USE OF VISCOSITY AS AN IN-LINE DIAGNOSTIC FOR HIGH INTERNAL PHASE EMULSION GENERATION

摘要

2148826 9507455 PCTABS00036 A lightweight absorbent foam is produced using a high internal phase emulsion (HIPE), the production of which incorporates the use of capillary viscosity measurements as an in-line diagnostic for HIPE quality. The in-line diagnostics yield measurements of viscosity slop and amplitude. These measurements offer several advantages for monitoring emulsion quality, including stable high resolution measurement of hardware-independent parameters of the whole flow, without the need for sampling.