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Evaluating porosity in cordierite diesel particulate filter materials, part 1 X-ray refraction
(2013)
Bi-continuous porous ceramics for filtration applications possess a particularly complicated microstructure, with porosity and solid matter being intermingled. Mechanical, thermal, and filtration properties can only be precisely estimated if the morphology of both solid matter and porosity can be quantitatively determined. Using x-ray absorption and refraction, we quantitatively evaluate porosity and pore orientation in cordierite diesel particulate filter ceramics. Porosity values turn out to agree with mercury intrusion measurements, while pore orientation factors agree with published crystallographic texture data.
In the framework of the SARNET-2 WP5.1 the QUENCH-DEBRIS test was conducted as the 17th severe accident test using the QUENCH facility at KIT to investigate the formation and coolability of a prototypic debris bed. The test scenario was defined by pre-test calculations using the MELCOR code. This code was used also for post-test analysis. The test bundle with length of about 2 m contains the hafnium shroud tube and 12 heated peripheral rods with claddings made of hafnium. Hafnium was chosen because of its much higher melting temperature and the about one order of magnitude lower oxidation rate compared to zirconium. The claddings of the inner nine rods were made from Zry-4. They were filled with pre-fragmented zirconia pellets. The test started with an oxidation phase of 20 h at peek cladding temperature about 1800 K to reach complete oxidation of the Zry-4 claddings over a height of 500 mm. The temperatures expected from the pre-test simulation fitted well the experimentally observed evolution of the bundle conditions.
The possibly surviving inner Zry-4 claddings were destroyed by the application of an axial mechanical force resulting in material relocation and formation of a heterogeneous debris bed consisting of segmented pellets and larger cladding tube fragments at the grid spacer 2 (350 mm elevation) and in a smaller amount at grid spacer 3 (1050 mm elevation). The so destroyed bundle was quenched with 10 g/s water. The evaporation rate generally showed an increasing trend during the reflood, except at the time of water penetration through the debris bed at spacer 2 when stagnation was observed. All peripheral hafnium claddings survived the whole test. During the oxidation phase about 100 g hydrogen was released. The time dependence of the hydrogen release predicted in the pre-test calculations fits well the measured one. The post-test examinations comprise videoscope inspections, high energy X-ray-tomography and metallographic investigations of the debris bed.
Complementary to Part 1 of this work, the bi-continuous microstructure of porous synthetic cordierite ceramics for filtration applications was investigated using 3D x-ray computed tomography at different resolutions. Applying both Fast Fourier Transform and a newly developed image analysis algorithm, we quantitatively evaluated porosity and pore orientation. The statistical approach allows extraction of spatially resolved or average values. Porosity values based on x-ray absorption agree with mercury intrusion measurements, while pore orientation factors agree with x-ray refraction data (Part 1 of this work), and with published crystallographic texture data.
Sollten CT Aufnahmen quantitativ und automatisch ausgewertet werden, ist die Qualität der Tomogramme ein wesentlicher Punkt. Außerdem steht bei Serienmessungen nur eine begrenzte Meßzeit für jede Probe. Es werden die verschiedenen Mikrofokusröhren in Bezug auf die Parameter Orts- und Dichteauflösung, sowie Meßzeit verglichen, CT Beispiele dazu gezeigt.
The combination of tomographic, microstructural data with other experimental techniques and with modeling is paramount, if we want to extract the maximum amount of information on material and component properties. In particular, quantitative image analysis, statistical approaches, direct discretization of tomographic reconstructions represent concrete possibilities to extend the power of the tomographic 3D representation to insights into the material and component performance. This logic thread holds equally for industrial and academic research, and valorizes expensive experiments such as those carried out at synchrotron sources, which cannot be daily repeated. We shall show a few examples of possible use of X-ray tomographic data for quantitative assessment of damage evolution and microstructural properties, as well as for non-destructive testing. We will also show how X-ray refraction computed tomography (CT) can be highly complementary to classic absorption CT, being sensitive to internal interfaces.
Bikontinuierliche poröse Keramiken für Filteranwendungen weisen eine komplizierte Mikrostruktur auf, in der Poren und Festkörperphase 'vermischt' sind. Mechanische, thermische sowie Filtereigenschaften können nur präzise bestimmt werden, wenn die Morphologie beider Phasen quantitativ angegeben werden kann. Hier werden unter Anwendung von 3D Computertomographie (CT) und verschiedenen Techniken, die auf der Röntgenrefraktion basieren, die Porosität und die Porenorientierung in keramischen Cordierit-Dieselpartikelfiltern bewertet. Dabei werden zur Auswertung der Tomogramme die Fouriertransformierten sowie eine neu entwickelte richtungssensitive Bildanalyse (DIVA, directional interface variance analysis) angewandt. Sowohl die genannten Messtechniken als auch der statistische Ansatz gestatten die Extraktion optional ortsaufgelöster oder gemittelter Werte. Es ergeben sich sehr gute Übereinstimmungen der experimentell ermittelten Porositätswerte mit Ergebnissen aus Quecksilberintrusionsversuchen als auch der ermittelten Porenorientierung im Vergleich zu publizierten Angaben zur kristallographischen Textur. Dies legt den Schluss nahe, dass die Kenntnis der Grenzflächen (zwischen Poren und Materie) genügt, die morphologischen Eigenschaften solcher Materialien hinreichend zu beschreiben.
Bi-continuous porous ceramics for filtration applications possess a particularly complicated microstructure, whereby porosity and solid matter are intermingled. Mechanical, thermal, and filtration properties can only be precisely estimated if the morphology of both solid matter and porosity can be quantitatively determined. Using 3D computed tomography (CT) at different resolutions, and several X-ray refraction-based techniques, we quantitatively evaluated porosity and pore orientation in cordierite diesel particulate filter ceramics.Moreover, applying both Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and a newly developed image analysis algorithm (directional interface variance analysis, DIVA), we quantitatively evaluated porosity and pore orientation. Both the experimental techniques and the statistical approach allow extraction of spatially resolved or average values.Porosity values from synchrotron computed tomography used turn out to agree with mercury intrusion measurements, while pore orientation factors agree with published crystallographic texture data. This latter point also implies that the study of the pore/matter interface is sufficient to describe the morphological properties of these materials.