Through the looking glass: Unraveling the network structure of coal
Since the original idea by Sanada and Honda of treating coal as a three-dimensional cross-linked network, coal structure has been probed by monitoring ingress of solvents using traditional volumetric or gravimetric methods. However, using these techniques has allowed only an indirect observation of the swelling process. More recently, the authors have developed magnetic resonance microscopy (MRM) approaches for studying solvent ingress in polymeric systems, about which fundamental aspects of the swelling process can be deduced directly and quantitatively. The aim of their work is to utilize solvent transport and network response parameters obtained from these methods to assess fundamental properties of the system under investigation. Polymer and coal samples have been studied to date. Numerous swelling parameters measured by magnetic resonance microscopy are found to correlate with cross-link density of the polymer network under investigation. Use of these parameters to assess the three-dimensional network structure of coal is discussed.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- US Department of Energy (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31109-ENG-38
- OSTI ID:
- 751857
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/CHM/CP-100329; TRN: AH200018%%107
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 219th American Chemical Society National Meeting, San Francisco, CA (US), 03/26/2000--03/30/2000; Other Information: PBD: 23 Dec 1999
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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