Temperature-Compensated Viscosity Key to Coating Consistency

摘要

Achieving consistent, coating properties can be an expensive and challenging proposition. Success requires maintaining uniform film thickness throughout, the manufacturing process. Manufacturers and researchers agree that fluid viscosity is a critically important measure of the ultimate film thickness, and typically monitor the in-process fluid viscosity to assure that final coat characteristics are met. Unfortunately, fluid viscosity is impacted by temperature, and temperature variations are common in many processes. Raw viscosity data must, therefore, be adjusted for temperature to achieve coating quality requirements.