fully saturated and dewatered filter cakes at different resolutions

Abstract

Appendix to Publications A to E with investigations of different particle systems (material, size and shape variation). X-ray tomography image of fully and partially dewatered filter cakes. The initial slurries contains mica, dolomite, quartz, limestone or glass particles suspended in a potassium iodide-glycerol brine. The different shaped particles were separated by cake-forming filtration followed by dewatering. All filtration and dewatering experiments took place in an in situ apparatus within the Zeiss Xradia 510 X-ray microscope. The filter cake is dewatered until the minimum degree of saturation is reached within the pore space. A scan is taken at the equilibrium state before and after dewatering. A small section in the center of the desaturated filter cakes was additionally measured at a significantly smaller field of view and higher resolution in order to be able to determine the local contact angle in addition to the saturation distribution and the size of the individual liquid bridges.