Steam systems are a part of almost every major industrial process today. Chemical processes are significant energy consumers in view of their large heating demands. The chemical industry uses steam for a wide variety of purposes, the most important being process heating, drying or concentrating, steam cracking, and distillation.
A software tool for calculating the thermodynamic and transport properties of the steam feeds used in the chemical plants is absolutely necessary.
Steam Calculator software has been developed in order to reach this goal.
Features
Represents a real support tool, easy to use and very efficient for performing some chemical engineering calculation
Is based on IAPWS-97, the current international standard for properties of water and steam
Is designed as an add-in package to standard spreadsheet applications (e.g. Microsoft Office Excel)
English and SI input and output units are supported
Is able to calculate 23 different properties: Temperature, Pressure, Enthalpy, Entropy, Quality, Density, Internal Energy, Isobaric Heat Capacity, Isochoric Heat Capacity, Specific volume, Speed of Sound, Thermal Conductivity, Viscosity, Surface Tension, Helmholtz Free Energy, Gibbs Free Energy, Compressibility Factor, Isothermal Compressibility, Joule-Thompson Coefficient, Isothermal Joule-Thompson, Thermal Expansion Coefficient, Prandtl Number, Static Dielectric Constant.
Using this tool the steam properties can be calculated for any region using two independent variables:
SCTP Calculates the steam properties at the specified Temperature and Pressure
SCTX Calculates the saturated steam properties at the specified Temperature and Quality
SCPX Calculates the saturated steam properties at the specified Pressure and Quality
SCPH Calculates the steam properties at the specified Pressure and Enthalpy
SCPS Calculates the steam properties at the specified Pressure and Entropy
