| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/S20789/01 |
| Title: |
MRI In Chemical Engineering: New Techniques and New Applications |
| Principal Investigator: |
Gladden, Professor L |
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| Department: |
Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology |
| Organisation: |
University of Cambridge |
| Scheme: |
Platform Grants (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 December 2003 |
Ends: |
30 November 2008 |
Value (£): |
433,429
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Complex fluids & soft solids |
Instrumentation Eng. & Dev. |
| Multiphase Flow |
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| Chemicals |
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Summary on Grant Application Form |
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Since receiving initial funding in 1994, the research activities within MRRC have grown substantially such that it now supports the research activities of 5 senior research workers, 1 seconded industrial scientist, 3 PDRAs and 11 PhD students. In parallel with these activities, at any one time, we also enagage in 3-5 collaborations with research groups external to the Department of Chemical Engineering and, often, external to Cambridge as well as working closely with collaborators in the industrial sector. Until 3 years ago, much of our research was based around solving problems in chemical engineering using established NMR techniques and combining these methods with our own developments in image analysis and numerical modelling. More recently, we have devloped a leading-edge capability in the development of fast techniques such that we can exploit the non-invasive, molecule specific capability of magnetic resonance to study optically opaque and multi-phase systems in the non steady state. This work opens vast areas of chemical engineering for study. This project will enable us to commit skilled manpower to develop robust, fast, multi-nuclear imaging techniques and demonstrate their application in chemical and bioscience engineering, and to put this work in context with the capabilities of other tomographic measurements. Our 5-year programme will develop the skill base for our next generation research projects and provide the manpower and expertise in areas of eScience and IT such that we fully exploit the developments in magnetic resonance techniques made in new engineering applications.
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http://www.cam.ac.uk |