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ASBC Beer Color and Turbidity

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Color and haze measurement of fruit drinks and carbonated beverages

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How do you validate a APHA/Pt-Co/Hazen 500 liquid color standard?

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Is it possible to create ASTM traceable haze standards above 30%?

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SPC Results for Diagnostic Didymium Filter Test

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Do you know what Molten Color is?

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Measuring the Color of Clear Liquids

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ASBC Beer Color and Turbidity

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Ken Phillips

ASBC Color The ASBC Beer Color scale has a range of approximately 1 to 11 units, with the more yellow, pale worts at the low end of the scale and the redder color of dark worts, beers and caramels at the upper end of the scale. The industry reference method for ASBC Beer Color and […]

Posted in Color and Appearance Theory, Food, UltraScan PRO, UltraScan VIS, Vista Tagged ASBC, beer, EBC, scattering, turbidity Leave a comment

Color and haze measurement of fruit drinks and carbonated beverages

Posted on October 21, 2015 by Ken Phillips

FAQ: “I have worked with a company measuring the color of sports drinks. Now this company is interested in fruit drinks and also in carbonated soft drinks. Have you worked with these types of beverages? Any advice or recommendations?” Fruit drinks contain: water corn sweeteners may contain some fruit juice or fruit solids flavors (oil […]

Posted in Food, UltraScan VIS Tagged beverage, carbonization, clouding agent, fruit drink, haze, sports drink, transmission haze Leave a comment

How do you validate a APHA/Pt-Co/Hazen 500 liquid color standard?

Posted on June 1, 2015 by Ken Phillips

As described in Section 6 of ASTM D1209, there are 2 criteria to validate a APHA/Pt-Co 500 standard: Ken PhillipsMr. Philips has spent the last 30 years in product development and management, technical sales, marketing, and business development in several industries. Today, he is the global market development manager for HunterLab, focused on understanding customer […]

Posted in Chemical, Color and Appearance Theory, EasyMatch QC, EasyMatch QC-ER, Pharmaceuticals, Plastic, UltraScan PRO, UltraScan VIS Tagged absorbance, APHA, APHA color standard, Hazen, Pt-Co, PtCo, validation Leave a comment

Is it possible to create ASTM traceable haze standards above 30%?

Posted on September 12, 2014 by Ken Phillips

The current, available ASTM D1003 Haze Standards have nominal Haze% values of 1, 5, 10, 20 and 30 with air (transparent solids) or the transmission cell filled with DI water being 0 (transparent liquids). Here are some thoughts on further options. Ken PhillipsMr. Philips has spent the last 30 years in product development and management, […]

Posted in Chemical, Pharmaceuticals, Plastic, UltraScan PRO, UltraScan VIS, Uncategorized Tagged ASTM D1003, ASTM D1003 agreement, haze, Procedure B, transmission haze Leave a comment

SPC Results for Diagnostic Didymium Filter Test

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Ken Phillips

FAQ: “We take the results from the Didymium Filter Test on our HunterLab Vista and plot them in an SPC chart over time to look at trends. We are seeing the 430 and 570 nm filters slowly decrease. Can you help us understand what may be occurring?” Ken PhillipsMr. Philips has spent the last 30 […]

Posted in EasyMatch QC, EasyMatch QC-ER, UltraScan PRO, UltraScan VIS Tagged diagnostic test, didymium, didymium filter Leave a comment

Do you know what Molten Color is?

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Ken Phillips

FAQ:”A client is asking me to measure something they call “Molten Color’. Do you have any information on this? Do Hunterlab instrument have a function for this color?” Ken PhillipsMr. Philips has spent the last 30 years in product development and management, technical sales, marketing, and business development in several industries. Today, he is the global […]

Posted in Chemical, Color and Appearance Theory, EasyMatch QC, UltraScan VIS Tagged APHA, Bisphenol, BPA, BPA Bisphenol A, cresylic, cresylic acid, Gardner, hot, hot liquid, maleic anhydride, molten, molten color, molten colour, phthalic anhydride, Pt-Co, PtCo, solid aromatic hydrocarbons Leave a comment

Measuring the Color of Clear Liquids

Posted on August 7, 2014 by Ken Phillips

HunterLab diffuse sphere instruments are often used to measure liquid samples, especially clear liquids. The liquid fragrance shown above is one such example of a clear liquid. The fragrances is so clear that is resembles water. Fragrances such as this are often added to cleaning supplies, air fresheners, or other consumer products. One of the […]

Posted in Chemical, Other, Pharmaceuticals, UltraScan PRO, UltraScan VIS Tagged clear liquids, fragrance, water like liquid Leave a comment
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