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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017
Filed:
May. 02, 2011
Alan R. Greenberg, Boulder, CO (US);
William B. Krantz, Boulder, CO (US);
Elmira Kujundzic, Erie, CO (US);
Adrian Yeo, Singapore, SG;
Seyed Saeid Hosseini, Singapore, SG;
Alan R. Greenberg, Boulder, CO (US);
William B. Krantz, Boulder, CO (US);
Elmira Kujundzic, Erie, CO (US);
Adrian Yeo, Singapore, SG;
Seyed Saeid Hosseini, Singapore, SG;
National University of Singapore, Singapore, SG;
The Regents of the University of Colorado, A Body Corporate, Denver, CO (US);
Abstract
A method for determination of pore-size distribution in a porous material called evapo porometry (EP) is capable of determining pore sizes from approximately the nanometer scale up to the micron scale. EP determines the pore size based on the evaporative mass loss at constant temperature from porous materials that have been pre-saturated with either a wetting or non-wetting volatile liquid. The saturated porous material is placed in an appropriate test cell on a conventional microbalance to measure liquid mass loss at a constant temperature as a function of time. The mass-loss rate is then related to the pore-size distribution. The microbalance permits measuring the mass as a function of time. The slope of the mass versus time curve is the evaporation rate. The evaporation rate is related to the vapor pressure at the interface between the liquid in the porous material and the ambient gas phase. The vapor pressure in turn is related to the pore diameter.