Research Article
Absolute Viscosities of Vegetable Oils at Different Temperatures and Shear Rate Range of 64.5 to 4835 s−1
Table 3
Absolute viscosities of the different vegetable oils at different temperatures (experimental and published).
| Oil | Temperature (°C) | Absolute viscosity (Pa·s) | Experimental* | Published Ref1 | Published Ref2 | Published Ref3 |
| Olive | 40 | 0.0341 | 0.0363 | | 0.0463 (35°C) | 70 | 0.0157 | 0.0124 | | 0.0181 (65°C) |
| Peanut | 26 | 0.0574 | 0.0565 (21°C) | | | 38 | 0.0380 | 0.0387 | | 0.0456 (35°C) | 54 | 0.0236 | 0.0268 | | 0.0275 (50°C) |
| Rapeseed | 38 | 0.0376 | | 0.0449 | | 50 | 0.0305 | | 0.0303 (49°C) | |
| Safflower | 26 | 0.0445 | 0.0522 (25°C) | | | 38 | 0.0299 | 0.0286 | | 0.0353 (35°C) |
| Sesame | 38 | 0.0351 | 0.0324 | | 0.0411 (35°C) | 50 | 0.0251 | | | 0.0248 |
| Soybean | 30 | 0.0405 | 0.0406 | | 0.0386 (35°C) | 50 | 0.0232 | 0.0206 | 0.0233 (49°C) | 0.0236 | 90 | 0.0098 | 0.0078 | 0.0095 (82°C) | 0.0087 (95°C) |
| Sunflower | 38 | 0.0323 | 0.0311 | | | 50 | 0.0234 | | | 0.0250 |
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Mean of 3 measurements; Ref1: Steffe [12]; Ref2: Noureddini et al. [13]; Ref3: Fasina and Colley [9].
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