Diffusion Fundamentals (E-Journal)
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Pore length scales and pore surface relaxivity of sandstone determined by internal magnetic fields modulation at 2 MHz NMR
Pore length scales and pore surface relaxivities of sandstone were studied on a 2 MHz Rock Core Analyzer in this work. To determine the pore length scales of rock cores, high eigenmodes of diffusion equation were detected with optimized encoding periods in the presence of internal magnetic fields B in. The results were confirmed by a 64 MHz NMR system. Furthermore, this methodology was combined with relaxometry measurements , which provides the two-dimensional correlation of pore length with relaxation time and yield information on the surface relaxivity of rock cores. The estimated surface relaxivities were compared with the results from an independent NMR method
Determining the clog state of constructed wetlands using an embeddable Earth’s Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance probe
The recent rise in interest of green technologies has led to significant adoption of the constructed wetland as a waste water treatment technique. This increased popularity has only been mired by the decline in operational lifetime of wetland units, leading to the need for more regular, time consuming, and expensive rejuvenation techniques to be performed than initially anticipated. To extend operational lifetimes and increase efficiency of wetland units, it is crucial to have an accurate method to determine the internal state of the wetland system. The most important parameter to measure within the reed bed is the clog state of the system, which is representative of the overall system health. In previous work, magnetic resonance (MR) measurements, parameters of T1 and T2eff, have been demonstrated as extremely powerful tools to determine the internal clog state of a wetland [1, 2]. Measurements have been performed in a laboratory setting, using low field permanent magnet arrangements. This work presents an Earth’s Field Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (EFNMR) probe suitable for in situ measurements within constructed wetlands. We show T2eff and T1 measurements using the EFNMR probe. T1 values are shown to be sensitive to the change in the clog state with 1498 ms for the thickly clogged sample and 2728 ms for the thinly clogged sample. T2eff values are shown to be marginally more sensitive to clog state with 630 ms for a thickly clogged sample and 1212 ms for the thinly clogged sample. This gives distinguishable variation within both parameters suggesting that this probe is suitable for embedding into an operational constructed wetland. This work was conducted as part of an EU FP7 project to construct an Automated Reed Bed Installation, “ARBI”
Investigating effects from restricted diffusion in multi-component diffusion data
We have investigated model systems in which effects from non-Gaussian restricted diffusion could be separated from effects caused by multiple diffusion coefficients. We applied various models to analyze the experimental data. An analysis based on multi-exponential models does not account correctly for effects caused by restricted diffusion in a system with multiple compartments. However, separating the components due to differences in dynamic behavior prior to the diffusion analysis, combined with a diffusion analysis based on the second cumulant approximation, was more robust, and was able to handle effects from restricted diffusion in the presence of multi-component diffusion