Comparison between Vukalovich Tables and IAPWS-IF97 Model for Water and Steam Parameters


Abstract in English

The main objective of this paper is to verify the difference between water - steam properties obtained from Vukalovich tables (1940) and these obtained by IAPWS-IF97 model. Vukalovich tables are used as the main reference at Damascus University – Faculty of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering – to acquire water and steam parameters used for vapor power cycles (Rankine Cycle). The last revised release on IAPWS-IF97 (International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam of the Industrial Formulation 1997) was in 2012. IAPWS members are United States of American, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Britain, Ireland, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Switzerland (associate member) Japan, and Russia.

References used

IAPWS, 2009, “Revised Release on the IAPWS Formulation 1995 for the Thermodynamics Properties of Ordinary Water Substance for General and Scientific Use,” Doorwerth, the Netherlands
Kretzschmar, H., J., Knobloch, K., 2008, “Supplementary Backward Equations for the Industrial Formulation IAPWS-IF97 of Water and Steam for Fast Calculations of Heat Cycles, Boilers, and Steam Turbines,” 14th International Conference
Kalova, J., Mares, R., 2008, “Equations for the Thermodynamic Properties at the Saturation Line in the Supercooled Water Region,” ICPWS XV, Berlin

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