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How Can You Measure Viscosity With Coriolis Flowmeters?

March 31, 2013
What Is Coriolis Force, Who Discovered It and How Is Viscosity Defined?
About the Author
Katherine Bonfante is senior digital editor for Control and ControlDesign. You can email her at [email protected] or check out her Google+ profile.Senior Technical Editor Dan Hebert wrote the article "Measuring Viscosity With Coriolis Flowmeters" a few years back explaining how Coriolis flowmeters can be used to measure viscosity.

The article gave a quick explanation of what Coriolis force is, who discovered it and how viscosity is defined. Hebert explained how different liquids such as tar, syrup, water, gasoline and even ketchup have different viscosities.

When the article was published, Endress+Hauser had just published a research report that resulted in the introduction of direct viscosity measurement in the company's Promass 83 I line.

Read the article now to learn more.

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