1. Environmental cell for in situ X-ray synchrotron micro-CT imaging with simultaneous acoustic measurements
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Arkady N. Drobchik, Viktor V. Nikitin, Mikhail I. Fokin, Geser A. Dugarov, Pavel D. Shevchenko, Alex L. Deriy, Andrey Yu. Manakov, Konstantin E. Kuper, and Anton A. Duchkov
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micro-tomography ,environmental cell ,acoustics ,gas hydrates ,Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity ,QC770-798 ,Crystallography ,QD901-999 - Abstract
Synchrotron radiation provides the necessary spatial and temporal resolution for non-invasive operando studies of dynamic processes under complex environmental conditions. Here a new environmental cell for simultaneous in situ dynamic X-ray imaging and measuring acoustic properties of geological samples is presented. The primary purpose of this cell is to study gas-hydrate formation in porous geo-materials and its influence on their acoustic properties. The cell is designed for cylindrical samples of 9 mm in diameter, confining and pore pressures up to 12 MPa, and temperatures from −20°C to room temperature. The cell is portable and can be easily assembled and operated at different X-ray sources. This cell enables a wide range of experiments studying physical/chemical processes in the Earth subsurface that change the mechanical properties of rocks (geochemical reactions, phase transitions, etc.).
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- 2022
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