Measuring liquid penetration in the thickness direction of paper
- 25 October 2005
- journal article
- Published by EDP Sciences in The European Physical Journal Applied Physics
- Vol. 32 (1), 65-71
- https://doi.org/10.1051/epjap:2005071
Abstract
We introduce a method to measure liquid absorption into paper based on measuring white light reflected from it. The method was used with 49.8–51.7 g/m2 pilot papers, whose hydrophobicity was tuned by their fiber content and furnish. In addition, one of the samples was internally sized. Impact wetting was used where a droplet of mineral oil, isopropanol or deionized water was applied to the paper surface opposite to the one facing the monitor. The volume of liquid per droplet was (0.9±0.2) μl to (1.3±0.1) μl. The sample was illuminated with an ordinary 20 W light bulb from above. The light intensity reflected off the sample was recorded with a fast charge-coupled camera during the liquid penetration. Optical changes in the paper sample were studied by calculating the average intensity of the reflected light from a selected area. The results showed that the speed of pore wetting, mainly in the z-direction, could be measured with each liquid-sample combination. Hence a digital camera based light reflection measurement can provide information about thickness direction liquid transport in paper.Keywords
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