Porosity, internal

The reflection tomograms (c) show the axial hole in the Plexiglas specimen, but also a real discontinuity in the A/5i -alloy. The internal discontinuity is located 6 mm from the edge, 50° from the axial hole and its dimension is about 1-2 mm. This may be an inclusion or a porosity (void). Multiple reflections from the measurement were ignored in the calculation of the Plexiglas tomogram (left). This is seen as a bright circle. 

A manual entitled Reporting Physisorption Data for Gas/Solid Systems with Special Reference to the Determination of Surface Area and Porosity has been prepared as a provisional publication by Commission 1.6 of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (lUPAC). The purpose of the manual is to draw attention to problems involved in reporting physisorption data and to provide guidance on the evaluation and interpretation of isotherm data. The general conclusions and recommendations are very similar to those contained in Chapter 6. 

Thus, the porosity of an aerogel is ia excess of 90% and can be as high as 99.9%. As a consequence of such a high porosity, aerogels have large internal surface area and pore volume. 

Suspension polymerization of VDE in water are batch processes in autoclaves designed to limit scale formation (91). Most systems operate from 30 to 100°C and are initiated with monomer-soluble organic free-radical initiators such as diisopropyl peroxydicarbonate (92—96), tert-huty peroxypivalate (97), or / fZ-amyl peroxypivalate (98). Usually water-soluble polymers, eg, cellulose derivatives or poly(vinyl alcohol), are used as suspending agents to reduce coalescence of polymer particles. Organic solvents that may act as a reaction accelerator or chain-transfer agent are often employed. The reactor product is a slurry of suspended polymer particles, usually spheres of 30—100 pm in diameter they are separated from the water phase thoroughly washed and dried. Size and internal stmcture of beads, ie, porosity, and dispersant residues affect how the resin performs in appHcations. 

Reactants must diffuse through the network of pores of a catalyst particle to reach the internal area, and the products must diffuse back. The optimum porosity of a catalyst particle is deterrnined by tradeoffs making the pores smaller increases the surface area and thereby increases the activity of the catalyst, but this gain is offset by the increased resistance to transport in the smaller pores increasing the pore volume to create larger pores for faster transport is compensated by a loss of physical strength. A simple quantitative development (46—48) follows for a first-order, isothermal, irreversible catalytic reaction in a spherical, porous catalyst particle. 

Polymer-based, synthetic ion-exchangers known as resins are available commercially in gel type or truly porous forms. Gel-type resins are not porous in the usual sense of the word, since their structure depends upon swelhng in the solvent in which they are immersed. Removal of the solvent usually results in a collapse of the three-dimensional structure, and no significant surface area or pore diameter can be defined by the ordinaiy techniques available for truly porous materials. In their swollen state, gel-type resins approximate a true molecular-scale solution. Thus, we can identify an internal porosity p only in terms of the equilibrium uptake of water or other liquid. When crosslinked polymers are used as the support matrix, the internal porosity so defined varies in inverse proportion to the degree of crosslinkiug, with swelhng and therefore porosity typically being more... 

Material and uses Shape"of particles Size range, U.S. standard mesh f Internal porosity, % Bulk dry density, kg/L Average pore diameter, nm Surface area, kmVkg Sorptive capacity, kg/kg (dry)... 

The skeletal density p, of a particle (or crystalline density for a pure chemical compound) is given in terms of internal porosity p by... 

Figure 13.5 Plug-type dezincification on the internal surface of a brass condenser tube. Note the extreme porosity of the copper plugs. Tube wall thickness was 0.040 in. (0.10 cm). Compare to Fig. 13.13. (Courtesy of National Association of Corrosion Engineers, Corrosion 89 Paper No. 197 by H. M. Herro.)...

Figure 14.10 shows the end profile of a sectioned stack plate with deep, irregularly shaped casting voids at the intersection of walls. Sectioning through these void zones revealed deep internal tunnel porosity (Fig. 14.11). When viewed under a low-power microscope, the contours of porous areas showed distinct solidification features (dendrites).

Normal reheat treatment can partially restore blade properties however, it does not appear to be capable of full property recovery, although the miscrostructures are comparable to new blades. This shortcoming implies that cavitation may be present and was not removed by conventional reheat treatment. Hot isostatic press (HIP) processing is an alternative that ensures void removal. It has demonstrated its ability to remove even gross internal shrinkage porosity in investment castings. The results of HIP treatment... 

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