Imaging for Multi-scale Multi-modal and Multi-disciplinary Analysis for EnGineering and Environmental Sustainability (IM3AGES)

工程和环境可持续性多尺度、多模式和多学科分析成像 (IM3AGES)

• 批准号: EP/Z531133/1
• 负责人: Katherine Dobson
• 金额: $ 649.44万
• 依托单位: University of Strathclyde
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FZ531133%2F1
• 关键词: Imaging; Multi; scale; modal; disciplinary

We face many engineering and physical science challenges if we are to develop sustainable and responsible ways to use our critical resources, mitigate the impacts of climate change, and meet our NetZero 2050 targets. Whether it is in raw materials, food, water, energy or infrastructure, sustainable solutions require better understanding, control and exploitation of how materials, processes and structures interact with their environments; and of how those interactions change the material properties and performance.For the EPSRC community, understanding the properties and behaviour of materials in the natural environment requires observation and quantification of mechanical, thermal, chemical and biological processes. This is made harder because sample history matters, and experiments must simulate evolution over many length scales (µm-m; from individual microbe interactions or crystal growth to sub-surface flow of CO2 or H2) and time scales (s to kyr; from growth of a single fracture to storage of radioactive waste). The best understanding comes when we work in 4D (3D +time) and integrate microstructural and compositional data from the materials, with that from the fluids, gases and biological matter they are interacting with: and repeating those measurement over the course of the experiment. X-ray computed tomography (XCT) is a powerful tool for these kinds of experiments, but it remains under exploited by those working at the materials-engineering-environment interface because of a nationwide gap in technical capability. The main objective of the Imaging for Multi-scale Multi-modal and Multi-disciplinary Analysis for EnGineering and Environmental Sustainability" Facility (IM3AGES) is to fill that gap.Developed (with input from >120 academics) to address the triple challenge of time scale, spatial scale and co-located multi-modal data acquisition during the consultation process. IM3AGES will provide the first <1min/scan tomography system where samples remain stationary during imaging (critical for imaging fluid flow, plants, complex experimental equipment) and a high resolution (<0.5 micron) tomography system that can also perform diffraction contrast imaging) and has high compositional sensitivity (critical for measuring subtle changes in complex and fine grained materials). IM3AGES then exploits this unique combination, providing a fully integrated suite of environmental cells for short and long-term quantification of processes; with cells to control sample temperature, load, pressure, humidity or saturation, flow a range of fluids, or combine these conditions. IM3AGES also enables 4D analysis of multi-phase and reactive flow in porous media across length scales combining x-ray compatible flow/rheological cells and the cm-m scale 3D particle image velocimetry system.Acting as a regional hub and complimenting existing infrastructure IM3AGES will be a national centre of excellence for in situ 3D and 4D imaging: and while our core focus is in the rapidly expanding sustainability space, the cutting-edge technical capabilities can, and will be used across many other areas of EPSRC, UKRI, and industry. We aim to support all our users from project inception to final output, maximising the impact of work performed at IM3AGES, developing new skill-sets in the community.IM3AGES will deliver key enabling technologies at the very moment they become critical to the research community. Our vision is therefore to provide an infrastructure that supports users to generate innovative and world leading research and transformative impact towards a sustainable future

如果我们要开发可持续且负责任的方式来使用我们的关键资源、减轻气候变化的影响并实现我们的 NetZero 2050 目标，无论是在原材料、食品、水、能源还是在方面，我们都将面临许多工程和物理科学挑战。基础设施、可持续解决方案需要更好地理解、控制和利用材料、过程和结构如何与其环境相互作用，以及这些相互作用如何改变材料特性和性能。对于 EPSRC 社区来说，了解自然环境中材料的特性和行为；环境需要观察和量化机械、热、化学和生物过程变得更加困难，因为样本历史很重要，并且实验必须模拟多个长度尺度的演化（μm-m；从个体微生物相互作用或晶体生长到二氧化碳或氢气的地下流动）和时间尺度（s 到 kyr；从单个裂缝的生长到放射性废物的储存）当我们在 4D（3D + 时间）中工作并将来自材料的微观结构和成分数据与来自流体的微观结构和成分数据相结合时，就会得到最好的理解。气体和X 射线计算机断层扫描 (XCT) 是此类实验的强大工具，但它仍未被材料工程领域的人员充分利用。由于全国范围内的技术能力差距，“工程和环境可持续性多尺度多模式和多学科分析成像”设施（IM3AGES）的主要目标是填补这一空白。 （来自超过 120 名学者的意见）为了解决咨询过程中时间尺度、空间尺度和同位多模式数据采集的三重挑战，IM3AGES 将提供第一个 <1 分钟/扫描断层扫描系统，其中样本在成像过程中保持静止。 （对于流体流动、植物、复杂实验设备的成像至关重要）和高分辨率（<0.5微米）断层扫描系统，也可以执行衍射对比成像）并且具有高成分灵敏度（对于测量复杂和复杂的环境中的细微变化至关重要）然后，IM3AGES 利用这种独特的组合，提供一套完全集成的环境单元，用于短期和长期的过程量化；通过单元来控制样品温度、负载、压力、湿度或饱和度、流动一系列流体或组合这些条件。 IM3AGES 还能够结合 X 射线兼容的流动/流变细胞和 cm-m 尺度 3D 粒子图像测速技术，对跨长度尺度的多孔介质中的多相和反应流进行 4D 分析。作为区域中心并补充现有基础设施，IM3AGES 将成为原位 3D 和 4D 成像的国家卓越中心：虽然我们的核心重点是快速扩展的可持续发展领域，但尖端技术能力可以而且将会可用于 EPSRC、UKRI 和行业的许多其他领域。我们的目标是从项目启动到最终产出为所有用户提供支持，最大限度地发挥 IM3AGES 工作的影响，开发新的技能组合。 Community.IM3AGES 将在关键支持技术对研究界变得至关重要的时刻提供这些技术，因此我们的愿景是提供一个基础设施，支持用户产生创新和世界领先的研究以及对可持续未来的变革性影响。