Process NMR Symposia to be held at EAS 2007
John Edwards of Process NMR Associates has organized and sponsored two symposium sessions at the Eastern Analytical Symposium in Somerset New Jersey, November 12-15, 2007. One session will focus on high-resolution process NMR and the other on applications of TD-NMR in process control. The speakers and talk titles are listed below. Check the EAS site for exact details on the date and time of the sessions (EAS website). If you are interested in attending and would like to submit a paper for presentation visit the EAS Abstract submission site.
Session Title: Process NMR Technology - High Resolution NMR
John Edwards, Process NMR Associates, “Introduction to NMR in Process Control”
Miko DeLevy, Qualion NMR Analyzers, “Standardizing and Stabilizing NMR Calibration Transfer”
Paul Giammatteo, NMR Process Systems, “More from the Barrel - On-line NMR Increases Diesel Production and Quality”
Marcus Trygstad, Invensys Process Systems, “Taking NMR into the Refining Process: Best Practices and Benefits”
Andreas Kaerner , Eli Lilly, “Get Your Head Out of the Sand: Use of Reaction-NMR to Better Understand Reactions in Process Development”
Veena Bansal, Indian Oil Corporation, “Direct Prediction of Gasoline Properties for Monitoring Refinery Processes by 1H NMR Spectroscopy”
Session Title: Process NMR Technology - TD-NMR
Harry Xie, Bruker Optics, “Recent Developments in Time-domain NMR and its Applications in Polymer Industry”
Vaughn Davis, Progression Inc, “Time Domain NMR: Uses and Contributions to Process Control”
YiQiao Song, Schlumberger-Doll, “Recent Progress of NMR and MRI in Petroleum Exploration”
Maziar Sardashti, ConocoPhillips, “Applications of TD NMR to Laboratory and On-line Polymer Analysis”
Sergey Kryuchkov, University of Calgary, “Challenges in Online Water Cut Monitoring of Heavy Oil Thermal Operations Using Low Field NMR”
Chris Borgia, Colgate Palmolive, “Benchtop Fluoride NMR: A Rapid QC/QA Method”
Trans Fat Analysis by NMR
A series of Trans Fat standards was purchased from AOCS. The ability of 1H and 13C NMR to predict Trans Fat Content as well as
Saturated, Poly-unsaturated, and Mono-unsaturated Fat Content
The data of the samples is presented in the table below:
PLS regression techniques were used to correlate 1H and 13C NMR spectral variation to the unsaturation level and type of unsaturation of the samples.
Processed 13C data is shown below:
1H NMR data is shown below:
The following correlations were obtained from the 13C NMR data.
NMR Analysis of Essential Oils - Example of Sri Lankan Citronella
The data below shows the ability of 13C NMR to assign the natural product distribution found in essential oils. Once assignment of the oil hgas been obtained by 13C NMR the 1H NMR can also be assigned. For QA/QC a benchtop 60 MHz system has enough resolution that authenticity of essential oils can be performed either visually of by PCA type analysis.
Ger - Geraniol GerAc - Geranyl Acetate iEugMe - Methylisoeugenol Bor - Borneol
aPin - alpha-pinene Lim - Limonene tOci - trans-beta-Ocimene Cen - Camphene
Cllo - Citronellol Clla - Citronellal GenD - Germacrene D aCal - Citral A (Geranial)
aTol - alpha-Terpiniol cOci - cis-beta-Ocimene Myr - Myrcene
Process NMR for Esterification Monitoring and Certification of Biodiesel
1H NMR has been used extensively to analyze biodiesel the vegetable oil feeds, reaction intermediates, and final products of the biodiesel esterification process.
See Oliviera et al, Talanta 69 (2006) 1278-1284 and Gnothe, J. Am. Oil Chem. Soc 78, 1025-1028 (2001)
The final biodiesel product is a B5 (5% Biodiesel) or B20 (20% Biodiesel) blend of biodiesel in refinery produced diesel fuel. Researchers have performed method developments to analyze the biodiesel content in diesel fuels by NIR using 1H NMR as the primary method to quantify the biodiesel content. (See Jin et al, Fuel 86(7-8), 1201-1207 (2007) and Knothe J. Am. Oil Chem. Soc. 77 489-493 (2001). Process NMR at 60 MHz can be used to quantify the biodiesel directly. Below is an example slide of a biodiesel 1H NMR spectrum compared to two different diesel fuel spectra.
The chemistry that is directly observed in the NMR spectrum as well as the distinct chemical regions that are present in the diesel and biodiesel make this analysis relatively straightforward. Chemometrics can be used or quantitation can be obtained directly from a simple spectral calibration.
Biodiesel Production Monitoring
NMR can be used to follow the reaction of biodiesel directly, the following slides show the steps in the esterification process.
Glycerol content in the biodiesel or unconverted vegetable oil content can be determined easily directly from the spectrum.
Expansion of Incomplete Reaction Series
Work is currently underway to develop NMR calibration models that can predict the various quality parameters specified in ASTM D6751 for biodiesel.
These calibrations, based on either 1H or 13C NMR, when validated would allow rapid testing of biodiesel production batches and would make complete analysis of small production batches economically feasible (there is no point making 300 gallons of biodiesel if you have to perform $2000 of testing on the batch).
