Ferranti-Shirley

An Automated Ferranti-Shirley Viscometer," A.F. Kah, M.E. Koehler, T.F. Niemann, T. Provder, and R.R. Eley, in Computer Applications in Applied Polymer Science. ACS Symposium Series 197, 1982. 

Kah, A. F. Koehler, M. E. Niemann, T. F. Provder, T. Eley, R. R. "An Automated Ferranti-Shirley Viscometer" in "Computer Applications in Applied Polymer Science" Provder, T, Ed. ACS SYMPOSIUM SERIES No. 197, American Chemical Society Washington, D.C., 1982 pp.223-241. 

Prior to the removal of the film from the gel block, samples of liquid were rapidly removed at various temperature levels and their viscosities measured on a Ferranti-Shirley cone plate viscometer at 20°C. The amount of material required fcr each measurement was very small and enough could be obtained by making one pass with a small spoon spatula across the width of the plastisol. At a temperature... 

Viscosity measurements on emulsions were carried out with three types of viscometers. Figure 2 shows the flow curves of emulsions with different volume ratios of the two solutions, as measured with a Ferranti-Shirley cone-plate viscometer. The ratio between the viscosities of the two pure polymer solutions is about 3 at low shear rates but only 2 at the highest shear rates. 

Viscosity Measurements. These were carried out on solutions of the procyanidin polymers using a Ferranti-Shirley cone viscometer at 25.0 0.1 °C with a 3.5-cm-radius cone. This viscosity was measured at several rotation rates to check for shear dependence. The results were constant over the ranges used (20 to 500 revolutions per minute, depending on the viscosity), and the resulting viscosity values were averaged to obtain the results in the test. 

A Ferranti-Shirley cone-plate viscometer was interfaced to a minicomputer system by means of a microcomputer. The microcomputer collects data from the instrument corresponding to shear rate, shear stress and temperature. Data are transmitted to the minicomputer for storage, analysis and the generation of reports and plots. Four types of analyses are performed ... 

The Ferranti-Shirley Viscometer is a cone-plate type instrument which can be used in a variety of operating modes. Its durability and the wide temperature range accessible with this instrument have made it a valuable tool in the characterization of polymers and coatings. The main drawback in using this instrument for large numbers of samples has been that the time required to manually calculate, tabulate and plot the data obtained from the graphical output frequently exceeds the time required to make the experimental runs themselves. 

FERRANTI-SHIRLEY VISCOMETER SHEAR STRESS VS.SHEAR RATE... 

Figure 20. Shear stress developed in IGT polyisobutene pick test oil and a silicone oil as a function of shear rate in a Ferranti-Shirley cone and plate viscometer with a cone angle of 20 30" (22).

A cone and plate viscometer, such as the Ferranti-Shirley or the Weissenberg instruments, shears a fluid sample in the small angle (usually 4° or less) between a flat surface and a rotating cone whose apex just touches the surface. Figure 3f illustrates one such arrangement. This geometry has the advantage that the shear rate is everywhere uniform and equal io co/ sin, since the local cone velocity is cor and the separation between the... 

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