ABSTRACT:The viscosity of four aged bio-oil samples was measured experimentally at various shear rates and temperatures by using a rotational viscometer. The experimental biooils were derived from fast pyrolysis of beech wood at 450, 500 and 550 °C, andMiscanthus at 500 °C (in this work, they were named as BW1, BW2, BW3 and MXG) in a bubbling fluidised bed reactor. The viscosity of all bio-oils kept constant at various shear rates at the same temperature, which indicated that they were Newtonian fluids.The viscosity of bio-oils was strongly dependent on the temperature, and by increasing the temperature from 30 to 80 °C, the viscosity of BW1, BW2, BW3 and MXG decreased by 90.7%, 93.3%, 92.6% and 90.2%, respectively. The Arrhenius viscosity model, which have been commonly used to represent the temperature dependence of the viscosity of many fluids, did not fit the viscosity-temperature experimental data of all bio-oils very well, especially in the low and high temperature regions. For comparison, the Williams-Landel-Ferry (WLF) model was also used. The results showed that the WLF model gave a very good description of the viscosity-temperature relationship of each bio-oil with very small residuals and the BW3 bio-oil had the strongest viscosity-temperature dependence.