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Francesco Baldi, Dino Ferri, Romano Lapasin, Alessandra Semenzato
XIII Italian Conference on Rheology 2014
Appl. Rheol. 24:6 (2014) 49-50
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Baldi F, Ferri D, Lapasin R, Semenzato A: XIII Italian Conference on Rheology 2014, Appl. Rheol. 24 (2014) 49.
Vijay Dhir
International Conference on Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow (HTTF 2014)
Appl. Rheol. 24:6 (2014) 48-48
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Dhir V: International Conference on Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow (HTTF 2014), Appl. Rheol. 24 (2014) 48.
Z. Kokuti, K. van Gruijthuijsen, M. Jenei, G. Toth-Molnar, A. Czirjak, J. Kokavecz, P. Ailer, L. Palkovics, A. C. Volker, G. Szabo
High-frequency rheology of a high viscosity silicone oil using diffusing wave spectroscopy
Appl. Rheol. 24:6 (2014) 63984 (7 pages)
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Measurements and modeling of rheological properties of a high viscosity silicone oil (polydimethylsiloxane, PDMS) at high
frequency are reported. The linear viscoelastic properties are measured by small amplitude oscillation shear (SAOS) tests with
a rotational rheometer. Furthermore, Diffusing Wave Spectroscopy (DWS) is used, which expands the angular frequency
range of the measured loss and storage moduli up to 105 rad/s, in a temperature range of 20 - 70 C. Good agreement between
both methods is found in the overlapping frequency region, especially at higher temperatures. The DWS data show that the
elastic modulus stays dominant and increases with frequency, without a second cross-over point up till 108 rad/s. Flow curves,
measured with rotational and with capillary rheometry up to a shear rate of 7.6 × 104 s-1,
show shear thinning behavior, which
implies nonlinear viscoelasticity. Comparison of the dynamic and complex viscosity shows that the Cox-Merz rule is valid in
a frequency range spanning six orders of magnitude. A multi-element White-Metzner model is proposed as a constitutive
equation, which accurately describes the nonlinear viscoelastic properties, including the decrease of the loss and storage
moduli during amplitude sweeps in oscillatory shear measurements.
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Kokuti Z, vanGruijthuijsen K, Jenei M, Toth-Molnar G, Czirjak A, Kokavecz J, Ailer P, Palkovics L, Volker AC, Szabo G: High-frequency rheology of a high viscosity silicone oil using diffusing wave spectroscopy, Appl. Rheol. 24 (2014) 63984.
Monika Sellerberg, Diego Di Bartolo, Julia Oberrecht, Jörg Tiller, Peter Walzel
Viscometric measurement of protease activities on gelatine substrate
Appl. Rheol. 24:6 (2014) 62660 (10 pages)
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The knowledge of enzymatic activity is necessary in many industrial processes. The common measurement techniques are
time-consuming and therefore cost-intensive. Measurements of viscosities are a promising approach as a fast and cheap
testing method. The major challenges are to find a suitable substrate with Newtonian flow behavior throughout the whole
testing range as well as a correlation between viscosity of the solution and the decomposed mass. Water based gelatinebuffer-
system as substrate is tested extensively regarding the dependence on different solvents, pH-values and gelatine
batches. All viscosity measurements are performed with a rotational viscometer. It is shown that the gelatine-buffer-system
is independent of the given parameters and found to fulfill the said requirements. A correlation model based on the Martin
equation and necessary assumptions are presented. The required parameters intrinsic viscosity and Martin parameter can be
derived by few measurements with little effort. The digesting enzyme Trypsin is used as model enzyme in the degradation
experiments. The enzyme concentration is varied and the decrease of the viscosity is measured. A dependency between the
enzyme concentration and the enzymatic activity or respectively the viscosity decrease is observed.
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Sellerberg M, DiBartolo D, Oberrecht J, Tiller J, Walzel P: Viscometric measurement of protease activities on gelatine substrate, Appl. Rheol. 24 (2014) 62660.
Cesare Oliviero Rossi, Fitim Destani, Alfredo Cassano
Rheological behavior of blood orange juice concentrated by osmotic distillation and thermal evaporation
Appl. Rheol. 24:6 (2014) 63776 (6 pages)
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Fruit juices concentrated by osmotic distillation are characterized by higher organoleptic and sensorial properties than those
of juices concentrated by thermal evaporation as confirmed by several research studies. On the other hand, no literature is
readily available about the rheological characterization of juices concentrated by osmotic distillation. This work aimed at
investigate the rheological behavior of the concentrated blood orange juice prepared from the clarified juice by using thermal
evaporation and osmotic distillation processes as a function of solids concentration in the range 115 - 614 g/kg of total
soluble solids (TSS) within a range of 20 - 70 C. The effect of the temperature and concentration on the juice viscosity was
studied. Arrhenius-type correlation equations for viscosity were used to represent the temperature dependence of viscosity.
Values of the Arrhenius equation parameters (flow activation energy) were calculated for the measured viscosities of juices
as a function of concentration. Results indicated no significant differences in the rheological behavior for orange juices concentrated
with both methods. The juices exhibited a Newtonian behavior regardless of the concentration method.
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OlivieroRossi C, Destani F, Cassano A: Rheological behavior of blood orange juice concentrated by osmotic distillation and thermal evaporation, Appl. Rheol. 24 (2014) 63776.
Carl McIntyre, Aricson Pereira
Electrorheology of nanodiamond/PDMS nanofluids in steady and oscillatory shear
Appl. Rheol. 24:6 (2014) 63471 (9 pages)
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The rheological properties of diamond (< 10 nm) in silicone oil (PDMS) were analyzed using steady shear and oscillatory shear
measurements. Unlike micron sized diamond suspensions these suspensions were non Newtonian and showed strong viscoelastic
behavior without the electric field applied. Furthermore these nanodiamond mixtures showed sigmoidal behavior
for their apparent viscosity as the shear rate is increased without the electric field applied. When the electric field was applied
the apparent viscosity of the mixtures increased by an order of magnitude at lower shear rates. The effects of electric field
and concentration on diamond rheology are both examined. The rate of shear thinning for the mixtures is high when the
applied electric field is high. At high shear rates for the mixture the electric field does not have much effect. The flow curve
was described by the Herschel-Bulkley model. Yield stress values obtained from the model gives an important relationship
between yield stress, electric field and concentration, that is τ ∝ En and where 0.8 < n < 1.3.
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McIntyre C, Pereira A: Electrorheology of nanodiamond/PDMS nanofluids in steady and oscillatory shear, Appl. Rheol. 24 (2014) 63471.
Haider Dakhil, Andreas Wierschem
Measuring low viscosities and high shear rates with a rotational rheometer in a thin-gap parallel-disk configuration
Appl. Rheol. 24:6 (2014) 63795 (6 pages)
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We modify a commercial rheometer so that the disks are aligned perpendicular to the axis of rotation with a precision in parallelism
of about 1 μm independent of the rheometer reading. This leads to decrease the zero-gap error by a factor of 25 and
more. It enables samples to be studied at gap widths well below the absolute error of commercial rheometers. At gap widths
of 20 μm, the modification allows the measurement range to be extended to shear rates up to 105 s-1 enabling to measure
low viscosities such as that of solvents or water and of dilute polymer solutions. The measurements are restricted mainly by
the torque resolution at low shear rates and by inertia at high shear rates.
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Dakhil H, Wierschem A: Measuring low viscosities and high shear rates with a rotational rheometer in a thin-gap parallel-disk configuration, Appl. Rheol. 24 (2014) 63795.
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