Viscosity of sea water solutions

✍ Scribed by Chen S.F.; Chan R.C.; S.M. Read; L.A. Bromley

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1973
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 737 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0011-9164
• DOI: 10.1016/s0011-9164(00)80090-9

✦ Synopsis

The kinematic viscosity of sea water solutions and concentrates up to 11% salt by weight and from 0 to 200°C have been measured in a pressurized glass capillary viscometer. All precipitation was prevented during testing; carbonates and hydroxides by slight acidification (to pH 4.5) with concentrated (36 IV) sulfuric acid, and calcium sulfate by preheating and filtration under pressure. The precision of the results is _t 0.001 centistokcs. Existing data on density of sea water solutions were correlated and used to calculate the dynamic viscosity in centipoises. Smoothed values presented should be accurate to + 0.003 centipoises above 20°C and f 0.005 below20".The resultscompare well withotherauthors' valuesforsynthetic sea water.