RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING &

TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF ETE
Presentation title:
Various actuation methods in micropumps
for Drug Delivery application

P R ESENTED BY:
S HI R IN S HUCHON A
ROL L : 1 44032
 INTRODUCTION
● Large size material for drug delivery problem
such as low solubility, a lack of targeted
delivery and generalized side effects
● Drug delivery provides the potential for
enhanced treatment with targeted delivery and
fewer side effect.
● Micro actuator generates forces or
displacements to realize scanning, tuning
manipulating or delivering function.

Figure: Microfluidic devices for drug delivery

 MICROPUMP??
●miniature fluid delivery device
●capable of generating flow
at finite pressure

Figure: Micropump system

 STRUCTURE OF MICROPUMP

● thin layer membrane

● isolates with inlet & outlet
●controlled by valves

Figure: Structure of micropump system[1,1]

 WHY USE???
→ Actuation voltage & power consumption
→ Ranges of operating frequency
→ maximum flow rate and back pressure
 APPLICATION
→ drug delivery
→ localized cooling of electronic circuit
→ inkjet printing
 CATEGORIES OF MICROACTUATION METHOD IN MICROPUMP

Micro Pump

Piezoelectric Electrostatic Electromagnetic Electrothermal

 ELECTROSTATIC
ACTUATION
● employs electrostatic force
induced
by the potential difference
between a microactuator
● the applied voltage increases,
higher electrostatic force results
in more displacement
● electrostatic microactuator is
inherently nonlinear
Figure: Structure of electrostatic micropump with non mechanical valves[2,1]
● fast response time,low power
consumption
 PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATION
→ piezoelectric effect in
which piezoelectric material
generates electric fields or
potential difference across
the material
Figure: piezoelectric actuator[4,1]
→ it has relatively low
operation voltage & fast
switching time
 ELECTROMAGNETIC ACTUIATION

→ electromagnetic actuation provides

more displacement than other
actuation methods.
→ [8] implement electromagnetic
actuation to displace a micromirror,
achieving a large angular scan angle of
8° at 0.75 r, while a micromirror shows a
linear response to the applied current .
→ The Flow direction is defined through
the use of a nozzle/diffuser combination
as passive valves.
Figure: An exploded view of the electro-magnetic micro pump[5,7]
ELECTROTHERMAL ACTUATION

→ A change in temperature causes an

object to undergo a change in length.
→ the change is proportional to the
materials coefficient of thermal
expansion
→ It is the simplicity of the fabrication method

Figure: Temperature contours for packaged micropump for input voltage of 15 V[6,13]
 COMPARISON
Actuation mechanism Merits
Piezoelectric ●low power consumption
●higher switching speed
●better linearity
Electromagnetic ●large actuation force
●relatively large displacement
Electrostatic ●Low power consumption
● fast response
●fabrication process easy
Electrothermal ●simplicity of the fabrication method ●higher power consumption
●nonlinearity property
temperature dependency
Demerits
● maximum displacement
●high frequency or power
● low efficiency
●difficult and expensive fabrication
process
●high actuation voltage
●small actuation stroke
due to ● Slow response time
Methodology
 REFERENCE
1.