Microencapsulation of flavors is the technology of converting liquid flavor materials into easy-to-handle solids. It also provides protection against degradation reactions and prevents the loss of volatiles compounds. The capsule wall material along with the emulsion properties (i.e. viscosity and droplets size) and the drying process conditions are some of the responsible factors for the flavo...

Rice bran wax (RBX) obtained during rice bran oil purification can form organogels in edible oils. The kinetics of crystallization and the viscous properties of RBX organogels were studied using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), viscosity changes with varying temperature, hardness measurements by penetrometry, and synchrotron radiation X-ray diffraction (SR-XRD). The organogels were prep...

Abstract This paper mainly studies the tribological performance of friction pairs and poor lubrication during piston movement. Based on average Reynolds equation comprehensively considering variable viscosity density characteristics lubricating oil, a transient hydrodynamic model ring-cylinder liner pair is established. By solving established model, oil film thickness value, value other paramet...

Cellulose nanofibrils (CNF) were incorporated in water-in-oil (W/O) microemulsions and emulsions, as well as water-in-oil-in-water (W/O/W) multiple emulsions using soybean oil. The addition of CNF to the aqueous phase expanded the composition range to obtain W/O/W emulsions. CNF also increased the viscosity of the continuous phase and reduced the drop size both of which increased the stability ...

Esters of plant oils are preferred to parent oils if used as fuels in diesel engines because esterification reduces the viscosity of plant oils and makes it comparable to that of diesel. The present work mainly deals with the effect of storage time on the quality of plant oils and their esters with respect to mainly FFA content, viscosity and change in weight. The study was carried out for a pe...

Protoplanets accrete material from their natal protostellar disks until they are sufficiently massive to open a gap in the face of the disk's viscosity that arises from the magneto-rotational instability (MRI). By computing the ionization structure within observationally well-constrained disk models, we demonstrate that poorly ionized, low viscosity " dead zones " stretch out to 12 AU within ty...

To seek for new catalysts for the aquathermolysis of crude oil under relatively low temperature, in this paper, a series of Mannich base-transit metal coordination complexes was synthesized and used in aquathermolysis of heavy oil as catalyst. The results show an evident viscosity reduction by 84.2% for the heavy oil reacted at 180 C for 24 h catalyzed by the Ni(II) coordination complex. The gr...

We find that a liquid jet can bounce off a bath of the same liquid if the bath is moving horizontally with respect to the jet. Previous observations of jets rebounding off a bath (e.g., the Kaye effect) have been reported only for non-Newtonian fluids, while we observe bouncing jets in a variety of Newtonian fluids, including mineral oil poured by hand. A thin layer of air separates the bouncin...

The solubility of fluorinated refrigerants in lubrication oil affects not only the stability performance of vapor compression refrigeration system, but also the safety control of start~up. It can cause oil foaming and reduction of viscosity, resulting in liquid slugging and improper lubrication. To void the deleterious effects, an oil heater is often used. But improper heater power can cause oi...

Fatty acids esters were produced from two Nigerian lauric oils, palm kernel oil and coconut oil, by transesterification of the oils with different alcohols using PS30 lipase as a catalyst. In the conversion of palm kernel oil to alkyl esters (biodiesel), ethanol gave the highest conversion of 72%, t-butanol 62%, 1-butanol 42%, n-propanol 42% and iso-propanol 24%, while only 15% methyl ester was...