Jones, Matthew P;
Storm, Malte;
York, Andrew PE;
Hyde, Timothy I;
Hatton, Gareth D;
Greenaway, Alex G;
Haigh, Sarah J;
(2020)
4D In-Situ Microscopy of Aerosol Filtration in a Wall Flow Filter.
Materials
, 13
(24)
, Article 5676. 10.3390/ma13245676.
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Abstract
The transient nature of the internal pore structure of particulate wall flow filters, caused by the continuous deposition of particulate matter, makes studying their flow and filtration characteristics challenging. In this article we present a new methodology and first experimental demonstration of time resolved in-situ synchrotron micro X-ray computed tomography (micro-CT) to study aerosol filtration. We directly imaged in 4D (3D plus time) pore scale deposits of TiO2 nanoparticles (nominal mean primary diameter of 25 nm) with a pixel resolution of 1.6 μm. We obtained 3D tomograms at a rate of ∼1 per minute. The combined spatial and temporal resolution allows us to observe pore blocking and filling phenomena as they occur in the filter’s pore space. We quantified the reduction in filter porosity over time, from an initial porosity of 0.60 to a final porosity of 0.56 after 20 min. Furthermore, the penetration depth of particulate deposits and filtration rate was quantified. This novel image-based method offers valuable and statistically relevant insights into how the pore structure and function evolves during particulate filtration. Our data set will allow validation of simulations of automotive wall flow filters. Evolutions of this experimental design have potential for the study of a wide range of dry aerosol filters and could be directly applied to catalysed automotive wall flow filters.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | 4D In-Situ Microscopy of Aerosol Filtration in a Wall Flow Filter |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3390/ma13245676 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13245676 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | X-ray micro-CT; synchrotron imaging; novel methods; in-situ; aerosol; filtration; porous media; particulate filter; particulate matter |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Chemical Engineering |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10173546 |
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