Table 7.

Comparison of mixing cost and mixing energy cost of PODs on POF-1 with previous micromixers.

	Previous Works
	PODs on POF-1					Ortega-Casanova [41]	Ortega-Casanova [42]	Chung and Shih [40]	Cheri et al. [43]
Parameters	A	B	C	D	E
η	44	50	55	59	58	27	27	55	60
ΔP (Pa)	161	199	269	373	391	-*	-*	162	530
${\overline{C}}_p$	7273	6800	7141	7619	7624	904	550	10,000	100
mixing cost	0.273	0.251	0.205	0.157	0.149	-*	-*	0.3	0.113
mec	166	137	130	130	131	33	20	182	1.6

-* denotes data not available.