Viscous Tech, Inc

Viscoustech, Inc. is an engineering design, research and development company that specializes in solids handling and pneumatic conveying, fluid and solid mechanics, and thermodynamics. We have won competitive grants for the design, development and construction of innovative instruments capable of measuring the properties of fluids, slurries and granular materials.

Since 1993, Viscoustech, Inc. has received three Phase I and two Phase II grants from the competitive SBIR (Small Business Innovative Research) programs of the U. S. Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. In 1998, we developed an innovative pneumatic transport enhancer, the VPTE 1000, a flow control device which significantly improves the flow of particulate solids in pneumatic conveying lines. The VPTE 1000 was patented (U.S. Patent # 5,252,007) by Professor George Klinzing (University of Pittsburgh) and developed successfully by Viscoustech, Inc. Paul Solt, a highly respected expert, has commented that "the transport enhancer is an original and unique approach to tuning conveying systems to the desired velocity on a continuing basis without guessing at air volumes or changing blower speeds. This results in optimum conveying velocities with the minimum material degradation under all loading conditions."

In 1996, Viscoustech, Inc. designed and built a torsional rheometer, the VTR 1000 (U.S. Patent # 5,631,409), for measuring the properties of granular materials and slurries. The torsional rheometer is truly unique in the way it handles samples by not permitting slip at the boundary, thereby providing the shearing when the instrument is in operation.

Viscous Tech, Inc, 5372 Butler Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201-2611. Tel: 979-776-6077; Fax: 979-776-6685.