Pore-scale physics of ice melting within unconsolidated porous media revealed by non-destructive magnetic resonance characterization

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Melting of ice in porous media widely exists in energy and environment applications as well as extraterrestrial water resource utilization. In order to characterize the ice-water phase transition within complicated opaque porous media, we employ the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and imaging (MRI) approaches. Transient distributions of transverse relaxation time T2 from NMR enable us to reveal the substantial role of inherent throat and pore confinements in ice melting among porous media. More importantly, the increase in minimum T2 provides new findings on how the confinement between ice crystal and particle surface evolves inside the pore. For porous media with negligible gravity effect, both the changes in NMR-determined melting rate and our theoretical analysis of melting front confirm that conduction is the dominant heat transfer mode. The evolution of mushy melting front and 3D spatial distribution of water content are directly visualized by a stack of temporal cross-section images from MRI, in consistency with the corresponding NMR results. For heterogeneous porous media like lunar regolith simulant, the T2 distribution shows two distinct pore size distributions with different pore-scale melting dynamics, and its maximum T2 keeps increasing till the end of melting process instead of reaching steady in homogeneous porous media.

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2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:14

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Scientific reports - 14(2024), 1 vom: 07. März, Seite 5635

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Englisch

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Haile, Natnael [VerfasserIn]
Sajjad, Muhammad [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Yadong [VerfasserIn]
AlAmoodi, Nahla [VerfasserIn]
AlMarzooqi, Faisal [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, TieJun [VerfasserIn]

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Date Revised 11.03.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1038/s41598-024-56294-w

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NLM369437411