Morphological characterisation of explosive powders by XCT: When grain numbers count
- 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 notAmmonium 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.…
Autor*innen: | Fabien LéonardORCiD, Zhen Zhang, Holger Krebs, Giovanni BrunoORCiD |
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Dokumenttyp: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
Veröffentlichungsform: | Graue Literatur |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Englisch): | The e-journal of nondestructive testing & ultrasonics |
Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung: | 2020 |
Organisationseinheit der BAM: | 2 Prozess- und Anlagensicherheit |
2 Prozess- und Anlagensicherheit / 2.5 Konformitätsbewertung Explosivstoffe/Pyrotechnik | |
8 Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung | |
8 Zerstörungsfreie Prüfung / 8.5 Röntgenbildgebung | |
Verlag: | NDT.net |
Verlagsort: | Kirchwald |
Jahrgang/Band: | 25 |
Ausgabe/Heft: | 2 |
Aufsatznummer: | 25118 |
Erste Seite: | 1 |
Letzte Seite: | 6 |
DDC-Klassifikation: | Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / Chemie / Analytische Chemie |
Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / Ingenieurwissenschaften / Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten | |
Freie Schlagwörter: | Ammonium nitrate; Non-destructive characterisation; Porosity; Prill; Specific surface area |
Themenfelder/Aktivitätsfelder der BAM: | Chemie und Prozesstechnik |
Material | |
Veranstaltung: | 10th Conference on Industrial Computed Tomography (iCT 2020) |
Veranstaltungsort: | Wels, Austria |
Beginndatum der Veranstaltung: | 04.02.2020 |
Enddatum der Veranstaltung: | 07.02.2020 |
URL: | http://www.ndt.net/?id=25118 |
ISSN: | 1435-4934 |
Verfügbarkeit des Dokuments: | Datei im Netzwerk der BAM verfügbar ("Closed Access") |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 13.02.2020 |
Referierte Publikation: | Nein |