July 17, 2006
Abstracts Available for Magnetic Resonance in Food Science Meeting
The Abstracts for the Posters and Speaker Sessions of the 8th International Conference on The Application of Magnetic Resonance in Food Science (July 16-19, 2006) can be found at the following locations – Poster Abstracts and Speaker Abstracts .

July 13, 2006
Stelar Develops New Benchtop FFC Spectrometer and Forms JV Company Invento
Stelar s.r.l. has announced that it will be producing a new benchtop design for it’s Fast Field Cycling NMR product becoming available in September 2006, and also the availability of a new single board NMR console - available June 2006. the company has also formed a JV company called Invento s.r.l. which is a combination of Stelar and a business incubator at the Univerity of Torino. The mission of Invento is to further the development of FFC NMR techniques as standard methodolgies in testing laboratories and to perhaps replace other TD-NMR spectrometers.

July 11, 2006
NMR Monitoring of Magnetic Field Strength of CERN Large Hadron Collider
A group of physicists at the University of Manchester are developing NMR probe technologies to monitor the magnetic field strength inside the solenoids of the Atlas LHC at CERN. The probe technology and accompanying NMR spectrometers are described on the Manchester website.

July 3, 2006
Process NMR Paper at San Francisco ACS Meeting - September 2006
ENITechnologie will be presenting a paper on the on-line application of NMR in lube plant operation at the upcoming ACS Meeting in San Francisco.

Experiencing Process MRA Industrial Lube Plant Application – Roberto Giardino1, Silvia Guanziroli1, Cinzia Passerini1, and Antonio Farina2. (1) EniTecnologie S.p.A, via Maritano, 26, San Donato M.se (MI), 20097, Italy, (2) Divisione Refining & Marketing – Raffineria di Livorno, Eni S.p.A, via Aurelia, 7, 57017 Stagno (LI), Italy.
In a conventional base oil production plant the operating conditions needed to produce products at a desired specification are very sensitive to feed quality. At Livorno refinery an on-line Process Magnetic Resonance Analyzer (MRA) has been installed to identify the feedstock and product composition and properly set an advanced process control system. By using MRA it is possible to reduce the product quality give-away due to feed quality variation. In this work the industrial experience acquired is reported.
Characterization, On-Line Monitoring, and Sensing of Petroleums and Petrochemicals 8:30 AM-11:30 AM, Thursday, 14 September 2006 Sheraton Palace—Telegraph Hill
Division of Petroleum ChemistryThe 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, CA, September 10-14, 2006

June 19, 2006
Application Overview for Spin Track TD-NMR Spectrometers
Due to it’s broad versatility the Spin Track NMR Hardware supports all standard NMR routines such as AOCS Cd 16b-93, AOCS Cd 16-81, ISO 8292, IUPAC2.150 and creative scientific research. Spin Track has been successfully approved in the food and polymer industries for routine analysis. If your application is not described below please contact John Edwards for discussion.
Solid Fat Content (SFC) AnalysisThe quality of food products containing fats and oils depends on solid fat content (SFC). SFC determination is an essential measurement in the baking, confectionery, and fat industries. NMR has been established as the method for SFC determination by ISO 8292. Measurements of SFC by the Spin Track NMR analyzer can be performed quickly and accurately with great benefit for the manufacturer.
Simultaneous Rapid-Determination of Oil and Water in SeedsSunflower, soybean, groundnut, rape and mustard are appreciated for their oil content, but excess of water content reduces their price. Thus, an accurate and fast determination of oil and water content is important to both manufacturers and customers. The Spin Track NMR analyzer meets ISO 10565 requirements and gives the possibility to simultaneously determine of oil and water content.
Oil/Fat and Moisture analysis in Chocolate, Powdered Milk, Cheese and other Food ProductsTime of storage of food products depends strongly on moisture content. Excess moisture leads to microbiological activity and can make food consumption dangerous. Fat and moisture content also heavily influence taste. Manufacturers are also regulated to disclose the exact information on the fat content of their products. NMR is the most rapid and exact method to determine these essential parameters. The Spin Track NMR analyzer is especially suitable for regular analysis of food quality.
Curing Degree and Elasticity Analysis in Rubber-Type Materials
Over the past years Rheology has become widely accepted as a tool in the investigation of rubber properties. However, rheological testing equipment can be extremely expensive and complicated. NMR is very sensitive to the structure and properties of investigated rubber materials. The Spin Track NMR-analyzer allows investigators to obtain data complementary to rheology and can also prove to be more informative.
Moisture and Crystallinity Analysis in PolysaccharidesPolysaccharides like chitin, chitosan etc. are widely used because of inherent unique properties. Adsorbents and food bio-additions based on them require a regular check of quality. Spin Track NMR-analyzer allows investigators to obtain information about moisture, crystallinity, purity and structure of polysaccharides.
Porosity of Rock Cores/Heterogeneous Catalysts/ZeolitesThe possibility of oil development can be defined more exactly in the initial stages of exploration by using NMR. Rock cores saturated by bitumen or water provide information on degree of saturation, structure of saturating compounds, porosity, and diffusion characteristics. This information allows the prediction of oil production yields. The Spin Track NMR-analyzer with a 35mm probe gives the possibility to obtain such information.
Scientific applicationsThe spectrometer’s Relax software allows construction of many types of NMR pulse sequences, user-defined interfaces, data processing (digital experiments filtering, fitting, Fourier and Laplace transforms) and data manipulations. Thus, customers can directly run automated standard type NMR experiments just by “pressing one button” in the program shell, or create new applications using the powerful pascal-like script language. Widely used experiments like measurements of T1 and T2 (90-tau-90, 180-tau-90, CPMG, FID, Spin Echo, Solid-Echo) are included into the Relax software as default examples. The NMR measurements can be accompanied with the high precision calibration samples and built-in software calibration procedures. Easy automatic tuning of the NMR frequency, pulse-durations, TX power and RX gain is included into the software package.

Process NMR Associates Begins Marketing of Cutting Edge TD-NMR Spectrometer
Resonance Systems Ltd. has granted Process NMR Associates the rights to promote, market, and sell it’s NMR products and custom NMR hardware in the Americas, and Worldwide. The basic product of the company is a portable NMR-analyzer called Spin Track that can be used for many different low and high resolution NMR applications.
Spin Track meets the requirements of many relaxation and diffusion based NMR analyses:
Food industry (Solid Fat Content Analysis, Dairy Products, Oil and Moisture in Chocolate, Powdered Milk, Cheese and other food products; Oil and Moisture in seeds, Emulsion Characteristics)Lipid Analysis – Fatty Acid DistributionCellulose and paper manufacturing (Moisture/Crystallinity Analysis, investigations of ageing effects)Oil industry (rock cores analysis, oil-water, oil-water-gas, viscosity, physical property correlation, )Polymer and rubber industry (Curing degree and elasticity analysis, polymer ageing, glass transition, amorphous/crystalline content)Chemical industry (Density, Melting Points, Copolymer Ratios, Compatibility, Cure, Cross Linking, H or F content,Medicine (NMR Surface Analysis of Patients, Plasma Analysis)Environmental (Water Pollution, Forest Degradation, Soils, Fertilizers)Fibers – Moisture and Finish ContentPharmaceuticals (Tablet Analysis, Coatings/Components/Moisture, Hydrogen/Fluorine/Sodium Content)Relaxation, Diffusion, Particle Size, Pore Size Distribution
Utilization of mobile NMR measurement equipment from Process NMR Associates provides the following advantages:
Reduction of expenses associated with meeting quality requirements of productsSimplicity of use in routine production measurements and in advanced laboratories for complicated analysisMobility of the hardware and low cost for the overall deviceNon-invasive measurements of any sampleHardware solutions for non-standard NMR applicationsPermanent technical support and comprehensive scientific consultingFair price and absolute ease of operation!
Portable Low-Resolution NMR Analyzer
Analyzer is designed to perform:
All standard NMR applicationsDevelopment of new NMR-based techniquesTeaching quantum physics, NMR, analytical chemistry in Universities and Colleges
NMR analyzer Spin Track comprises functional parts (probes, preamplifier and duplexer, TX Power Amplifier, Sequence Generator and PC Interface, Data Acquisition System, NMR Transceiver) which can be purchased separately and used for the specific needs of an advanced customer (see example of connection assembly). Depending on the required magnet system the Spin Track can be used as NMR relaxometer or high resolution NMR spectrometer.
Basic characteristics of Spin Track analyzer:
Frequency range of the NMR spectrometer module: 5..60 MHz
Ringing time for 10 mm NMR probe is 8 ms
Probe tube diameter: up to 35 mm
Changeable preamplifiers and 50 Ohm matched duplexers with self bandwidth of 5 MHz
Customer-defined set of sensors (5, 10 and 30mm test-tube magnet systems, NMR surface sensors)
Adjustable TX output power up to 400 Watts
Adjustable RX channel gain up to 107
RX Sensitivity better than 1 mV (conditions: signal to noise ratio 3)
Adjustable digital filter bandwidth from 100 Hz up to 1 MHz
Pulse sequence length up to 64K events with resolution 100 ns
Quadrature 64Kx10-bit data acquisition system
Complete control of functions via personal computer – USB 2.0 ConnectivityFast sensors replacement
Compatible with all Microsoft® Windows® operating systems
Software
The product software, Relax, is a powerful tool containing many standard NMR relaxation routines and applications, and can also be used to create new pulse-sequences, pulsed field gradients, gains and attenuations, post-processing methodolgies of considerable complexity. The built-in script language is based on a widespread Pascal syntax and is enriched with commands for fitting, Fourier and Laplace transforms, Low-pass filtering, etc. The script supports dialogue windows, static messages, user-defined diagrams, data manipulation procedures. Relax also allows direct processing of data obtained when utilizing Spin Track as a high-resolution NMR spectrometer.
Stationary Low-Resolution TD-NMR Analyzer
Analyzer is designed to perform:
Standard routine NMR applicationsDevelopment of new NMR-based techniquesTeaching quantum physics, NMR, and analytical chemistry in Universities and Colleges
The Spin Track Stationary fulfills all requirements to conduct NMR measurements like portable version of NMR analyzer.In addition it is supplied with the possibility for increased probe volume to facilitate excellent statistical averaging of experimental results or to accomodate large samples.
Basic characteristics of Stationary Spin Track Analyzer:
Frequency range of the NMR spectrometer module: 5..60 MHz
Ringing time for 10 mm NMR probe is 8 ms
Probe tube diameter: up to 35 mm
Changeable preamplifiers and 50 Ohm matched duplexers with self bandwidth of 5 MHz
Customer-defined set of sensors (5, 10 and 30mm test-tube magnet systems, NMR surface sensors)
Adjustable TX output power up to 400 Watts
Adjustable RX channel gain up to 107RX Sensitivity better than 1 mV (conditions: signal to noise ratio 3)
Adjustable digital filter bandwidth from 100 Hz up to 1 MHz
Pulse sequence length up to 64K events with resolution 100 ns
Quadrature 64Kx10-bit data acquisition system
Complete control of functions via personal computer – USB 2.0 ConnectivityFast sensors replacement
Compatible with all Microsoft® Windows® operating systems
Relax Software
Educational Low-Resolution TD-NMR Spectrometer
Analyzer is designed to demonstrate NMR spin dynamics as well as provide a basic platform for undergraduate level chemistry and physics labs.Standard routine NMR applications (FID, Spin Echo, CPMG, Carr-Purcell, T1-Determination (90-90 or inversion recovery))Development of new NMR-based techniques – software allows development of pulse sequences by students without risk of instrument damage.Teaching quantum physics, NMR, and analytical chemistry in Universities and Colleges
Basic characteristics of Stationary Spin Track Analyzer:
Frequency range of the NMR spectrometer module: 10..20 MHz
NMR Probe tube diameter: 5 mm
10-20 MHz Magnets,
Surface NMR Sensors
Changeable preamplifiers and 50 Ohm matched duplexers with self bandwidth of 5 MHz
Adjustable TX output power up to 100 Watts
Adjustable RX channel gain up to 107
RX Sensitivity better than 1 mV (conditions: signal to noise ratio 3)
Adjustable digital filter bandwidth from 100 Hz up to 1 MHz
Pulse sequence length up to 64K events with resolution 100 ns
Quadrature 64Kx10-bit data acquisition system
Complete control of functions via personal computer – USB 2.0 ConnectivityCompatible with all Microsoft® Windows® operating systems
Relax Software
Custom NMR Components
For NMR engineers and advanced specialists Process NMR Associates offers accessories to upgrade, modernize, or build new NMR related devices (see connection example). All modules can be purchased separately and modules can be developed with unique characteristics to fulfill special requirements of the customer.
Surface NMR Sensors NMR Sequence Generator
Data Acquisition Unit Wide-Band NMR Transceiver
NMR Power Amplifier NMR Pre-Amplifiers and Duplexers
For more information and pricing please contact John Edwards
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June 1, 2006
United States Department of the Interior - Oil Shale and Tar Sands Leasing Programmatic EIS
The public forum site of the department of the interior related to the environmental impact statement is found at the following location. The site contains excellent overviews of the tar sands and oil shales found in Wyoming-Colorado-Utah. Excellent Oil Shale site from the DOE with strategic significance reports and government policy statements.

Bruker BioSciences Corporation Announces Agreement to Acquire Bruker Optics Inc.
An interesting news article from Bruker world – “Bruker BioSciences Corporation Announces Agreement to Acquire Bruker Optics Inc. for $135 Million in Cash and Stock” dated April 17, 2006. Fascinating…. of particular interest from the process analytical and molecular spectroscopy side was Bruker Optics VP Dan Klevisha’s comment – ” For Bruker Optics, becoming part of a larger and public company will also allow us to explore complementary acquisitions.”

Materials Research Society - Symposium on Magnetic Resonance in Material Science
The Materials Research Society announces a call for papers for it’s Symposium (MM) on Magentic Resonance in Material Science to be held at the Fall Meeting in Boston on November 27 – December 1, 2006. Abstracts are due by June 20th.

Alternative Sources of NMR Equipment - Beyond the Big 3
There are a number of alternatives to buying new systems from Bruker-Varian-JEOL. A number of third party suppliers are present in the market selling and supporting refurbished used NMR systems. These companies can install and warranty the systems as well as maintain the cryogens for you if you wish. The companies that specialize in supercon NMR systems are Triangle Analytical, RS2D, NMR Associates, and MR Resources. A great place for used probes and repair is J S Research. Consoles can be obtained from Tecmag and from Anasazi (Anasazi also provides refurbished 60 and 90 MHz electro/permanent magnet systems). Spincore provides NMR spectrometer components for those who want to build their own instruments. Magritek, Minispec, Oxford Instruments, Resonance Systems, Progression, PCT, all sell TD-NMR instruments.
Process NMR Associates can guide you through this maze of choices.

May 31, 2006
Stan’s NMR Blog - Two Articles on Magnetic Field Noise Effects
Stan Sykora continues to expand his excellent NMR blog with two new articles on NMR signal reproducibility. His articles cover how field noise effects the repeatability of NMR signals such as FIDs and spectra and Hahn echoes and CPMG trains. In our experience of online NMR we have worked extensively on this topic with respect to the repeatability of the processed NMR spectrum and it’s effect on the repeatability/reproducibility of the chemometric predictions employed for process control. As Stan notes, if people have done a lot of work in this area it is certainly not being reported … mea culpa.

FAPRI World Agricultural Outlook 2006
The Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute has published it’s annual U.S and World Agricultural Outlook for 2006.

May 30, 2006
Online TD-NMR Analyzers for 19F and 31P Analysis of Minerals and Phosphates
I guess you learn something everyday… The Harrison R. Cooper Systems Company of Bountiful Utah has been marketing low field Phosphorus-31 and Fluorine-19 NMR analyzers for a phospate mineral benefication process and for fluorine monitoring in mineral slurries. It appears from the site that only a few installations were made and no indication of successful outcomes or benefits are provided in the analyzer and process descriptions. I can’t decipher where the NMR technology originated….perhaps Auburn?

May 26, 2006
21.1 Tesla Quench Video
The University of Colorado Health Science Center installed a pumped 900 MHz system in 2005. They have an awesome video of a deliberate quench of the magnet as part of the ramping protocol. Here is the link to the video and here is a link to the NIH funded facility.

1H and 13C Shifts of Common NMR Solvents - Excel Table
Edward Vawter of QD Information Services has made available two useful excel spreadsheets containing the 1H chemical shifts and 13C chemical shifts of most common deuterated NMR solvents. He also has a few other useful articles available from his download page.

Hilarious NMR Adventures at Stanford
Dylan Stiles at Stanford has an often hilarious blog category dedicated to the NMR aspects of his natural product synthesis projects. He gets a lot of commentary which is great as I think he has the only NMR blog that anyone cares to read. His blog is at http://blog.tenderbutton.com/?cat=9.

NMR Post-Processing Software for Mac Users
Phillip Grandinetti of Ohio State University (Research Group Site) offers an NMR post processing program for mac users called RMN at his website. He has an alpha version that runs under OS X and he is looking for alpha-testers to kick the tires. A more mature version is available that runs under Mac Classic OS.
Mestrec laboratories also offer a cheap (50/100 Euro) software package that is available at iNMR.

May 22, 2006
AMMRL Meeting at 47th ENC - Asilomar, CA, April 2006 - Presentations
The AMMRL (Association of Managers in Magnetic Resonance Laboratories) held an annual meeting at which a number of presentations were given that give an idea of the economics and issues that arise for University NMR Facility Managers and Administrators, the links are below:Charlie Fry—IntroductionKen Visscher—Open-Access Laboratories in Industry Nick Burlinson—Design and Installation of a Departmental NMR FacilityEugene DeRose—Problems and Protections for Pumped Magnets Josh Kurutz—A Survey of Business Models for Academic Facilities David Vander Velde—Cryoprobes and Money (a.k.a. Losing Money) Klaas Hallenga—Practical Tips and Tricks with Cryogenic Probes
The AMMRL has a website with some basic information at http://chemnmr.colorado.edu/ammrl/ and has an invaluable archive of “user group” e-mails that discuss all aspects of running and maintaining an NMR facility (Email – Archives 1993-Present). If you have a question about instrument problems, instrument and cryogen maintenance, user training, user competency, safety issues, etc …. chances are the answers are already included in this database. The database can also be searched by key word to arrive at “on-topic” material.

May 18, 2006
The Anatomy of a Superconducting NMR Magnet
Dr Joseph Vaughn of Florida State University has placed an autopsy of a Varian R2D2 7.05 Tesla NMR magnet on the department website. The innards of the magnet and probe are all exposed in the gory photographs. Check it out at the FSU chemistry site : http://www.chem.fsu.edu/facilities/cutaway_nmr_magnet.asp
This is one of the siblings of the magnets that we operate in our labortory at Process NMR Associates. The site is only for those with a strong stomach.

May 16, 2006
8th International Bologna Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Porous Media
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This conference (MRPM8) will be held September 10-14 at the University of Bologna, Italy. It is being held a few days after the 6th Colloquium on Mobile magnetic Resonance in Aachen Germany, (September 6-8, CMMR6) to facilitate the attendance of conferees at both meetings.

May 3, 2006
Symbion Systems Inc
Symbion Systems Inc has developed a family of software products that provide a common interface for communicating with, networking, and controlling many analytical instruments, and sample systems, in a laboratory or process analysis setting. The software can control many individual analyzers from different vendors, process the data and visualize it, store the data in SQL databases, and perform complex chemometric analysis by calling various calibrations from many chemometric software platforms. The predictions obtained from process analytical instrumentation can be plotted, visualized, stored, and outputted under many standard formats for integration with process control and optimization software. A version can be obtained that is GLP/GMP/21 CFR, Part 11 compliant. The software will provide an excellent platform for development and execution of analytical laboratory methods, as well as process analytical applications.

One Moon Scientific Inc.
Bruce Johnson of One Moon Scientific (ex Merck) has produced a series of software tools for visualizing and analyzing spectroscopic data with particular emphasis on NMR data. His NMRViewJ can process and visualize NMR datasets in 1 or multiple dimensions and has built in molecular visualization and statistical data analysis tools. The software is “free” but Bruce asks that if you download and use it you should pay a “support contract fee” in order to support the ongoing development of the NMR software products.

April 26, 2006
16th ISMAR 2007 - Website Posted
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The International Society of Magnetic Resonance announces the 16th Triennial Conference to be held at Kenting, Taiwan, October 14-19, 2007. Organized by the Taiwan Magnetic Resonance Society, Academia Sinica, Taiwan – Website is found at http://www.ismar2007.sinica.edu.tw/

April 1, 2006
Energy Information
Here are a few excellent links to the energy situation in the 21st Century:
Energy Technologies for the Twenty-First CenturyWEC - Survey of Energy Resources 2001DOE - This Week in PetroleumEnergy Information Administration – Main Site
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March 15, 2006
Modern Drug Discovery - NMR Articles
Filed under: Analytical NMR — Administrator @ 2:00 pm
ACS Publication “Modern Drug Discovery” – Available NMR ArticlesScreening with NMRNMR Spectroscopy Software – Molecular biologists can now use proton NMR data to elucidate protein structure.NMR on TargetUltracool NMR Technology – CryoprobesLooking for Quality

March 14, 2006
NMR of Silicones in Pharmaceutical Developments
Dow Corning have published a small overview paper on manufacturing processes and development of silicones in pharmaceutical formulations. The paper includes characterization details by FT-IR and NMR.

The 6th Colloquium on Mobile Magnetic Resonance - Official Website now Posted
The 6th Colloquium on Mobile Magnetic Resonance has now posted an official website to cover the meeting at http://www.cmmr.de/index.htm

March 13, 2006
PNA Talk - Dr Giammatteo to Present Sigma Xi Seminar at Quinnipiac University
Hamden, Conn. – Dr. Paul J. Giammatteo, co-founder of Process NMR Associates, will present “Pulse, Acquire, Control: Ten Years of Online High-Resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) in Refining, Petrochemical and Food Manufacturing” at 12 p.m. on Monday, March 27, in the Clarice L. Buckman Theater at Quinnipiac University.
The free lecture is open to the public and is part of Sigma XI Special Seminar Series.
From gasoline manufacturing to butter production, more than 140 online NMRs have been placed in manufacturing plants worldwide. Giammatteo will discuss installation and utilization of this technology, its application in the petroleum and petrochemical industries and the future in pharmaceuticals.
Giammatteo co-founded Process NMR Associates, based in Danbury, in 1997. He previously worked for Texaco for 17 years. Giammatteo received his doctorate in chemistry from Wesleyan University and has published and presented more than 30 papers.
For more information, contact James Kirby, associate professor of chemistry at Quinnipiac, at (203) 582-8275 or James.Kirby@quinnipiac.edu

March 10, 2006
NMR Applications in Food Quality
Overview document on Belgian Science Policy as it pertains to the use of low and high field NMR in the quality control of food.
Quantification by 1H NMR of Fatty Acids and Their Derivatives – by G. Knothe – USDA
An incredible repository of NMR information related to 1H and 13C NMR of Fatty Acids and their derivatives is found at the Lipid Library.

What is Your Carbon Footprint?
A handy calculator from BP allows you to calculate your impact on global warming – Carbon Calculator.

Heavy Oil and Bitumen Upgrading
“Bitumen from Canadian Oil Sands – The Worlds New Marginal Supply of Oil” – January 2006
“Oil Sands: Alberta’s Opportunity to Become a Significant Oil Exporter” – by Fluor, February 2004.
National Center for Upgrading Technology – Conference on “Upgrading and Refining of Heavy Oil, Bitumen and Synthetic Crude Oil” – September 2006 – Details
“Bitumen and Very Heavy Crude Upgrading Technology – A Review of Long Term R&D Opportunities” March 2004
Genoil demonstration of an upgraded bitumen – effects on TBP and other physical properties.
“Fueling an Integrated Energy Future” – Energy Innovation Network, December 2004
Kearl Lake Bitumen Extraction Project
“Historical Perspective of the Heavy Oil Resources of Utah”
USGS - “Heavy Oil and Natural Bitumen-Strategic Petroleum Resources”
“Non-Conventional Hydrocarbons – Where and How Much”
Energy Independence for North America Through Heavy Oil Upgrading – Presentation – same material but presented as a Paper
Alberta Energy Research Institute – Strategic Research Plan
Shell – Gasification in Heavy Oil Upgrading in Alberta
“The Impact of Emerging Research Techniques on Exploitation and Refining Technology Development” John Shaw – University of Alberta
“Alberta’s Oils Sands Opportunity”
Jacobs Engineering – Oils Sands Production Presentation
Total – Tar Sands Production Presentation
Effect of Tar Sands on World Oil Supply – Imperial Oil
Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas
Alternative Fuels – An Energy technology Perspective – March 2005
“Integration Opportunities for Coal/Oil Coprocessing With Existing Refineries”
Oil Sands Supply Outlook – March 2004

March 9, 2006
Spatial Encoding Produces 2D-NMR in a Single Scan
Ultrafast 2D NMR spectroscopy obtained in a single scan is described by Lucio Frydman of the Weizman Institutein his paper entitled “Single Scan 2D NMR”

Metabonomics Overview - High Field 1H NMR in Metabolite Profiling
Professor John Lindon (Metabometrix Ltd) provides an Overview of Metabonomics relating the role of high field 1H NMR in metabolite profiling in biofluids.

March 1, 2006
Polymer Chemistry Resource
Beautiful site that gives overviews of most polymer chemistry systems.