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Rheological characterization of fibrillated cellulose suspensions via bucket vane viscometer

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This paper discusses the practical application of a bucket vane viscometer in the characterization of novel nanofibrillated cellulose suspensions. Specifically, we use two different grades of nanocellulose, Masuko grinded and TEMPO oxidized ones. We work at the consistency range of 1–2.3 % w/w. We find, in agreement to more accurate rheometer based experiments, that both these materials behave in a highly non-linear manner. Thus, as we discuss in this paper, using a wide gap device necessitates the use of a correction algorithm in the conversion of the angular velocity to global shear rate to access the materials intrinsic, geometry independent, flow behavior. Furthermore, from the application viewpoint, we find that the classically measured low shear rate viscosity is not a good quantity to characterize these materials.

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This work was supported by the Effnet program in the Finnish Forest Cluster Ltd. Also, the support from the Academy of Finland through the COMP Center of Excellence, the project number 140268, and within the framework of the International Doctoral Programme in Bioproducts Technology (PaPSaT) are acknowledged.

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  1. Department of Applied Physics, School of Science, Aalto University, PO Box 11100, 00076, Aalto, Finland

    Mikael Mohtaschemi, Antti Puisto, Marko Korhonen & Mikko J. Alava

  2. Department of Forest Products Technology, School of Chemical Technology, Aalto University, PO Box 16300, 00076, Aalto, Finland

    Katarina Dimic-Misic, Thaddeus Maloney & Jouni Paltakari

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Mohtaschemi, M., Dimic-Misic, K., Puisto, A. et al. Rheological characterization of fibrillated cellulose suspensions via bucket vane viscometer. Cellulose 21, 1305–1312 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-014-0235-1

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