Research Article

Absolute Viscosities of Vegetable Oils at Different Temperatures and Shear Rate Range of 64.5 to 4835 s1

Table 3

Absolute viscosities of the different vegetable oils at different temperatures (experimental and published).

OilTemperature (°C)Absolute viscosity (Pa·s)
Experimental*Published Ref1Published Ref2Published Ref3

Olive 400.03410.03630.0463 (35°C)
700.01570.01240.0181 (65°C)

Peanut 260.05740.0565 (21°C)
380.03800.03870.0456 (35°C)
540.02360.02680.0275 (50°C)

Rapeseed 380.03760.0449
500.03050.0303 (49°C)

Safflower 260.04450.0522 (25°C)
380.02990.02860.0353 (35°C)

Sesame 380.03510.03240.0411 (35°C)
500.02510.0248

Soybean 300.04050.04060.0386 (35°C)
500.02320.02060.0233 (49°C)0.0236
900.00980.00780.0095 (82°C)0.0087 (95°C)

Sunflower 380.03230.0311
500.02340.0250

Mean of 3 measurements; Ref1: Steffe [12]; Ref2: Noureddini et al. [13]; Ref3: Fasina and Colley [9].