Evaluating Porosity in Cordierite Diesel Particulate Filter Materials: Advanced X-Ray Techniques and New Statistical Analysis Methods

Abstract:

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.

• Periodical: Advances in Science and Technology (Volume 91)
• Pages: 64-69
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AST.91.64
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: Andreas Kupsch, Axel Lange, Manfred P. Hentschel, Yener Onel, Thomas Wolk, Andreas Staude, Karsten Ehrig, Bernd R. Müller, Giovanni Bruno
• Keywords: Diesel Particulate Filters, DIVA Algorithm, Pore Orientation, Porous Ceramics, X-Ray Computed Tomography, X-Ray Refraction

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