Rheology for water-based hydraulic fluids

• High water-based hydraulic fluids with slightly higher viscosities than water, for instance 95-5 emulsions and micro-emulsions, do not show any significant deviation from a Newtonian fluid. Adding polymeric viscosity improvers for the purpose of increasing the viscosity will be successful as long as the shear rate is low. However, as the shear rate is increased, higher than about 10**3 s** minus **1, the viscosity will decrease and the advantage of the improver will vanish. The shear rate available was too low to break down the viscosity improvers. This is shown by the fact that the shear stress curve is reversible. Non-Newtonian fluids approach a more Newtonian behavior when the temperature is increased. The viscosity increase with pressure is much lower for water-based fluids than for a mineral oil. The pressure coefficient is about 10 times higher for mineral oils. The pressure coefficient increases if the water content of a water-based fluid is reduced.

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