What is IAPWS 95?
What is IAPWS?
IAPWS is an acronym for International Association for the Properties of Water & Steam. To know more about IAPWS click here.
Useful thermodynamic link is also Thermodynamics Research Laboratory of University of Illinois at Chicago. Where you can see a link to the mirror of this my site.
IAPWS 95
In 1995 IAPWS accepted new formulation for description of Water & Steam thermodynamic properties.
So, all steam tables, formulations etc. issued before 1995 are obsolete now (for example: ASME formulations
used for the 5th Edition ASME Steam Tables - NBS/NRC Steam Tables by Lester Haar, John S. Gallagher and George S. Kell Hemisphere Publishing Corporation, 1984 ISBN 0-89116-353-0; The 1967 IFC Formulation For Industrial Use & so on).Results of calculations with these obsolete formulations may differ heavily from those with IAPWS 95, especially for thermodynamic derivatives.
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