Sarah,
Divide the flow rate in cm^3/min by the cross sectional area of your flow
cell in cm^2 and you'll have the laminar flow velocity in cm/min
(flow/cross sectional area = laminar flow velocity). Just be sure to keep
space and time in the same units throughout your calculation.
Best Wishes - Doug Caldwell
>Dear biofilmers
>>could anyone provide me with an equation for converting ml/min into
>mm/s; when using a peristalsic pump and a flow cell.
>>All literature seems to quote 0.2mm/sec as a usual speed, but I am
>uncertain as to how they arrive at this figure when pump speeds are in
>rpm and flow rates are in ml/min.
>>Surely 0.2mm/s could be highly variable depending on the tube radius?
>>Help
>>Sarah Boyle
>Research School of Biosciences
>University of Kent
>CT2 7NJ
>>01227 764000 ext. 3023
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