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milk powder viscosity

milk powder viscosity

milk powder viscosity

(OP)
Hello everyone¡¡

I'm looking for a 33% solution of milk powder in water viscosity. Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance

RE: milk powder viscosity

Make some and measure it??

RE: milk powder viscosity

(OP)
If I could know the viscosity measuring it by myself I would have done it, so that means, that I cannot measure it by myself, therefore I'm asking for it. Anyway thank you very much for giving an answer.

RE: milk powder viscosity


Milk is not a solution but an emulsion of fat globules and a suspension of casein micelles all suspended in an aqueous serum phase, in which water (cow milk) content is about 82% mass. Therefore, mixing 77% water with 33% powder should still not be a true solution. What do you think ?

RE: milk powder viscosity

Depends on the powder formulation. When I worked at a powder plant viscosity of reconstituted solution varied dramatically between grades.

RE: milk powder viscosity

Hire a laboratory to do a proper rheological study on the solutions of interest, buy a rheometer and investigate it yourself, or buy a Brookfield viscometer and do the best you can.  If you don't know the rheology, you CANNOT design any equipment.  Oh, you could guess at it!  But that is not science!  

Good luck,
Latexman

RE: milk powder viscosity

If you would like an inexpensive way to measure viscosity try making a small batch of the solution and use a Zahn or Ford cup.  They work by draining the fluid out of a certain size hole while you measure the time with a stop watch.  The time for that size hole then correlates to cps.  I think you can find them at mcmaster.com but you will find them for sale if you google the names.

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