Development of Analytical Methods using
Low Field NMR (LFNMR)
Luiz Alberto ColnagoEmbrapa Instrumentation
Brazilian AgriculturalResearch Corporation
Workshop Biorefineries 2010Recent Advances and New Challenges
Firjan, RJ, 10/11/2010
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Nature 466, 554-556 (2010)
Food: The global farmWith its plentiful sun, water and land, Brazil is quickly surpassing
other countries in food production and exports. ….
Jeff Tollefson
25 % of GDP
60 Billion dollars (30% exp.)
“if one wants to know the primary reason of Brazil´s success in three words, they are Embrapa, Embrapa, Embrapa”,
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Brazil 1st exporter
High variability
Commodities- millions of tons
Quality characterization/certification
High-throughput Agri-industrial sensor
- NMR –5
Superconducting Magnet
Transmitter /receiver
High resolution NMR Spectroscopy
Computer
HR-NMR application (solution)
Structure determination
Organic Synthesis
Natural Products
Materials
etc.
codeín
(a)Too expensive,
(b)too delicate for a factory environment
c)too slow for sample moving (2 m/s).
(d) Insufficient time to polarize the samples
(e) High skilled operators
distance (d= 5T1v ) in the magnet
(for v= 2 m/s, T1 = 1 s, d =10 m)
Why conventional NMR fail industrial sensor?Hills and Wright, JMR, 178,193-205, 2006
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Too expensive,
too delicate
High skilled operators
Low resolution NMR - LRNMR
2- Insufficient polarization time
1-Too slow
LRNMR Problems
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LRNMR Problems : Too slow
Poor S/N
Signal average:S/N=(n)1/2
Quantitative measurements = 5T1
Total time: seconds to minutes
Continuous Wave Free Precession (CWFP )
Azeredo et al, Anal. Chem. 72,2401-2405, 2000
n
Solution - LRNMR (S/N and T1)
Tr= 300 s
Mc=M0T2/T1+T2
Conventional NMR and CWFP
700 ms
0.3 ms
Soybean oilT1=140 msT2 =50 ms T2*= 0.5 ms
56 ms
29 ms
0.9 ms
CWFP=Tr<T2*
SSFP
-1.0 -0.5 0.0 0.5 1.0
(b)
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t (msec)
SS
FP
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-1.0 -0.5 0.0 0.5 1.0
(b)
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t (msec)
SS
FP
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-1.0 -0.5 0.0 0.5 1.0
(b)
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D
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t (msec)
SS
FP
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-1.0 -0.5 0.0 0.5 1.0
(b)
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C
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t (msec)
SS
FP
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-1.0 -0.5 0.0 0.5 1.0
(b)
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t (msec)
SS
FP
Am
pli
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T1=T2, Mc=0.5M0
Azeredo et al, Anal. Chim. Acta 478, 313, 2003
Enhance S/N
a) Conventional
0 5 10 15 20
(a) time (ms)
0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8
(b) time (ms)
b) CWFP
0 20 40 60 80 1000
1
2
3
CW
FP
Am
pli
tud
e (
au
)
Oil % (W/W)
Azeredo et al, Anal. Chem. 72,2401-2405, 2000
Online CWFP NMR
Flow effect on CWFP signal
(Azeredo et al, Phys. Rev. E. 64, 016309-1, 2001)
Online NMR
Colnago et al, Anal. Chem. 79, 2382, 2007
Online NMR
99 seeds V=13 cm/s (+ 20,000 samples/h)
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14
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140
CW
FP
am
pli
tud
e (
au
)
Time (s)
r2 = 0.96
Biodiesel program, seeds high oil content100.000 SAMPLES
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10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90
CWFP amplitude (au)
Oil
ma
ss
(g
)
Online Quality Analysis
CPMG –T2
0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0
Time (s)
(+ 1000 samples/h)
CPMG Analysis
0,0 0,5 1,0
0,0
0,5
1,0
D
C
BA
CP
MG
ech
o a
mp
litu
de
(a
u)
Time (s)
A-linseed; B- Soybean; C- Macadamia; D- Castor bean
Prestes et al,, Anal. Chim. Acta, 596, 325-329, 2007
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Ce
tan
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be
r fr
om
NM
R
Cetane number calculated from GC
Multivariate analysis (PLS)
Prestes et al, Anal. Chim. Acta, 596, 325-329, 2007
80 100 120 140 160 180
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120
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c)
IV
nu
mb
er
fro
m N
MR
IV number calculated from GC
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High oleic acid peanuts (Margarine substitute)
3 x 4000 samples IAC
0 10 20 30 40
0,14
0,16
0,18
T2 (
ms)
Seed number
Mobile RMN
But not the for: inside-out, ex-situ, remote, single-sided, one-sided access Spectrometer
conventional
unilateral (U shape)
B0B1
NS
SN
N S NS
B0B1
Conventional NMR – Sample size depend on bore or gap size.
Ex. MOUSE (MObile Universal Surface Explorer) *
Unilateral RMN
Applications at Embrapa
Monitor biodiesel reaction
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T* 2 (
ms)
Biodiesel Percentage0 20 40 60 80 100 120
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T* 2 (
ms)
Reaction Time (ms)
Monitor biodiesel reaction
ANG. CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 49 ,4133, 2010
Collaborations
Prof. Mario Engelsberg – DF/UFPe
Prof. Rodrigo B. V. Azeredo – DQO/UFF
Prof. Tiago Venâncio- DQ-UFSCar
Prof. Lucio L. Barbosa IQ-UFES
Graduate Students-USP
Fabiana Diuk
Antonio Marchi Netto
Pos-Doc.
Lucinéia Vizzotto
Acknowledgments to brazilian funding agencies
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Thank you
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Insufficient polarization time
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