Process and apparatus for producing microcapsules

摘要

The present invention provides a process and apparatus for producing microcapsules. A continuous phase (17) is fed into a first microchannel (12), a shell-forming phase (18) is fed into a second microchannel (13), and a content-forming phase (19) is fed into a third microchannel (14). The second and third microchannels (13,14) join the first microchannel (12), the third microchannel (13) joining the first microchannel (12) at a position downstream of and in the vicinity of the second microchannel (13), such that microcapsules (20) are formed in the continuous phase (17), the microcapsules (20) being formed of the shell-forming phase (18) encapsulating the content-forming phase (19).