Structural Characterisation of Natural and Industrial Porous Materials: A Manual

Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1 Aims of this book

1.2 Porous materials

1.3 Characterisation science

1.4 What is a pore?

1.5 Void space descriptors

1.6 Structure     

Chapter 2: Gas sorption

2.1 Basic theory

2.2 Nature of experiment

2.3 What can I find out with this method?

2.4 Conclusions

Chapter 3: Mercury porosimetry

3.1 Basic theory

3.2 Nature of experiment

3.3 What can I find out with this method?

3.4 Conclusions

Chapter 4: Thermoporometry and Scattering

4.1 Thermoporometry

4.2 Scattering

4.3 Conclusions

Chapter 5: NMR and microscopy methods

5.1 Theory of NMR and imaging techniques

5.2 Nature of experiments

5.3 What can I find out with these methods?

Chapter 6: Hybrid methods

6.1 Background

6.2 Utilisation of network effects in pore characterisation

6.3 Combined mercury porosimetry and thermoporometry

6.4 Integrated gas sorption and mercury porosimetry

6.5 Combined MRI and gas sorption

6.6 Combined CXT and gas adsorption

6.7 Integrated NMR cryodiffusometry and relaxometry, combined with gas sorption

6.8 Combined CXT and liquid metal intrusion

6.9 Serial gas sorption with different adsorptives6.10 Scattering methods and mercury porosimetry



6.11 Combined CXT, MRI and mercury porosimetry

6.12 Conclusions

Chapter 7: Structural characterisation in absorbent and catalyst design

7.1 Special considerations for industrial materials

7.2 Relating pore structure to raw material properties and fabrication method

7.3 Relating mass transport to pore structure

7.4 Understanding product activity and selectivity

7.5 Conclusions

Chapter 8: Structural characterisation in engineering geology

8.1 Special considerations for natural porous systems

8.2 Predicting permeability, reservoir producibility and bound volume index

8.3 Characterising multi-scale, hierarchical porous structures

8.4 Conclusions

Dr. Sean Patrick Rigby completed his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge. He then worked as a Product Research Manager and Process Engineer for ICI Synetix (formerly Katalco) for four years, where he developed new adsorbents and managed the Catalyst Characterisation laboratory. Dr Rigby then moved to the University of Bath, UK, where he worked as an academic for ten years, before moving to the University of Nottingham, where he is currently Professor of Chemical Engineering and Director of the GeoEnergy Research Centre. Dr. Rigby is a Fellow of the IChemE and Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Geological Society, and Fellow of IUPAC.