TY - JOUR A1 - Kleiner, Florian T1 - Optimization and semi-automatic evaluation of a frosting process for a soda lime silicate glass based on phosphoric acid JF - International Journal of Applied Glass Science N2 - Chemical glass frosting processes are widely used to create visual attractive glass surfaces. A commonly used frosting bath mainly contains ammonium bifluoride (NH4HF2) mixed with hydrochloric acid (HCl). The frosting process consists of several baths. Firstly, the preliminary bath to clean the object. Secondly, the frosting bath which etches the rough light scattering structure into the glass surface. Finally, the washing baths to clean the frosted object. This is where the constituents of the preceding steps accumulate and have to be filtered from the sewage. In the present contribution, phosphoric acid (H3PO4) was used as a substitute for HCl to reduce the amount of ammonium (NH4+) and chloride (Cl−) dissolved in the waste water. In combination with magnesium carbonate (MgCO3), it allows the precipitation of ammonium within the sewage as ammonium magnesium phosphate (MgNH4PO4). However, a trivial replacement of HCl by H3PO4 within the frosting process causes extensive frosting errors, such as inhomogeneous size distributions of the structures or domains that are not fully covered by these structures. By modifying the preliminary bath composition, it was possible to improve the frosting result considerably. To determine the optimal composition of the preliminary bath, a semi-automatic evaluation method has been developed. This method renders the objective comparison of the resulting surface quality possible. KW - Silicatglas KW - Mattieren KW - Ätzen KW - automated quality control KW - etching KW - glass frosting KW - phosphoric acid Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20210701-44548 UR - https://ceramics.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ijag.15866 SP - 1 EP - 8 PB - John Wiley & Sons ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kleiner, Florian A1 - Rößler, Christiane A1 - Vogt, Franziska A1 - Osburg, Andrea A1 - Ludwig, Horst-Michael T1 - Reconstruction of calcium silicate hydrates using multiple 2D and 3D imaging techniques: Light microscopy, μ-CT, SEM, FIB-nT combined with EDX JF - Journal of Microscopy N2 - This study demonstrates the application and combination of multiple imaging techniques [light microscopy, micro-X-ray computer tomography (μ-CT), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and focussed ion beam – nano-tomography (FIB-nT)] to the analysis of the microstructure of hydrated alite across multiple scales. However, by comparing findings with mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP), it becomes obvious that the imaged 3D volumes and 2D images do not sufficiently overlap at certain scales to allow a continuous quantification of the pore size distribution (PSD). This can be overcome by improving the resolution and increasing the measured volume. Furthermore, results show that the fibrous morphology of calcium-silicate-hydrates (C-S-H) phases is preserved during FIB-nT. This is a requirement for characterisation of nano-scale porosity. Finally, it was proven that the combination of FIB-nT with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) data facilitates the phase segmentation of a 11 × 11 × 7.7 μm3 volume of hydrated alite. KW - Zementklinker KW - Bildsegmentierung KW - Rasterelektronenmikroskopie KW - Computertomographie KW - tomography KW - focussed ion beam KW - cement microstructure KW - micro-CT Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20220106-45458 UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jmi.13081 VL - 2021 SP - 1 EP - 6 PB - John Wiley & Sons Ltd CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jiang, Mingze A1 - Rößler, Christiane A1 - Wellmann, Eva A1 - Klaver, Jop A1 - Kleiner, Florian A1 - Schmatz, Joyce T1 - Workflow for high-resolution phase segmentation of cement clinker fromcombined BSE image and EDX spectral data JF - Journal of Microscopy N2 - Burning of clinker is the most influencing step of cement quality during the production process. Appropriate characterisation for quality control and decision-making is therefore the critical point to maintain a stable production but also for the development of alternative cements. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) in combination with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) delivers spatially resolved phase and chemical information for cement clinker. This data can be used to quantify phase fractions and chemical composition of identified phases. The contribution aims to provide an overview of phase fraction quantification by semi-automatic phase segmentation using high-resolution backscattered electron (BSE) images and lower-resolved EDX element maps. Therefore, a tool for image analysis was developed that uses state-of-the-art algorithms for pixel-wise image segmentation and labelling in combination with a decision tree that allows searching for specific clinker phases. Results show that this tool can be applied to segment sub-micron scale clinker phases and to get a quantification of all phase fractions. In addition, statistical evaluation of the data is implemented within the tool to reveal whether the imaged area is representative for all clinker phases. KW - Zementklinker KW - Bildsegmentierung KW - Rasterelektronenmikroskopie KW - cement clinker KW - image segmentation KW - EDX KW - superpixel Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20211215-45449 UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jmi.13072 VL - 2021 SP - 1 EP - 7 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Oxford ER -