Applications of NMR tomography to mass transfer studies

Abstract

Modern physicochemical applications of NMR tomography, or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), to the investigation of mass transfer processes are described. The mass transfer involved in the sorption of gases, fluids and solutes, swelling of polymers and coal and drying of various materials is considered. Various methods of studying isotropic, anisotropic and restricted diffusion in porous media are discussed. The approaches to the investigation of filtration and the flow of fluids, gases and granulated materials are presented. The bibliography includes 373 references.