Flow, pseudoplastic

Com and rice starches have been oxidized and subsequently cyanoethylated (97). As molecular size decreases due to degradation during oxidation, the degree of cyanoethylation increases. The derivatized starch shows pseudoplastic flow in water dispersion at higher levels of cyanoethylation the flow is thixotropic. Com and rice starches have been oxidized and subsequently carboxymethylated (98). Such derivatives are superior in the production of textile sizes. Potato starch has been oxidized with neutral aqueous bromine and fully chemically (99) and physically (100) characterized. Amylose is more sensitive to bromine oxidation than amylopectin and oxidation causes a decrease in both gelatinization temperature range and gelatinization enthalpy. 

Many microbial polysaccharides show pseudoplastic flow, also known as shear thinning. When solutions of these polysaccharides are sheared, the molecules align in the shear field and the effective viscosity is reduced. This reduction of viscosity is not a consequence of degradation (unless the shear rate exceeds 105 s 1) since the viscosity recovers immediately when die shear rate is decreased. This combination of viscous and elastic behaviour, known as viscoelasticity, distinguishes microbial viscosifiers from solutions of other thickeners. Examples of microbial viscosifiers are ... 

J. G. Savins "Generalized Newtonian (Pseudoplastic) Flow in Stationary Pipe and Annuli," Pet. Trans., AIME (1958), 213, 325. 

Pseudomonas fluorescens, 1 732 11 4 Pseudomonas putida, 11 4 Pseudomonas testosteroni alcohol dehydrogenase, 3 672 Pseudopelletierine, 2 81-82 Pseudoplastic flow, 7 280t Pseudoplastic fluids, 11 768 Pseudoplasticity, 10 679 Pseudoplastic with yield stress flow, 7 280t Pseudopolymorphism, 8 69... 

Since HEC solutions have a pseudoplastic flow behavior, the apparent viscosity will change with the shear rates applied, and the intrinsic viscosity found experimentally will generally differ up to about 10% from the true intrinsic viscosity extrapolated to a shear rate of q = 0. The following empirical correction formula for this effect was proposed by Vink (48) ... 

Thixotropic Time-dependent pseudoplastic flow. At constant applied shear rate, viscosity decreases. In a flow curve, hysteresis occurs. Paint, quicksand. In bentonite clay gels which liquefy on shaking and solidify on standing, there is a time-dependent aligning to match the induced flow. After the shear rate is reduced it takes some time for the original alignments to be restored. 

In some colloidal dispersions, the shear rate (flow) remains at zero until a threshold shear stress is reached, termed the yield stress (rY), and then Newtonian or pseudoplastic flow begins. A common cause of such behaviour is the existence of an interparticle or intermolecular network which initially acts like a solid and offers resistance to any positional changes of the volume elements. In this case flow only occurs when the applied stress exceeds the strength of the network and what was a solid becomes instead a fluid. 

Unlike plastic flow, pseudoplastic flow is characterized as the flow that occurs as soon as a shear stress is applied and the apparent viscosity decreases with increasing shear stress (i.e., shear-thinning) without exhibiting a yield value, as illustrated in Figure 4.39. Empirically, the quantitative relationship is given by ... 

A dilatant flow is characterized by the opposite type of pseudoplastic flow in which the apparent viscosity increases with the increase in shear stress (i.e., shearthickening). The empirical equation described for the dilatant flow is similar to Equation (4.84) but the exponent n is greater than 1. This behavior is not common for all pharmaceutical solutions and dispersions but it is exhibited by pastes of small, deflocculated particles (solid content > 50%). There is only a limited amount of fluid that can till the interparticulate voids. 

Figure 8-5 Shearing Stress-Rate of Shear Diagrams. (A) Newtonian liquid, viscous flow, (B) dilatant flow, (C) pseudoplastic flow, (D) plastic flow.

The physical form of a drug product that is pourable displays Newtonian or pseudoplastic flow behavior and conforms to its container at room temperature. In contrast, a semisolid is not pourable and does not flow at low shear stress or conform to its container at room temperature [12], According to its physical characteristics, liquid dosage forms may be dispersed systems or solutions. 

A liquid is pourable it flows and conforms to its container at room temperature. It displays Newtonian or pseudoplastic flow behavior. 

Alany et al. [11,35] reported on the phase behavior of two pharmaceutical ME systems showing interesting viscosity changes. The viscosity of both systems increased with increasing volume fraction of the dispersed phase to 0.15 and flow was Newtonian. However, formation of LC in one of the two systems, namely the cosurfac-tant-free system, resulted in a dramatic increase in viscosity that was dependent on the volume fraction of the internal phase and a change to pseudoplastic flow. In contrast, the viscosity of the bicontinuous ME was independent of water volume fraction. The authors used two different mathematical models to explain the viscosity results and related those to the different colloidal microstructures described. 

In general, methylcellulose solutions exhibit pseudoplastic flow and there is no yield point. Nonthixotropic flow properties are observed below the gelation temperature. 

Most emulsions, unless very dilute, display hoth plastic and pseudoplastic flow behaviour rather than simple Newtonian flow. The flow properties of fluid emulsions should have little influence on their biological behaviour, although the rheological characteristics of semisolid emulsions may affect their performance. The pourability, spreadability and syringeability of an emulsion will, however, be directly determined by its rheological properties. The high viscosity of w/o emulsions leads to problems with intramuscular administration of injectable formulations. Conversion to a multiple emulsion (w/o/w), in which the external oil phase is replaced by an aqueous phase, leads to a dramatic decrease in viscosity and consequent improved ease of injection. 

In [26] the velocity fields and thereby the power for stirrers with simple geometry (anchor stirrer and gate stirrer) have been calculated for the laminar case (highly viscous liquid with Newtonian or pseudoplastic flow behavior) by the help of the numerical solution of the continuity and momentum balance in connection with the rheological constitutive equation. In the case of Newtonian fluids the power characteristic in the laminar flow range could be calculated for all three stirrers with the help of the expression ... 

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