Design of a conductivity meter for highly insulating liquids

The accurate measurement of the electrical conductivity of low conducting liquids is an important issue in many industrial applications. The lack of repeatability is a common problem to the available procedures and commercial techniques. In this paper, we present a device to measure the electrical conductivity of low conducting liquids. The variable inter-electrode gap allows us to assure the existence of an ohmic regime, since only under ohmic regime conditions is the value of the conductivity meaningful.