Rheology of Concentrated Polymer Solution

Rheology of concentrated biomass

Economic processing of lignocellulosic biomass requires handling the biomass at high solids concentration. This creates challenges because concentrated biomass behaves as a Bingham-like material with large yield stresses. Here we employ torque rheometry to measure the rheological properties of concentrated lignocellulosic biomass (corn stover). Yield stresses obtained using torque rheometry agr...

Rheology of Concentrated Dispersions

In t h i s paper we b r i e f l y p resen t t h e main re levan t physical q u a n t i t i e s i n t h e rheology of concentrated d i spers ions . Main l i n e s o f t h r e e t o p i c s ( s h e a r v i scos i ty , sedimentation ve loc i ty and aggregation processes) a r e then given. The importance o r ordered or random s t r u c t u r e s is emphasized. Nature and i n d u s t i a l processes...

The rheology of polymer solution elastic strands in extensional flow

Polymer Rheology

This chapter concerns the flow behaviour of polymeric liquids. This is a short introduction to the variety of behaviour observed in these complex fluids. It is addressed at the level of a graduate student, who has had exposure to basic fluid mechanics. The contents provide only a broad overview and some simple physical explanations to explain the phenomena. For detailed study and applications t...

Rheology of concentrated carbon nanotube suspensions.

The rheological properties of non-Brownian carbon nanotube suspensions are measured over a range of nanotube volume fractions spanning the transition from semidilute to concentrated. The polymer-stabilized nanotubes are "sticky" and form a quiescent elastic network with a well-defined shear modulus and yield stress that both depend strongly on nanotube volume fraction with different but related...