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[[Image:TyIMVT20060702i12404.jpg|thumb|right|180px|'''Institute for Micro Process Engineering IMVT''', view from the south-west]]

The '''Institute for Micro Process Engineering IMVT''' (from the German name '' '''I'''nstitut für '''M'''ikro'''v'''erfahrens'''t'''echnik'') is an institute within the [[Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe|Karlsruhe Research Center (''Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe'')]] in [[Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen]], [[Germany]]. Its main field of activity is [[micro process engineering]], the science of conducting chemical and/or physical processes in confines with typical dimensions below 1 mm.

==History and organization==
The '''IMVT''' was formally established in July 2001 and continued previous activities in [[micro process engineering]] carried out by the Central Experimentation Department (''Hauptabteilung Versuchstechnik'', HVT) at the Karlsruhe Research Center. Its first director was [[Klaus Schubert]]. Between 1997 and 2001 the first activities, which were focused on developing and testing micro heat exchangers, were expanded by a new group (Head: [[Maximilian Fichtner]]) to chemical process engineering in microchannels, with a focus on fuel processing (methanol [[steam reforming]], partial oxidation of methane), synthesis of chemicals and fundamental studies on new types of micro heat exchangers and heterogeneous catalysis under dynamic reaction conditions and in the [[Knudsen diffusion|Knudsen regime]]. In 2001, the entire activity was turned into a new institute, the IMVT.

Professor Roland Dittmeyer assumed control of the institute in July 2009. The IMVT operates within the programs "Nano- and Microsystems" and "Sustainability and Technology" of the [[Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres|Helmholtz Association]]. Its staff initially consisted of about 40 employees (on 31 December 2001<ref>[http://hikwww2.fzk.de/pae/fe_-_programm/2002/Institute.pdf (PDF file, German)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041129154715/http://hikwww2.fzk.de/pae/fe_-_programm/2002/Institute.pdf |date=2004-11-29 }} [[Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe]], Appendix to ''Forschungs- und Entwicklungsprogramm 2002''</ref>) and
numbered approximately 50 in 2005.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070310230625/http://www.fzk.de/fzk/idcplg?IdcService=FZK&node=1298&document=ID_050873 (German)] press release no. 13/2005 of [[Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe]], dated 6 July 2005</ref> The institute carries out both basic development of apparatus (e.g. "[[microreactor]]s") and processes, funded via the [[Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres|Helmholtz Association]] and the [[Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe|Research Center]], as well as development projects in cooperation with and funded by industry.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.imvt.kit.edu IMVT homepage]

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