Patent ID: 11914013
Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, BALTIMORE
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method of determining a sedimentation rate of solids in a multiphase mixture sample using wNMR, said method comprising:
inserting a vial comprising the multiphase mixture sample into a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy probe;
determining a transverse relaxation rate of water R2(1H2O, T) of the multiphase mixture sample at time T over a total time Ttotal;
calculating the multiphase mixture sample sedimentation rate (SRsample); and
comparing the multiphase mixture sample SRsample to an approved control sedimentation rate (SRcont) for the multiphase mixture, wherein if the multiphase mixture sample SRsample is outside of an acceptable range of the approved SRcont, the multiphase mixture sample is less stable relative to an approved multiphase mixture.