Study on the Rheological Properties of Saccharide Solutions

당용액(糖溶液)의 유동학적(流動學的) 성질(性質)에 관(關)한 연구(硏究)

The rheological properties of seven mixed sugar solutions of glucose, fructose, maltose, sucrose, and two kinds of honey, the chestnut and the acacia, were discussed. The fluidity of the above samples were studied by using the applied pressure horizontal viscometer with which glycerine was confirmed to be a Newtonian flow at $25^{\circ}C$. Time required to pass the constant volume of the sample fluids through the capillary was measured at various pressure differences, ${\Delta}p$, and the ${\Delta}p$ vs ${\Delta}p{\cdot}t$ in the Poiseuille equation was plotted. Shear rate against shearing stress, on the other hand, was plotted for the sample fluids and it was found that all the sample fluids have shown a Newtonian behavior. It was interesting to note that the shear viscosity increased as the concentration of sugar solutions increased, and as the concentration of sucrose became higher than that of maltose, although the total concentration of sugar solution is constant.