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Practical Methods for Measuring the Tortuosity of Porous Materials from Binary or Gray-Tone Tomographic Reconstructions
Gommes, Cédric; Bons, Anton-Jan; Blacher, Silvia et al.
2009In AIChE Journal, 55 (8), p. 2000-2012
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Keywords :
Porous Materials; Tortuosity; Tomography
Abstract :
[en] Two practical methods are proposed to measure the tortuosity of a porous or permeable material from its tomographic reconstruction. The first method is based on the direct measurement of the shortest distance between two points in the pores, and the second is based on the geodesic reconstruction of the pore or permeation space. Unlike the first method, the second can be directly applied to gray-tone tomograms, without the need of a segmentation step. The methods are illustrated with an electron tomogram of clay/plastic nanocomposite, an X-ray microtomogram of sandstone, and a series of model morphologies consisting of penetrable random spheres. For the latter series, the measured tortuosities compare very well with those derived independently from the theoretical effective diffusion coefficients
Research center :
Departement de Chimie Appliquée
Disciplines :
Computer science
Chemical engineering
Author, co-author :
Gommes, Cédric  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de chimie appliquée > Génie chimique - Génie catalytique
Bons, Anton-Jan;  ExxonMObilChemical Europe
Blacher, Silvia ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cliniques > Labo de biologie des tumeurs et du développement
Dunsmuir, John;  ExxonMobil Research and Engineering
Tsou, Andy;  ExxonMobil Research and Engineering
Language :
English
Title :
Practical Methods for Measuring the Tortuosity of Porous Materials from Binary or Gray-Tone Tomographic Reconstructions
Publication date :
August 2009
Journal title :
AIChE Journal
ISSN :
0001-1541
eISSN :
1547-5905
Publisher :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, United States - New Jersey
Volume :
55
Issue :
8
Pages :
2000-2012
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Funders :
F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique [BE]
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