NMR Imaging of low pressure, gas-phase transport in packed beds using hyperpolarized xenon-129

Gas-phase magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been used to investigate heterogeneity in mass transport in a packed bed of commercial, alumina, catalyst supports. Hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI enables study of transient diffusion for micro- scopic porous systems using xenon chemical shift to selectively...

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Main Authors: Pavlovskaya, Galina E., Six, Joseph S., Meersman, Thomas, Gopinathan, Navin, Rigby, Sean P.
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author Pavlovskaya, Galina E.
Six, Joseph S.
Meersman, Thomas
Gopinathan, Navin
Rigby, Sean P.
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Six, Joseph S.
Meersman, Thomas
Gopinathan, Navin
Rigby, Sean P.
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description Gas-phase magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been used to investigate heterogeneity in mass transport in a packed bed of commercial, alumina, catalyst supports. Hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI enables study of transient diffusion for micro- scopic porous systems using xenon chemical shift to selectively image gas within the pores, and, thence, permits study of low-density, gas-phase mass-transport, such that diffusion can be studied in the Knudsen regime, and not just the molecular regime, which is the limitation with other current techniques. Knudsen-regime diffusion is common in many industrial, catalytic processes. Significantly, larger spatial variability in mass transport rates across the packed bed was found compared to techniques using only molecular diffusion. It has thus been found that that these heterogeneities arise over length-scales much larger than
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spelling nottingham-315302020-05-04T20:06:32Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31530/ NMR Imaging of low pressure, gas-phase transport in packed beds using hyperpolarized xenon-129 Pavlovskaya, Galina E. Six, Joseph S. Meersman, Thomas Gopinathan, Navin Rigby, Sean P. Gas-phase magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been used to investigate heterogeneity in mass transport in a packed bed of commercial, alumina, catalyst supports. Hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI enables study of transient diffusion for micro- scopic porous systems using xenon chemical shift to selectively image gas within the pores, and, thence, permits study of low-density, gas-phase mass-transport, such that diffusion can be studied in the Knudsen regime, and not just the molecular regime, which is the limitation with other current techniques. Knudsen-regime diffusion is common in many industrial, catalytic processes. Significantly, larger spatial variability in mass transport rates across the packed bed was found compared to techniques using only molecular diffusion. It has thus been found that that these heterogeneities arise over length-scales much larger than Wiley 2015-11 Article PeerReviewed Pavlovskaya, Galina E., Six, Joseph S., Meersman, Thomas, Gopinathan, Navin and Rigby, Sean P. (2015) NMR Imaging of low pressure, gas-phase transport in packed beds using hyperpolarized xenon-129. AIChE Journal, 61 (11). pp. 4013-4016. ISSN 1547-5905 gas-phase magnetic resonance imaging hyperpolarized xenon Knudsen diffusion catalyst support http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aic.14929/abstract doi:10.1002/aic.14929 doi:10.1002/aic.14929
spellingShingle gas-phase magnetic resonance imaging
hyperpolarized xenon
Knudsen diffusion
catalyst support
Pavlovskaya, Galina E.
Six, Joseph S.
Meersman, Thomas
Gopinathan, Navin
Rigby, Sean P.
NMR Imaging of low pressure, gas-phase transport in packed beds using hyperpolarized xenon-129
title NMR Imaging of low pressure, gas-phase transport in packed beds using hyperpolarized xenon-129
title_full NMR Imaging of low pressure, gas-phase transport in packed beds using hyperpolarized xenon-129
title_fullStr NMR Imaging of low pressure, gas-phase transport in packed beds using hyperpolarized xenon-129
title_full_unstemmed NMR Imaging of low pressure, gas-phase transport in packed beds using hyperpolarized xenon-129
title_short NMR Imaging of low pressure, gas-phase transport in packed beds using hyperpolarized xenon-129
title_sort nmr imaging of low pressure, gas-phase transport in packed beds using hyperpolarized xenon-129
topic gas-phase magnetic resonance imaging
hyperpolarized xenon
Knudsen diffusion
catalyst support
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https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31530/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31530/