Analysis of Turbiscan data

General Turbiscan presentation

Contents

How to analyse Turbiscan data

Sampling
Data treatments

More complex cases

Contents

How to analyse Turbiscan data

Sampling
Data treatments

More complex cases

Analysis of Turbiscan file

Step 1 Check the quality of the meniscus
Transmission graph no reference

Good meniscus
Bad meniscus

Very important not to misinterpret variations at the top!

Analysis of Turbiscan file

Step 1 Check the quality of the meniscus
Avoid bad meniscus:
Avoid air bubbles formation during sampling
by pipetting from bottom to top
Flatten the meniscus as much as possible
after sampling
By hitting the cell gently
By leaving the sample in the oven when
working at high temperature

Leave the sample to equilibrate when working

at high temperature (dilation, capillary)

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Step 2 Transmission or Backscattering ?

Analysis of Turbiscan file

Step 2 Transmission or Backscattering ?

Reflexions on
glass cell

When T>0.2%, only work on

Transmission

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Step 3 Zoom on the right area

Focus on the important area where the product

is!

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Step 4 Put the graph in reference mode
DELTA BACKSCATTERING

Visualise the variations more

easily

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Step 4 Put the graph in reference mode
Choose the reference profile
Reference at the 3rd scan

Bad meniscus

Meniscus moves during the first 2

scans

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Step 5 Identify the instabilities

Bottom

Middle

Top

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Step 5 Identify the instabilities
Delta BS

Botto
m

Middle

Top

Instability
phenomena

Case 1

Sedimentatio
n

Case 2

Creaming

or

Flocculation
or
coalescence

Case 3

or

or

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Step 6 Compute kinetics

Migration phenomena
Creaming

cream

clarification

Migration phenomena
Sedimentation

sediment

clarification

Migration phenomena
What can you compute?
Mean value at the bottom and top :
To measures the intensity of the variation

Zone set up

Mean value kinetics

For a quick and easy comparison between samples

Migration phenomena
What can you compute?
Peak thickness :
To measures the thickness of the phase formed

Zone set up

Thickness kinetics (in

mm)

For a second level calculation, closer to what you are

used to

Migration phenomena
What can you compute?
Migration velocity=slope of clarified layer kinetics

Slope = migration
velocity

For a number to compare your

samples

Migration phenomena
What can you compute?
Hydrodynamic diameter : Stokes Law for sedimentation
V = velocity of migration of the dispersed
phase
4,6
= density difference between the
1

dispersed and the continuous phases

18 V (1 )3
= density of the continuous phase
d
g = gravity acceleration (= 9.81m.s-),
g 1
d = hydrodynamic diameter of dispersed
particles
= volume fraction
= cinematic viscosity of the continuous
Europhysics letters, 1994, 25 (19), phase
651-656

For a complete analysis of your

samples

Particle size variation

Coalescence or flocculation

Particle size increase

Particle size variation

What can you compute?
Mean value : evolution of the transmission
or backscattering as a function of time

Zone set up

Particle size variation

kinetics

Particle size variation

What can you compute?
Evolution of l* to follow one phenomena (only with TLAbexpert)

Evolution of mean diameter when possible (only with TLAbexpert)

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How to analyse Turbiscan data

Sampling
Data treatments

More complex cases

Complex cases
Case 1

Clarification ?

Complex cases
Case 1

We know the product is a

suspension of pigments

Complex cases
Case 1

sediment
Clarificatio
n

Complex cases
Case 1 Packing of sediment

Aggregated
sediment
Clarification

Complex cases
Case 2

sediment ?

Clarification ?

Complex cases
Case 2

But it is an emulsion!!!
How can it settle and not
cream???

Complex cases
Case 2 - Absorbency

Clarification

Cream

Absorbency

Backscattering

Complex cases
Case 2 - Absorbency

Clarification

Absorbing cream

Complex cases

Always keep in mind what you

are working on!!!