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Image Analysis: A Useful Tool for Porous Media Characterization
Author(s) -
Montillet A.,
Le Coq L.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
chemical engineering and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1521-4125
pISSN - 0930-7516
DOI - 10.1002/ceat.200310020
Subject(s) - characterization (materials science) , porous medium , porosity , field (mathematics) , image (mathematics) , prime (order theory) , computer science , process engineering , materials science , engineering , nanotechnology , artificial intelligence , mathematics , geotechnical engineering , combinatorics , pure mathematics
Porous media are frequently encountered in chemical engineering processes. A prime requirement for an optimized design of these processes is a careful characterization of the porous medium structure. Among the few experimental techniques that can be used to this end, image analysis of consolidated samples proves to be an efficient but seldom used tool. It is currently applied in the fields of geology and materials science. The aim of this paper is to enlighten different examples of diagnostic applications of image analysis in the field of chemical engineering.