Friday, March 23, 2012

Steamy

It may not seem that hot, but steam tables are essential for modeling Rankine cycles like steam turbines and the boilers that provide steam like solar thermal. But properties are not enough, you need thermodynamic derivatives as well. The IAPWS provides correlations for water and steam properties and derivatives which I have coded in MATLAB for your use. You can find them on Github.

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