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Class Highlights:
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Who Should Attend?
Technicians, analysts, lab managers, researchers, and anyone needing to operate and/or interpret and understand AutoPore results should attend this 3-day course. The course will utilize the latest AutoPore model, but most course material is also applicable to users of previous models (i.e. – AutoPore 9400). The course is extremely beneficial to the entry-level operator as well as moderately experienced users wishing to expand their capability. Prior hands-on experience with the instrument is helpful, but not required.
Curriculum
- The AutoPore components and how they operate
- Sample preparation, including sample quantity, sample loading, and penetrometer selection
- Hands-on analyses, including various scanning and equilibration modes
- An overview of the mercury intrusion theory
- Utilization of all AutoPore software features and the programming of sample files to efficiently obtain accurate and reproducible data
- The customization and editing of all available reports and graphs, including reference and specification reports, plot overlays, data exporting, and SPC reports
- Data reduction, including error correction, and pore size and volume distributions
- Operator Maintenance – meet with a member of our Service Department to discuss troubleshooting and user-maintenance
Typical Class Schedule
Day 1
- Session 1: Lab – System and software overview / penetrometer assembly / Blank error and correction / penetrometer calibration
- Session 2: Lecture – Mercury Intrusion Theory and the AutoPore Operation
- Lunch
- Session 3: Lab – Setting up Penetrometer Properties files / Critical factors of sample preparation
- Session 4: Lab – Preparation and analysis of silica alumina using formula correction
Day 2
- Session 1: Lab – Preparation and analysis of silica alumina using Pressure Scanning mode
- Session 2: Lab – The programming and use of parameter files / A review of the Options Menu
- Session 3: Lab – Preparation and analysis of silica alumina using equilibration by Rate of Intrusion
- Lunch
- Session 4: Factory Tour
- Session 5: Lab – Preparation and analysis of silica alumina using an Intrusion Controlled Scan
- Session 6: Lab – Penetrometer cleaning
Day 3
- Session 1: Lab – Practical Exercise – Analysis of an "unknown" sample
- Session 2: Lecture – A Review of Report Options, Data Reduction, and Class-Generated Results
- Lunch
- Session 3: Lab – Data Reduction and exporting / SPC Reports
- Session 4: Service – A discussion of installation, calibration, and operator maintenance
Background
The Micromeritics AutoPore characterizes a material’s porosity by applying various levels of pressure to a sample immersed in mercury. The pressure required to intrude mercury into sample pores is inversely proportional to the size of the pores. This is called mercury porosimetry, or often, "mercury intrusion." The AutoPore uses mercury intrusion to determine important physical characteristics of powders and solids, such as pore size distribution, total pore volume, percent porosity, total pore surface area, median pore diameter, sample densities (bulk and skeletal), fluid conductivity, and mechanical properties. The instrument is capable of measuring pore diameters from 0.003 to ~1000 µm.
Course Instructors: Jeff Kenvin, Simon Yunes & Mark Stephens
email: mark.stephens@micromeritics.com
phone: 770-662-3607 |