NMR Imaging in Chemical Engineering

HARDWARE AND METHODS

NMR Hardware and methods development

Application fields of non-medical MRI

Compact MRI for chemical engineering

Drying of coatings with GARFIELD

The NMR MOUSE in industrial applications

Microcoil NMR for miniaturized reactors

Hardware and method development for NMR rheology

Broadening the application range of NMR and MRI by remote detection

Methods for quality control

Modelling, simulation and experiment on flow in percolation clusters

POROUS MATERIALS

Diffusion in zeolites

Fluid distribution and dynamics in filter media

Multiscale approach to catalyst design

MRI methods for concrete building materials

Gas adsorption in porous materials

NMR applications in petroleum reservoir studies

Pore size measurements using internal magnetic field in porous media

FLUIDS AND FLOW

Modeling Fluid Flow in Porous Media

Magnetic resonance imaging 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

NMR of granular matter

REACTORS AND REACTIONS

Magnetic resonance microscopy of biofilm and bioreactor transport

Two-phase flow in trickle bed reactors

In-situ monitoring of gas dynamics in combustion processes

In-situ monitoring of catalyzed reactions by NMR and MRI

In-situ reaction monitoring in fixed-bed reactors

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.

"...comes to address a large audience from undergraduate to postgraduate students and faculty members, and also industrial researchers and decision makers who will not only gain a good understanding of the NMR theory and its diverse applications, but also will be able to address their particular problems via NMR."Environmental Engineering and Management Journal