nmr imaging in chemical engineering

[...]... Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana Illinois 61801 USA Erica L Gjersing Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Center for Biofilm Engineering Montana State University Bozeman Montana 59717 USA Lynn F Gladden University of Cambridge Department of Chemical Engineering Pembroke Street Cambridge CB2 3RA United Kingdom S Jill Glass... Spectroscopy, MRI and Dynamic NMR Microscopy for the In Situ Monitoring of Gas Dynamics in Opaque Media Including Combustion Processes 551 Galina E Pavlovskaya and Thomas Meersmann Introduction 551 Chemical Shift Selective Hp-129Xe MRI and NMR Microscopy 552 Dynamic NMR Microscopy of Gas Phase 557 In Situ NMR of Combustion 561 High Xenon Density Optical Pumping 566 In Situ Monitoring of Multiphase Catalytic... expanding field in a dedicated manner As a result of all these considerations, we decided to include only those works that employ NMR imaging methods (in the wider sense, i.e., pulsed field gradient NMR) in a fashion that is not yet established, i.e., utilizing novel NMR methods and techniques, or demonstrating its great potential for applications that have not been routinely explored by NMR imaging. .. 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Introduction 1 Siegfried Stapf and Song-I Han A Brief Comment 1 The Very Basics of NMR 2 Fundamentals of NMR Imaging 8 Fundamentals of Detecting Motion 18 Bringing Them Together: Velocity Imaging 26 More Advanced Techniques I: Multiple Encoding and Multiple Dimensions More Advanced Techniques II: Fast Imaging Techniques 34 Introducing Color into the Image: Contrast Parameters... Aachen Germany Andrew J Sederman University of Cambridge Department of Chemical Engineering Pembroke Street Cambridge CB2 3RA United Kingdom Joseph D Seymour Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Center for Biofilm Engineering Montana State University Bozeman Montana 59717 USA Nina C Shapley Department of Chemial Engineering Columbia University 500 West 120th Street New York New York 10027... during the early stages of the preparation of this book, we realized that NMR spectroscopy has indeed gained widespread acceptance for analysis purposes, although this is still not usually on-line or in- line However, the potential, from a scientific and more significantly also from an economic point of view, XV XVI Preface from the Editors of MR imaging in the various fields of Chemical Engineering. .. does not aim to highlight who is leading the field in non-medical NMR imaging, but rather intends to convince many scientists and chemical engineers how cool NMR imaging is and that it is worth looking into Hopefully the reader will benefit from this manifold approach, which casts light on the topic from a range of perspectives Many of the contributors were originally physicists or chemists who became... oriented at well defined angles relative to B0, but this is merely a crutch for visualizing the quantum mechanical property through a classical one Independent of how one imagines the spin, one needs to keep in mind that only by bringing the spins into an external magnetic field can the different orientations of the spins differ in energy, which as stated above takes place in a non-continuous but quantized... Blỹmich Introduction 263 129 Xe Spectroscopy 265 NMR Relaxometry 267 Cryoporometry 269 Diffusometry 270 Flow Propagators 272 NMR Imaging 275 Conclusions and Summary 280 Pure Phase Encode Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Concrete Building Materials J J Young, T W Bremner, M D A Thomas, and B J Balcom Introduction 285 Single-Point Imaging The SPRITE Techniques 286 Hydrogen (Water) Measurements 291 Chlorine... non-medical NMR imaging 2 1 Introduction 1.2 The Very Basics of NMR If one dissects the abbreviation NMRI into its individual words, the essential features of the method are all covered: we are exploiting the interaction of the Nuclear magnetic properties with external static Magnetic fields that leads to Resonance phenomena with oscillating magnetic fields in the radiofrequency regime in order to obtain an .