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Applications of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Particle Technology
Author(s) -
Gladden Lynn F.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
particle and particle systems characterization
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.877
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1521-4117
pISSN - 0934-0866
DOI - 10.1002/ppsc.19950120203
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , materials science , particle (ecology) , porous medium , nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy , chemical physics , porosity , nuclear magnetic resonance , chemistry , physics , paleontology , oceanography , composite material , biology , geology
During the past decade, the application of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) imaging techniques to problems of relevance to the process industries has been identified. In the context of particle technology, NMR imaging, in addition to the more routinely used techniques of Pulsed Gradient Spin Echo (PGSE) NMR and NMR spectroscopy, offer new methods of characterising pore structure, adsorption and diffusion processes within particles and packed beds of particles, as well as enabling time‐resolved in‐situ study of processes such as twophase flow, aggregation, polymerisation, crystallisation and phase separation phenomena. This paper reviews recent work in these areas, and also highlights the new insights NMR imaging can give us regarding the characterisation of porous materials, and the influence of the structure of the pore space on the transport processes occuring within a given porous solid.