A 3D-Printed Multichannel Viscometer for High-Throughput Analysis of Frying Oil Quality.

ABSTRACT: Viscosity as a sensitive measure of material changes is a potential quality-control parameter for simple and rapid assessment of frying oil quality. However, conventional viscometers require improvements in throughput, portability, cost-effectiveness and usability to be widely adopted for quality-control applications. Here we present a 3D-printed multichannel viscometer for simple, inexpensive and multiplexed viscosity measurement. The multichannel viscometer enables both parallel actuation of multiple fluid flows by pressing the plunger of the viscometer by hand and direct measurement of their relative volumes dispensed with naked eye. Thus, the unknown viscosities of test fluids can be simultaneously determined by the volume ratios between a reference fluid of known viscosity and the tes

SUBMITTER: Oh S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5982248 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature