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Course Description

This course on rheology reviews the basic principles of rheology including its definition and its influencers - chemical structure, morphology, and environmental conditions.  The impact by various deformation forces including compression, tension, torque, and, particularly, shear will be reviewed to demonstrate the resulting flow profiles of viscosity as a function of shear and time.  The chemistry and ancestry of current rheological agents will help clarify the appropriate selection of products for various formulation types including waterborne, solventborne, aliphatic, aromatic, and polar systems.  While targeted to formulating chemists, this course is also well suited for marketing, sales, production and customer service personnel.  Managers and supervisors would also benefit by having a better understanding, and appreciation, of the important role rheology plays to the production, storage, transport, and application of quality paints and coatings. Learn more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t4DAYNM01A  

Course Outline

• Introduction/Definition of Rheology
• Essential Elements of Rheology
• Stress and Deformation Forces
• Viscosity and Flow Profiles
• Rheological Agent Types
• Rheological Agent Chemistry
• Measuring Methods
• Review

Course Instructor

Sam Morell is a Chemical Engineering graduate of New York University.  With over 50 years in the Chemicals industry, his experience includes both technical and marketing positions at Rohm and Haas, BASF, and Air Products and Chemicals.  Mr. Morell has authored numerous technical articles on additives, pigments, and resins in various publications including PCI Magazine, Modern Paint and Coatings, The American Ink Maker, and Adhesives Age.  He has been invited by various domestic and international industry symposiums, as well as Fortune 500 companies, to present both technical papers and educational courses.  These include The American Coatings Show, The Waterborne Symposium, The European Coatings Show, and Coatings Trends and Technologies.