Effects of biofilms on pore-size distribution in glass bead reactors studied by 1H NMR relaxometry

Jaeger, Fabian; Korn, H.; Böckelmann, U.; Schaumann, Gabriele E.

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“…1 H NMR relaxometry was first used in soil science in 1970 to measure the water content in soil samples (Prebble & Currie, 1970), but application today is still limited. It was applied to characterize water in peat (McBrierty et al ., 1996), study soil‐water interactions (Todoruk et al ., 2003a,b; Schaumann et al ., 2004; Schaumann et al ., 2005) and study interactions between soil and soil microorganisms (Jaeger et al ., 2006; 2007). First attempts to determine pore size distributions in soil samples using 1 H NMR relaxometry were made by Hinedi et al .…”

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Evaluation of ¹H NMR relaxometry for the assessment of pore‐size distribution in soil samples

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European J Soil Science

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1 H NMR relaxometry is used in earth science as a non-destructive and time-saving method to determine pore size distributions (PSD) in porous media with pore sizes ranging from nm to mm. This is a broader range than generally reported for results from X-ray computed tomography (X-ray CT) scanning, which is a slower method. For successful application of 1 H NMR relaxometry in soil science, it is necessary to compare PSD results with those determined from conventional methods. The PSD of six disturbed soil samples with various textures and soil organic matter (SOM) content were determined by conventional soil water retention at matric potentials between −3 and −390 kPa (pF 1.5-3.6). These PSD were compared with those estimated from transverse relaxation time (T 2 ) distributions of water in soil samples at pF 1.5 using two different approaches. In the first, pore sizes were estimated using a mean surface relaxivity of each soil sample determined from the specific surface area. In the second and new approach, two surface relaxivities for each soil sample, determined from the T 2 distributions of the soil samples at different matric potentials, were used. The T 2 distributions of water in the samples changed with increasing soil matric potential and consisted of two peaks at pF 1.5 and one at pF 3.6. The shape of the T 2 distributions at pF 1.5 was strongly affected by soil texture and SOM content (R 2 = 0.51 − 0.95). The second approach (R 2 = 0.98) resulted in good consistency between PSD, determined by soil water retention, and 1 H NMR relaxometry, whereas the first approach resulted in poor consistency. Pore sizes calculated from the NMR data ranged from 100 μm to 10 nm. Therefore, the new approach allows 1 H NMR relaxometry to be applied for the determination of PSD in soil samples and for studying swelling of SOM and clay and its effects on pore size in a fast and non-destructive way. This is not, or only partly, possible by conventional soil water retention or X-ray CT.

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Evaluation of ¹H NMR relaxometry for the assessment of pore‐size distribution in soil samples

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European J Soil Science

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Effects of biofilms on pore-size distribution in glass bead reactors studied by 1H NMR relaxometry

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