One-pot neutron imaging of surface phenomena, swelling and diffusion during methane absorption in ethanol and n-decane under high pressure.

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Ondřej Vopička, Petr Číhal, Martina Klepić, Jan Crha, Vladimír Hynek, Karel Trtík, Pierre Boillat, Pavel Trtik
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Laplace; Methane hydrate
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238470; https://doaj.org/article/134c96785cff41d5b5afd77d74591d31

We report a powerful method for capturing the time-resolved concentration profiles, liquid swelling and surface phenomena during the absorption of methane (CH4) in still liquid ethanol (C2D6O) and n-decane (n-C10D22) and at high spatial resolution (pixel size 21.07 μm) using neutron imaging. Absorpt...