• The Korean Journal of Rheology
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.19-27
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• 1990

레이저와 타이머장치를 설치한 낙구식 점도계에서 구와 니들이 주어진 구간을 통과 하는 시간을 측정하여 종말속도를 정확히 결정하였고 점성이 작은유체와 낮은 전단률 점성 과 영전단률 점성은 속이 빈 알루미늄 구와 니들이 이용하여 측정하였다. 알루미늄 구와 니 들의 속에 철분을 삽입하여 밀도를 다양하게 변화시켰다. 낙구식 점도계에서 측정한 낮은 전단률 점성과 영 전단률 점성 그리고 모세관점도계에서 측정한 높은전단률 점성과 무한 전 단률 점성을 이용하여 점탄성 유체의 특성이완시간을 결정하였다. 실린더 속의 시험용 유체 를 교란시키지 않고 밑면에 떨어진 구를 회수하는 장치를 설치하였다. 이 장치는 하나의 구 로써 점탄성유체의 특성확산시간을 측정하는데 대단히 효과적이었다. Polyacrylamide Separan AP-273 용액(농도 500-200 wppm)의 특성이안시간과 특성화산시간을 낙구식 점도 계와 모세관 점도계의 실험결과를 이용하여 결정하고 폴리며 용액의 퇴화 현상을 실험적으 로 분석하였다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.241-250
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• 1990

Characteristic relaxation time and characteristic diffusion time of viscoelastic fluids are determined experimentally by measuring the zero-shear-rate viscosity by falling ball viscometer and the infinite-shear-rate viscosity by capillary tube viscometer. Fluids used in experiments are aqueous solutions of polyacrylamide Separan AP-273 and the polymer concentrations range from 300 to 2000 wppm. A newly designed laser beam and timer system is employed to overcome the difficulty in measuring terminal velocities of the low concentration solutions. Ball removal device is prepared to remove the dropped ball from the bottom of cylinder without disturbing the testing fluid. In order to measure the zero-shear-rate viscosity, densities of hollow aluminium balls are adjusted very close to the densities of testing fluids. Characteristic diffusion time, which is ball viscometer. However, terminal velocity of a needle by falling ball viscometer is not affected by the time interval of dropping needles and characteristic diffusion time is not measured with a dropping needle. Powell-Eyring model predicts the highest values of the characteristic relaxation times among models used for heat transfer experimental works for a given polymer solution. As degradation of a polymer solution continues, the zero-shear-rate viscosity decreases more seriously than the infinite-shear-rate viscosity. Characteristic relaxation times of polymer solutions decreases as degradation continues.

• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.593-598
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• 2007

The present study has dealt with the measuring method of ice slurry viscosity using falling sphere viscometer. The experimental apparatus was composed by test section and high-speed video system. And the spheres used in this study were alumina and glass. The main parameters were ice packing factor (IPF) and falling velocity of sphere so the acquired results were discussed for these parameters. The viscosity of ice slurry was calculated by using measured falling velocity and moving distance at instantaneous time and the Stokes hypothesis was used for this calculation. It was clarified that possible measuring range was $IPF\;=\;0.06{\sim}0.14$ of this type of measuring device and measuring method. In addition, it was clarified that the viscosity of ice slurry increased to increase of ice packing factor (IPF) of ice slurry.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.15-19
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• 1988

The falling ball viscometer has been widely used for measuring the viscosity of the Newtonian fluids because of its simple theory and low cost. The use of the falling ball viscometer for measuring the non-Newtonian viscosity has been of interest to rheologists for some years. The analysis of the experimental results in a falling ball viscometer rest on Stokes law which yields the terminal velocity for a sphere moving through an infinite medium of fluids. An attempt to use the falling ball viscometer to measure the non-Newtonian viscosity in the intermediate shear rate ranEe was sucessfully accomplished by combining the direct experimental obserbations with a simple analytical model for the average shear-stress and shear rate at, the surface of a sphere. In the experiments with highly viscoelastic polyacrylamide solutions the terminal velocity was observed to be dependent on the time interval between the dropping of successive balls. The time-dependent phenomenon was used to determine characteristic diffusion times of the concentrated solutions of polyacrylamide.