NMR Imaging in Chemical Engineering provides an overview of existing methods and strategies to solve individual problems in chemical engineering.

Features:

• Begins with a look at hardware and methods
• Covers porous materials, fluids and flow of increasing complexity from different fields of Chemical Engineering
• Explains the benefit of NMR imaging with regard to cost efficiency and scientific results

Contents

Introduction

• The Very Basics of NMR
• Fundamentals of NMR Imaging
• Fundamentals of Detecting Motion
• Bringing Them Together: Velocity Imaging
• More Advanced Techniques I: Multiple Encoding and Multiple Dimensions
• More Advanced Techniques II: Fast Imaging Techniques
• Introducing Color into the Image: Contrast Parameters

Hardware and Methods

• Hardware, Software and Areas of Application of Non-medical MRI
• Compact MRI for Chemical Engineering
• Drying of Coatings and Other Applications with GARField
• Depth Profiling by Single-sided NMR
• Microcoil NMR for Reaction Monitoring
• Broadening the Application Range of NMR and MRI by Remote Detection
• Novel Two Dimensional NMR of Diffusion and Relaxation for Material Characterization
• Hardware and Method Development for NMR Rheology
• Hydrodynamic, Electrodynamic and Thermodynamic Transport in Porous Model Objects: Magnetic Resonance Mapping Experiments and Simulations

Porous Materials

• Diffusion in Nanoporous Materials
• Application of Magnetic Resonance Imaging to the Study of the Filtration Process
• Multiscale Approach to Catalyst Design
• Pure Phase Encode Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Concrete Building Materials
• NMR Imaging of Functionalized Ceramics
• NMR Applications in Petroleum Reservoir Studies
• NMR Pore Size Measurements Using an Internal Magnetic Field in Porous Media

Fluids and Flows

• Modeling Fluid Flow in Permeable Media
• MRI Viscometer
• Imaging Complex Fluids in Complex Geometries
• Quantitative Visualization of Taylor–Couette–Poiseuille Flows with MRI+
• Two Phase Flow of Emulsions
• Fluid Flow and Trans-membrane Exchange in a Hemodialyzer Module
• NMR for Food Quality Control
• Granular Flow

Reactors and Reactions

• Magnetic Resonance Microscopy of Biofilm and Bioreactor Transport
• Two-phase Flow in Trickle-Bed Reactors
• Hyperpolarized 129Xe NMR Spectroscopy, MRI and Dynamic NMR Microscopy for the In Situ Monitoring of Gas Dynamics in Opaque Media Including Combustion Processes
• In Situ Monitoring of Multiphase Catalytic Reactions at Elevated Temperatures by MRI and NMR
• In Situ Reaction Imaging in Fixed-bed Reactors Using MRI

Index

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