NMR Imaging in Chemical Engineering

Siegfried Stapf received his PhD in Physics at the University of Ulm, Germany, in 1996. Following a postdoctoral stay at the University of Nottingham, UK, he currently holds a position as Hochschuldozent at the RWTH Aachen, Germany. His main research interests cover the fields of molecular dynamics and order of confined fluids and soft matter, as well as transport phenomena and structure/dynamics relations in complex media investigated with advanced Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging techniques. Song-I Han received her Doctoral Degree in Natural Sciences (Dr.rer.nat) from Aachen University of Technology, Germany, in 2001. She was awarded with the first Raymond Andrew Prize of the Ampere Society for an outstanding PhD thesis in magnetic resonance imaging. She pursued her postdoctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley under the sponsorship of the Feodor Lynen Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Dr. Han joined as an Assistant Professor the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2004. Her research expertise lies in magnetic resonance flow imaging methodologies and her research objectives are technique developments for orders of magnitude faster and more sensitive NMR spectroscopy and imaging.

1 Introduction (Siegfried Stapf and Song-I. Han).1.1 A Brief Comment.1.2 The Very Basics of NMR.1.3 Fundamentals of NMR Imaging.1.4 Fundamentals of Detecting Motion.1.5 Bringing Them Together: Velocity Imaging.1.6 More Advanced Techniques I: Multiple Encoding and Multiple Dimensions.1.7 More Advanced Techniques II: Fast Imaging Techniques.1.8 Introducing Color into the Image: Contrast Parameters.2 Hardware and Methods.2.1 Hardware, Software and Areas of Application of Non-medical MRI (D. Gross, K. Zick, T. Oerther, V. Lehmann, A. Pampel, and J. Goetz).2.2 Compact MRI for Chemical Engineering (Katsumi Kose).2.3 Drying of Coatings and Other Applications with GARField (P. J. Doughty and P. J. McDonald).2.4 Depth Profiling by Single-sided NMR (F. Casanova, J. Perlo, and B. Blumich).2.5 Microcoil NMR for Reaction Monitoring (Luisa Ciobanu, Jonathan V. Sweedler, and Andrew G. Webb).2.6 Broadening the Application Range of NMR and MRI by Remote Detection (Song-I Han, Josef Granwehr, and Christian Hilty).2.7 Novel Two Dimensional NMR of Diffusion and Relaxation for Material Characterization (Yi-Qiao Song).2.8 Hardware and Method Development for NMR Rheology (Paul T. Callaghan).2.9 Hydrodynamic, Electrodynamic and Thermodynamic Transport in Porous Model Objects: Magnetic Resonance Mapping Experiments and Simulations (Elke Kossel, Bogdan Buhai, and Rainer Kimmich).3 Porous Materials.3.1 Diffusion in Nanoporous Materials (Jorg Karger, Frank Stallmach, Rustem Valiullin, and Sergey Vasenkov).3.2 Application of Magnetic Resonance Imaging to the Study of the Filtration Process (R. Reimert, E. H. Hardy, and A. von Garnier).3.3 Multiscale Approach to Catalyst Design (Xiaohong Ren, Siegfried Stapf, and Bernhard Blumich).3.4 Pure Phase Encode Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Concrete Building Materials (J. J. Young, T. W. Bremner, M. D. A. Thomas, and B. J. Balcom).3.5 NMR Imaging of Functionalized Ceramics (S. D. Beyea, D. O. Kuethe, A. McDowell, A. Caprihan, and S. J. Glass).3.6 NMR Applications in Petroleum Reservoir Studies (George J. Hirasaki).3.7 NMR Pore Size Measurements Using an Internal Magnetic Field in Porous Media (Yi-Qiao Song, Eric E. Sigmund, and Natalia V. Lisitza).4 Fluids and Flows.4.1 Modeling Fluid Flow in Permeable Media (Jinsoo Uh and A. Ted Watson).4.2 MRI Viscometer (Robert L. Powell).4.3 Imaging Complex Fluids in Complex Geometries (Y. Xia and P. T. Callaghan).4.4 Quantitative Visualization of Taylor-Couette-Poiseuille Flows with MRI+ (John G. Georgiadis, L.Guy Raguin, and Kevin W. Moser).4.5 Two Phase Flow of Emulsions (Nina C. Shapley and Marcos A. d'Avila).4.6 Fluid Flow and Trans-membrane Exchange in a Hemodialyzer Module (Song-I Han and Siegfried Stapf).4.7 NMR for Food Quality Control (Michael J. McCarthy, Prem N. Gambhir, and Artem G. Goloshevsky).4.8 Granular Flow (Eiichi Fukushima).5 Reactors and Reactions.5.1 Magnetic Resonance Microscopy of Biofilm and Bioreactor Transport (Sarah L. Codd, Joseph D. Seymour, Erica L. Gjersing, Justin P. Gage, and Jennifer R. Brown).5.2 Two-phase Flow in Trickle-Bed Reactors (Lynn F. Gladden, Laura D. Anadon, Matthew H.M. Lim, and Andrew J. Sederman).5.3 Hyperpolarized 129Xe NMR Spectroscopy, MRI and Dynamic NMR Microscopy for the In Situ Monitoring of Gas Dynamics in Opaque Media Including Combustion Processes (Galina E. Pavlovskaya and Thomas Meersmann).5.4 In Situ Monitoring of Multiphase Catalytic Reactions at Elevated Temperatures by MRI and NMR (Igor V. Koptyug and Anna A. Lysova).5.5 In Situ Reaction Imaging in Fixed-bed Reactors Using MRI (Lynn F. Gladden, Belinda S. Akpa, Michael D. Mantle, and Andrew J. Sederman).