Fluids thermodynamics

In this analysis F will be constant but it could be described more accurately as a function of parameters influencing heat transfer in the condenser (temperature, pressure, flow rate, fluid thermodynamical, and thermophysical characteristics. . . ). 

Starling, Kenneth E., Fluid Thermodynamic Properties for Light Parol,-um Systems, Houston, TX Gulf Publishing Company, 1973. 

Starling, K. E., Fluid Thermodynamic F operties for Light Petroleum Systems, Gulf Pub. Co. (1973). 

Figure 11-26. Vapor pressure curve for ethylene refrigerant. (Used by permission Starling, K. E. Fluid Thermodynamic Properties for Light Petroleum Systems, 1973. Gulf Publishing Co., Houston, Texas. All rights reserved.)...

For completeness, we need to point out that the name density functional theory is not solely applied to the type of quantum mechanics calculations we have described in this chapter. The idea of casting problems using functionals of density has also been used in the classical theory of fluid thermodynamics. In this case, the density of interest is the fluid density not the electron density, and the basic equation of interest is not the Schrodinger equation. Realizing that these two distinct scientific communities use the same name for their methods may save you some confusion if you find yourself in a seminar by a researcher from the other community. 

A good source if you want to learn about the fluid thermodynamics version of DFT is ... 

The generic phase-diagram relationships illustrated in Figs. 7.7 and 7.8 underlie all binary fluid thermodynamics. We first focus on the P-x aspects of real and ideal solutions (Sections 7.3.1-7.3.3), then on the complementary T-x aspects (Sections 7.3.4 and 7.3.5),... 

Starling, K.E. Fluid Thermodynamic Properties for Light Hydrocarbon Systems, Gulf Publishing Co., Houston (1973). 

Finding Work of Compression with a Thermodynamic Chart Hydrogen sulfide is to be compressed from 100°F and atmospheric pressure to SOpsig. The isentropic efficiency is 0.70. A pressure-enthalpy chart is taken from Starling (Fluid Thermodynamic Properties for Light Petroleum Systems, Gulf, Houston, TX, 1973). The work and the complete thermodynamic conditions for the process will be found. 

This chapter deals with critical phenomena in simple ionic fluids. Prototypical ionic fluids, in the sense considered here, are molten salts and electrolyte solutions. Ionic states occur, however, in many other systems as well we quote, for example, metallic fluids or solutions of complex particles such as charged macromolecules, colloids, or micelles. Although for simple atomic and molecular fluids thermodynamic anomalies near critical points have been extensively studied for a century now [1], for a long time the work on ionic fluids remained scarce [2, 3]. Reviewing the rudimentary information available in 1990, Pitzer [4] noted fundamental differences in critical behavior between ionic and nonionic fluids. 

Lemmon, E.W., McLinden, M.O., and Huber, M.L., REFPROP, Reference Fluid Thermodynamic and Transport Properties, NIST Standard Reference Database 23, Version 7, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 2002. 

The values in Tables 2-23 to 2-26 were generated from the NIST REFPROP software (Lemmon, E. W, McLinden, M. O., and Huber, M. L., NIST Standard Reference Database 23 Reference Fluid Thermodynamic and Transport Properties—REFPROP, Version 7.0, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Standard Reference Data Program, Gaithersburg, Md., 2002). The primary source for the properties of aqueous ammonia mixtures is R. Tillner-Roth and D. G. Friend, A Helmholtz Free Energy Formulation of the Thermodynamic Properties of the Mixture Water + Ammonia, /, Phys. Chem. Ref. Data 27 63-96(1998). 

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