Process Applications :: Brookfield Engineering Viscosity Journal

Asphalt Plants

Brookfield's TT-100 in-line viscometers are ideal solutions for monitoring and controlling asphalt production at oil and gas refineries worldwide. Rugged and dependable, the TT-100 viscometer is used to monitor viscosities during the second distillation within the vacuum tower process.

Tomato Processing

The Brookfield STT-100 in-line process viscometer helps ensure the proper viscosity for tomato processing operations. The STT-100 is designed for use in tomato processing plants where continuous, accurate and real-time measurements are necessary to reduce batch failures and ensure superior product consistency for purees, sauces and juices.

Ceramic Slurries

Brookfield's model TT220 immersion-probe viscometers are ideal for measuring and controlling viscosity of ceramic slurries. The industries that are best suited for this requirement are investment casting, Lost Foam, and refractory coatings.

Flexible Animal Glue/Book Binding

Brookfield's model TT-220 immersion-probe viscometer is ideal in controlling the viscosity of flexible animal glue used in the book binding process. There are two distinct known processes that our instrument has been used to measure and control the adhesive's viscosity.

Fuel Oil

Fuel oil is used to heat and/or power large commercial and institutional buildings. The problem for plant and facilities managers is the variable quality of delivered oil. Inefficient burning of fuel can result if the oil does not properly atomize during combustion.

Paper and Paperboard Coatings

Brookfield's TT-100 in-line viscometers are ideal solutions for monitoring and controlling coating viscosities in the production of a wide variety of paper and paperboard products such as office and computer paper, commercial tube and roll products, cardboard boxes and containers. All paper, pulp and cardboard products, including those converted to envelopes and writing paper, require a uniform coating - a critical process parameter that Brookfield's TT-100 viscometers help to maintain.

Chocolate

Chocolate processing, a major segment of the food industry, is a primary application market for process control. The Brookfield TT-200 Process Viscometer provides on-line monitoring of viscosity in the formulation (coating and molding) of fully melted chocolate.

Oil/Gas Exploration And Drilling

Field engineers on-site at oil and gas drilling wells need to perform rapid viscosity tests which simulate pressurized process conditions for down-hole environments. Applications include fracturing fluids, drilling muds, cements and oil/water emulsions, all at elevated temperatures characteristic of down-hole conditions.

Flexographic Printing

Flexographic Printing, a major segment of the printing industry, is a primary application market for viscosity control.