Study of variations in soil water potential with the incorporation of charcoal and carbon nanotubes through infrared thermal images
| Autor: | Carlos Villaseñor-Mora, Arturo González-Vega, Victor H. Hernandez |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Soil salinity
Materials science 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Infrared 0211 other engineering and technologies Soil science 02 engineering and technology Carbon nanotube Soil type 01 natural sciences law.invention Water potential law visual_art Soil water Emissivity visual_art.visual_art_medium Charcoal 021101 geological & geomatics engineering 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | SPIE Proceedings. |
| ISSN: | 0277-786X |
| Popis: | Different concentrations of charcoal and carbon nanotubes were incorporated in different mix types of soil samples, these were previously chemically characterized, and physically grain standardized, then the water potential was measured by traditional procedures, which need to consider the water composition and the soil salinity to achieve an accurate measurement, and by infrared thermal images where the water potential was correlated with the superficial emissivity. It was observed that the organic incorporation increases the water potential but it depends of soil gradation, a biggest increment of the water potential was observed in a poorly graded soil than that observed in a well graded soil; the nanotubes in low concentrations do not present considerable changes in the water potential, and in high concentrations the cost is not profitable. It was analyzed the minimum concentration changes of charcoal and nanotubes in the soil that can be measured with thermal emissivity, and the deepness at which the infrared thermal images can measure, also it was studied the rate of water drain in the different soils, and the ability of follow this with thermal sequence of images. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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