A Furnace for Imaging of Charring in Materials under High Temperature

Kurzfassung

This paper presents a new in-situ material diagnosis instrument based on a furnace setup inside an X-ray tomograph. This allows the direct observation of the material decomposition. Data of a representative cork sample are presented here. The paper describes sample and furnace setup and gives direct images of the degradation in exemplary cork samples. The data are correlated to temperature data within the samples and the results include assessment of pyrolysis Progress inside the sample and deduction of pyrolysis temperature.