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RH 8: Instrumentation

RH 8: Instrumentation
     Part 1 Laboratory viscometers: Review of rotational instruments
     Part 2 Laboratory viscometers: Review of tube instruments
     Part 3: Laboratory viscometers: Calibration
         1. Introduction
         2. Speed Calibration
         3. Torque calibration
             3.1 Controlled Rate Instruments
                 3.1.1 Pulley and Weight Method
             3.2 Controlled torque instruments
                 3.2.1 Pulley and weight method
             3.3 Calibration with standard fluids
         4. Standard fluids
             4.1 Traceability
             4.2 Role of viscosity standards in engineering rheology
         5. Suppliers of viscosity standards
             5.1 Primary Suppliers
                 5.1.1 Cannon Instrument Company
                 5.1.2 National Measurement Laboratory, CSIRO
                 5.1.3 National Metrology Institute of Japan
                 5.1.4 Paragon Scientific Ltd
                 5.1.5 Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt
                 5.1.6 Poulten Selfe & Lee Ltd
             5.2 Secondary Suppliers
                 5.2.1 Brookfield Engineering Laboratories Inc
                 5.2.2 Infra Scientific Ltd
                 5.2.3 The Paint Research Association
                 5.2.4 Quality Control Laboratory
                 5.2.5 Ravenfield Designs Ltd
                 5.2.6 Research Equipment (London) Limited
                 5.2.7 Sheen Instruments
                 5.2.8 Stanhope-Seta
                 5.2.9 Thermo Electron Corporation
         6. Nomenclature
         7. References
     Part 4: Laboratory viscometers: Selection
         1. Introduction
         2. Material Considerations
             2.1 Liquids
             2.2 Non-settling suspensions
                 2.2.1 Suspensions containing abrasive material
                 2.2.2 Suspensions containing large particles
                 2.2.3 High solids content suspensions
                 2.2.4 Fibrous suspensions
                 2.2.5 Corrosive Suspensions
                 2.2.6 Volatile Suspensions
                 2.2.7 Thixotropic suspensions
             2.3 Polymeric systems
             2.4 Emulsions
         3. Equipment considerations
             3.1 Shear rate / Shear stress range
             3.2 Temperature Control
             3.3 "Practical" aspects
                 3.3.1 Cleaning
                 3.3.2 Setting up
                 3.3.3 Portability
                 3.3.4 Automation
         4. Viscometer and sample interactions
             4.1 Particle jamming
             4.2 Wall slip
         5. Viscometer selection
         6. Concluding Remarks
         7. Nomenclature
         8. References
         9. Appendix Metzner-Otto Method for Slowly-Settling Suspensions
             9.1 Description
             9.2 Procedure
                 9.2.1 Estimation of Calibration Constant, KL
                 9.2.2 Estimation of Calibration Constant, ks
                 9.2.3 Measurement of the suspension flow curve