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EPSRC Reference: GR/L51966/01
Title: PROCESS RHEOMETRY FOR SOFT SOLIDS
Principal Investigator: Williams, Professor R
Other Investigators:
Williams, Dr D Arnold, Dr J
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Project Partners:
Nestle Scott Bader Company Ltd
Department: Chemical & Biological Process Eng
Organisation: Swansea University
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 01 April 1998 Ends: 31 March 2001 Value (£): 119,350
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Complex fluids & soft solids Materials Processing
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:
Food and Drink
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It is proposed to exploit the sensitivity of high frequency wave dispersion to the evolution of Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) mechanical behaviour to establish the VGR as a basis for process rheometry. The ELF-VGR technique will be used to monitor the long term conditions. The research involves three areas:- (i) Development of an on-line prototype VGR for monitoring gelation with real-time analysis using parallel DSP processors (ii) Development of a general ELF-VGR analysis (iii) Validation of results by creep testing.
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