Dear Frank A Saybolt Viscometer is basically an "educated hole". A known quantity of the fluid, at a given temperature, is put in the viscometer, and the time it takes for the fluid to drip out the hole is noted in seconds. Viscosity is reported as "Saybolt seconds Universal", SSU. There are conversion factors to get from SSU to kinematic viscosity.
See: http://www.globalgilson.com/productdisplay.asp?model=PTA-176 Best wishes, Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: Frank Shields To: 'Discussion of biomass cooking stoves' Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 2:11 PM Subject: [Stoves] Kinematic Viscosity measure of organic waste water question Dear Stovers, I have been asked a few time to determine the kinematic viscosity of the remaining liquid from a methane production solution. These are new words for me and looking at equipment there seem to be many ways to determine viscosity and then calculators to convert to kinematic units. For this matrix and the range needed any suggestions on inexpensive equipment? And what is the conversion from distance traveled of a liquid(?) to kinematic units? whatever that is. Just looking into it to see if it's something we want to do. Thanks for any help Frank Frank Shields Control Laboratories, Inc. 42 Hangar Way Watsonville, CA 95076 (831) 724-5422 tel (831) 724-3188 fax www.biocharlab.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Stoves mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: http://www.bioenergylists.org/
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