Theoretical Analysis of the Gravity Driven Capillary Viscometers
Gravity-driven capillary viscometers (GDCVs) are used to obtain the viscosity function of non-Newtonian fluids from measurements of the instantaneous fluid height in the overhead reservoir. The reliability of this viscometry depends on two main aspects: the accomplishment of the required flow condit...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2004 |
| País: | Argentina |
| Institución: | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| Repositorio: | CONICET Digital (CONICET) |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/27277 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/11336/27277 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | GRAVITY-DRIVEN CAPILLARY VISCOMETERS NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS https://purl.org/becyt/ford/2.4 https://purl.org/becyt/ford/2 |
| Sumario: | Gravity-driven capillary viscometers (GDCVs) are used to obtain the viscosity function of non-Newtonian fluids from measurements of the instantaneous fluid height in the overhead reservoir. The reliability of this viscometry depends on two main aspects: the accomplishment of the required flow condition in the apparatus and the appropriate conversion of raw data into rheometric functions. This work presents a rigorous theoretical analysis of the GDCV, thus providing criteria to achieve accurate measurements. The equations describing the rheometric flow in a GDCV are deduced from the basic laws of momentum and mass conservation. From these equations, the flow dynamics of the apparatus is studied and the constraints required to attain a quasi-steady-state flow are established. Under these conditions, the rheometric functions are written in terms of the instantaneous fluid height. In addition, a method to process experimental data of non-Newtonian fluids is proposed, which can handle the ill-posed problem associated with the determination of the viscosity function in this viscometry. |
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