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Continuous Flow Microfluidic Channel Design for Blood Plasma Separation

  • Jagriti SrivastavaEmail author
  • Rajendra Patrikar
Conference paper
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Part of the Communications in Computer and Information Science book series (CCIS, volume 892)

Abstract

Various clinical blood diagnostics tests are performed on plasma, necessitating an efficient microfluidic device for blood plasma separation. Microfluidics devices are being explored for such applications and many of them are successfully deployed. This work demonstrates a passive microchannel design for continuous flow blood-plasma separation. The design uses the multistage bifurcations and constrictions to separate blood plasma. Simulation results show that the more plasma yield is obtained by reducing the angle of bifurcation, decreasing the constriction width and by increasing the bifurcating stages. The simulation shows that yield obtained after optimizing the geometry is 97.03%.

Keywords

Blood Plasma Microfluidic Microchannels Continuous flow Passive separation 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Centre for VLSI and Nano-TechnologyVisvesvaraya National Institute of TechnologyNagpurIndia

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