TY - JOUR A1 - Léonard, Fabien A1 - Zhang, Zhen A1 - Krebs, Holger A1 - Bruno, Giovanni T1 - Structural and Morphological Quantitative 3D Characterisation of Ammonium Nitrate Prills by X-ray Computed Tomography JF - Materials N2 - The mixture of ammonium nitrate (AN) prills and fuel oil (FO), usually referred to as ANFO, is extensively used in the mining industry as a bulk explosive. One of the major performance predictors of ANFO mixtures is the fuel oil retention, which is itself governed by the complex pore structure of the AN prills. In this study, we present how X-ray computed tomography (XCT), and the associated advanced data processing workflow, can be used to fully characterise the structure and morphology of AN prills. We show that structural parameters such as volume fraction of the different phases and morphological parameters such as specific surface area and shape factor can be reliably extracted from the XCT data, and that there is a good agreement with the measured oil retention values. Importantly, oil retention measurements (qualifying the efficiency of ANFO as explosives) correlate well with the specific surface area determined by XCT. XCT can therefore be employed non-destructively; it can accurately evaluate and characterise porosity in ammonium nitrate prills, and even predict their efficiency. KW - ANFO KW - Explosives KW - Surface area KW - Porosity KW - XCT KW - Data processing PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-505395 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13051230 VL - 13 IS - 5 (Special Issue "Micro Non-Destructive Testing and Evaluation") SP - 1230 PB - MDPI AN - OPUS4-50539 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Léonard, Fabien A1 - Zhang, Zhen A1 - Krebs, Holger A1 - Bruno, Giovanni T1 - Morphological characterisation of explosive powders by XCT: When grain numbers count JF - The e-journal of nondestructive testing & ultrasonics N2 - Ammonium nitrate (AN) prills are commonly used as an ingredient in industrial explosives and in fertilisers. Conventional techniques (such as BET or mercury intrusion porosimetry) can measure the open porosity and specific surface area of AN prill, but the closed porosity is not obtainable. This work was focused on evaluating X-ray computed tomography (XCT) as a non-destructive technique for the assessment of porosity in AN prills. An advanced data processing workflow was developed so that the segmentation and quantification of the CT data could be performed on the entire 3D volume, yet allowing the measurements (e.g.; volume, area, shape factor…) to be extracted for each individual phase (prill, open porosity, closed porosity) of each individual prill, in order to obtain statistically relevant data. Clear morphological and structural differences were seen and quantified between fertiliser and explosive products. Overall, CT can provide a very wide range of parameters that are not accessible to other techniques, destructive or non-destructive, and thus offers new insights and complementary information. T2 - 10th Conference on Industrial Computed Tomography (iCT 2020) CY - Wels, Austria DA - 04.02.2020 KW - Ammonium nitrate KW - Prill KW - Non-destructive characterisation KW - Porosity KW - Specific surface area PY - 2020 UR - http://www.ndt.net/?id=25118 SN - 1435-4934 VL - 25 IS - 2 SP - 1 EP - 6 PB - NDT.net CY - Kirchwald AN - OPUS4-50348 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Krebs, Holger A1 - Schwarz, Silke A1 - Rennert, Jörg A1 - Knaebel, Katrin T1 - How to behave in the event of a vehicle fire with explosives N2 - Safety and hazards consideration for the transportation and processing of commercial explosives in vehicles. T2 - INF.-AG "Clarification of 9.3.4.2 ADR" CY - Bonn, Germany DA - 01.10.2018 KW - Fahrzeugbrand KW - Explosivstoffe KW - MEMU PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-47338 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Krebs, Holger A1 - Schwarz, Silke A1 - J. Rennert, T1 - Verhalten bei einem Fahrzeugbrand in Verbindung mit explosionsgefährlichen Stoffen N2 - Entstehung eines Brandes bei Transport bzw. Mischen / Laden; Unfälle und Gefährdungen; Maßnahmen T2 - Jahrestagung 2018 für Sicherheit im Bergbau CY - Villach, Austria DA - 13.06.2018 KW - Fahrzeugbrand KW - Explosivstoffe PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-46525 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -