Temperature effects viscosity

Viscosity Index Improvers. VI improvers are long-chain, high molecular weight polymers that increase the relative viscosity of an oil at high temperatures more than at low temperatures. In cold oil the molecules of the polymer adopt a compressed coiled form so that the affect on viscosity is minimized. In hot oil the molecules swell, and interaction with the oil produces a proportionally greater thickening effect. Although the viscosity of the oil—polymer mixture decreases as the temperature increases, viscosity does not decrease as much as the oil alone would decrease. 

Supercritical Mixtures Dehenedetti-Reid showed that conven-tionaf correlations based on the Stokes-Einstein relation (for hquid phase) tend to overpredict diffusivities in the supercritical state. Nevertheless, they observed that the Stokes-Einstein group D g l/T was constant. Thus, although no general correlation ap es, only one data point is necessaiy to examine variations of fluid viscosity and/or temperature effects. They explored certain combinations of aromatic solids in SFg and COg. 

The second generalisation relates to the effect of temperature on flow. An increase in temperature increases the rate of flow. It also increases the rate of cross-linking. It is commonly observed that at low temperatures the effect of temperature on viscosity predominates and the total flow occurring before cross-linking increases with temperature. 

Equation (9.7) implies that if we know the viscosity at some temperature T we can estimate the viscosity at the Tg and hence in turn estimate the viscosity at another temperature Tj, i.e. the WLF equation gives the effect of temperature on viscosity. 

In order to allow for the effect of temperature on viscosity a shift factor, ar is often used. The Carreau equation then becomes... 

The viscosity flow curves for these materials are shown in Fig. 5.17. To obtain similar data at other temperatures then a shift factor of the type given in equation (5.27) would have to be used. The temperature effect for polypropylene is shown in Fig. 5.2. 

Plastic Viscosity and Yield Point. Plastic viscosity and yield point measurements are obtained from a direct indicating viscometer. Due to the temperature effect on the flow properties of oil-base mud, the testing procedure is modified. The mud sample in the container is placed into a cup heater [23]. The heated viscometer cup provides flow property data under atmospheric pressure and bottomhole temperature. 

All oils become thinner when heated and thicker when cooled, but some are less sensitive than others to these viscosity/temperature effects. The degree of sensitivity is known as Viscosity Index (VI). Oil is said to have high VI if it displays a relatively small change of viscosity for a given change of temperature. 

Temperature effects indicate an activation energy of 113 kJ/mol for Stage I and 16 kJ/mol for Stage II in 7079-T651 alloy. Crack velocity in Stage II is lowered as the solution viscosity is increased. 

The diffusion current Id depends upon several factors, such as temperature, the viscosity of the medium, the composition of the base electrolyte, the molecular or ionic state of the electro-active species, the dimensions of the capillary, and the pressure on the dropping mercury. The temperature coefficient is about 1.5-2 per cent °C 1 precise measurements of the diffusion current require temperature control to about 0.2 °C, which is generally achieved by immersing the cell in a water thermostat (preferably at 25 °C). A metal ion complex usually yields a different diffusion current from the simple (hydrated) metal ion. The drop time t depends largely upon the pressure on the dropping mercury and to a smaller extent upon the interfacial tension at the mercury-solution interface the latter is dependent upon the potential of the electrode. Fortunately t appears only as the sixth root in the Ilkovib equation, so that variation in this quantity will have a relatively small effect upon the diffusion current. The product m2/3 t1/6 is important because it permits results with different capillaries under otherwise identical conditions to be compared the ratio of the diffusion currents is simply the ratio of the m2/3 r1/6 values. 

Figure 7.8 The effect of temperature on viscosity. Adapted from as Figure 7.5.

Durand, A. 2007. Aqueous solutions of amphiphilic polysaccharides Concentration and temperature effect on viscosity. European Polymer Journal 43,1744-1753. 

The viscosity of a cement affects the pumping properties. The viscosity must be kept low enough to ensure pumpability of the slurry during the entire operation period. In deep wells, because of the increased temperature, the viscosity becomes increasingly lower, which leads to undesirable flow characteristics of the slurry. This effect can be serious, because the viscosity follows the Arrhenius law. Some of the additives used for viscosity control also... 

The effectiveness of a number of crude oil dispersants, measured using a variety of evaluation procedures, indicates that temperature effects result from changing viscosity, dispersants are most effective at a salinity of approximately 40 ppt (parts per thousand), and concentration of dispersant is critical to effectiveness. The mixing time has little effect on performance, and a calibration procedure for laboratory dispersant effectiveness must include contact with water in a manner analogous to the extraction procedure otherwise, effectiveness may be inflated [587]. Compensation for the coloration produced by the dispersant alone is important only for some dispersants. 

The formation of excimers and exciplexes are diffusion-controlled processes. The photophysical effects are thus detected at relatively high concentrations of the species so that a sufficient number of collisions can occur during the excited-state lifetime. Temperature and viscosity are of course important parameters. 

In most investigations in solvents of medium or high viscosity, or in polymers above the glass transition temperature, the fluorescence quantum yields were in fact found to be a power function of the bulk viscosity, with values of the exponent x less than 1 (e.g. for p-N,N-dimethylaminobenzylidenemalononitrile, x = 0.69 in glycerol and 0.43 in dimethylphthalate). This means that the effective viscosity probed by a molecular rotor appears to be less than the bulk viscosity >/ because of free volume effects. 

A. A. Ayuk, W. Rettig, and E. Lippert, Temperature and viscosity effects on an excited state equilibrium as revealed from the dual fluorescence of very dilute solutions of l-dimethylamino-4-cyanonaphthalene. Ber. Bansenges. Phys. Chem. 85, 553 (1981). 

The flames themselves can alter the turbulence. In simple open Bunsen flames whose tube Reynolds number indicates that the flow is in the turbulent regime, some results have shown that the temperature effects on the viscosity are such that the resulting flame structure is completely laminar. Similarly, for a completely laminar flow in which a simple wire is oscillated near the flame surface, a wrinkled flame can be obtained (Fig. 4.41). Certainly, this example is relevant to <5L < /k that is, a wrinkled flame. Nevertheless, most open flames... 

Viscosity decreases as the temperature increases, and the rate of change appears to depend primarily on the nature or composition of the petroleum, but other factors, such as volatility, may also have an effect. The effect of temperature on viscosity is generally represented by the equation... 

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