.

Christoph Jenke, Jaume Pallejà Rubio, Sebastian Kibler, Johannes Häfner, Martin Richter, Christoph Kutter

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Christoph JenkeFraunhofer Research Institution for Microsystems and Solid State Technologies EMFT, 80686 Munich, Germany. christoph.jenke@emft.fraunhofer.de.
Jaume Pallejà RubioFraunhofer Research Institution for Microsystems and Solid State Technologies EMFT, 80686 Munich, Germany. j.palleja.rubio@gmail.com.
Sebastian KiblerFraunhofer Research Institution for Microsystems and Solid State Technologies EMFT, 80686 Munich, Germany. sebastian.kibler@emft.fraunhofer.de.
Johannes HäfnerFraunhofer Research Institution for Microsystems and Solid State Technologies EMFT, 80686 Munich, Germany. johannes.haefner@emft.fraunhofer.de.
Martin RichterFraunhofer Research Institution for Microsystems and Solid State Technologies EMFT, 80686 Munich, Germany. martin.richter@emft.fraunhofer.de.
Christoph KutterFraunhofer Research Institution for Microsystems and Solid State Technologies EMFT, 80686 Munich, Germany. christoph.kutter@emft.fraunhofer.de.
Fraunhofer Research Institution for Microsystems and Solid State Technologies · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the combination of micropumps and flow sensors, highly accurate and secure closed-loop controlled micro dosing systems for liquids are possible. Implementing a single stroke based control mode with piezoelectrically driven micro diaphragm pumps can provide a solution for dosing of volumes down to nanoliters or variable average flow rates in the range of nL/min to μL/min. However, sensor technologies feature a yet undetermined accuracy for measuring highly pulsatile micropump flow. Two miniaturizable in-line sensor types providing electrical readout-differential pressure based flow sensors and thermal calorimetric flow sensors-are evaluated for their suitability of combining them with mircopumps. Single stroke based calibration of the sensors was carried out with a new method, comparing displacement volumes and sensor flow volumes. Limitations of accuracy and performance for single stroke based flow control are described. Results showed that besides particle robustness of sensors, controlling resistive and capacitive damping are key aspects for setting up reproducible and reliable liquid dosing systems. Depending on the required average flow or defined volume, dosing systems with an accuracy of better than 5% for the differential pressure based sensor and better than 6.5% for the thermal calorimeter were achieved.

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dampingdifferential pressure based flow sensorflow controlflow sensormicropumpsensor velocitysingle strokethermal flow sensor

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PMID28368344
PMCPMC5421715
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