Textured-surface quartz resonator fluid density and viscosity monitor

Martin, Stephen J; Wiczer, James J; Cernosek, Richard W; Frye, Gregory C; Gebert, Charles T; Casaus, Leonard; Mitchell, Mary A

Title: Textured-surface quartz resonator fluid density and viscosity monitor

Abstract

A pair of thickness-shear mode resonators, one smooth and one with a textured surface, allows fluid density and viscosity to be independently resolved. A textured surface, either randomly rough or regularly patterned, leads to trapping of liquid at the device surface. The synchronous motion of this trapped liquid with the oscillating device surface allows the device to weigh the liquid; this leads to an additional response that depends on liquid density. This additional response enables a pair of devices, one smooth and one textured, to independently resolve liquid density and viscosity; the difference in responses determines the density while the smooth device determines the density-viscosity product, and thus, the pair determines both density and viscosity.

Inventors:

Martin, Stephen J ^[1]; Wiczer, James J ^[1]; Cernosek, Richard W ^[1]; Frye, Gregory C ^[2]; Gebert, Charles T ^[1]; Casaus, Leonard ^[3]; Mitchell, Mary A ^[4]

Albuquerque, NM
Cedar Crest, NM
Bernalillo, NM
Tijeras, NM

Issue Date:: 1998-08-25

Research Org.:: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)

OSTI Identifier:: 871800

Patent Number(s):: 5798452

Application Number:: 08/846,085

Assignee:: Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, NM)

Patent Classifications (CPCs):: G - PHYSICS G01 - MEASURING G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES

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G - PHYSICS G01 - MEASURING G01N - INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
G01N11/16 - by measuring damping effect upon oscillatory body
G01N2291/0258 - Structural degradation, e.g. fatigue of composites, ageing of oils
G01N2291/02818 - Density, viscosity
G01N2291/0421 - Longitudinal waves
G01N2291/0422 - Shear waves, transverse waves, horizontally polarised waves
G01N29/022 - {Fluid sensors based on microsensors, e.g. quartz crystal-microbalance [QCM], surface acoustic wave [SAW] devices, tuning forks, cantilevers, flexural plate wave [FPW] devices
G01N9/002 - {using variation of the resonant frequency of an element vibrating in contact with the material submitted to analysis

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Resource Type:: Patent

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: textured-surface; quartz; resonator; fluid; density; viscosity; monitor; pair; thickness-shear; mode; resonators; smooth; textured; surface; allows; independently; resolved; randomly; regularly; patterned; leads; trapping; liquid; device; synchronous; motion; trapped; oscillating; weigh; additional; response; depends; enables; devices; resolve; difference; responses; determines; density-viscosity; product; device surface; surface allows; fluid density; textured surface; quartz resonator; oscillating device; allows fluid; liquid density; resonator fluid; mode resonators; density-viscosity product; viscosity monitor; thickness-shear mode; independently resolve; independently resolved; /73/

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                    Martin, Stephen J, Wiczer, James J, Cernosek, Richard W, Frye, Gregory C, Gebert, Charles T, Casaus, Leonard, and Mitchell, Mary A. Textured-surface quartz resonator fluid density and viscosity monitor.  United States: N. p., 1998. 
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                    Martin, Stephen J, Wiczer, James J, Cernosek, Richard W, Frye, Gregory C, Gebert, Charles T, Casaus, Leonard, & Mitchell, Mary A. Textured-surface quartz resonator fluid density and viscosity monitor.  United States.

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                    Martin, Stephen J, Wiczer, James J, Cernosek, Richard W, Frye, Gregory C, Gebert, Charles T, Casaus, Leonard, and Mitchell, Mary A. Tue .  
        "Textured-surface quartz resonator fluid density and viscosity monitor".  United States.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/871800.

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  abstractNote = {A pair of thickness-shear mode resonators, one smooth and one with a textured surface, allows fluid density and viscosity to be independently resolved. A textured surface, either randomly rough or regularly patterned, leads to trapping of liquid at the device surface. The synchronous motion of this trapped liquid with the oscillating device surface allows the device to weigh the liquid; this leads to an additional response that depends on liquid density. This additional response enables a pair of devices, one smooth and one textured, to independently resolve liquid density and viscosity; the difference in responses determines the density while the smooth device determines the density-viscosity product, and thus, the pair determines both density and viscosity.},

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Martin, S. J.; Wessendorf, K. O.; Gebert, C. T.
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Characterization of a quartz crystal microbalance with simultaneous mass and liquid loading
journal, October 1991

Martin, Stephen J.; Granstaff, Victoria Edwards.; Frye, Gregory C.
Analytical Chemistry, Vol. 63, Issue 20
https://doi.org/10.1021/ac00020a015

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conference, January 1993

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journal, October 1991