Physical Chemistry of Aqueous Systems: Meeting the Needs of Industry

ISBN Print: 978-1-56700-034-4

ISBN Online: 978-1-56700-445-8

SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS OF IAPWS TO THE POWER INDUSTRY, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

DOI: 10.1615/ICPWS-1994.50
pages 1-12

Аннотация

The lines are traced from the early international cooperation necessary for efficient design of, and global trade in turbines, boilers and heat exchangers for power generation, to the past and current forms this cooperation assumes in the International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam (IAPWS). The mutually enriching interaction of IAPWS and the scientific world will be illustrated by several examples, taken from the fields of critical phenomena, molecular simulation, and supercritical fluids. The acceptance of IAPWS formulations of steam and water properties as de facto world standards for many other applications besides power generation is a consequence of IAPWS's firm commitment to excellence. IAPWS's branching out to impure water and steam, necessitated by the threat impurities pose to the components of power plants, has led to fruitful interactions with aqueous physical chemistry and geochemistry, and may help reach a new synthesis in the science and engineering of reactive supercritical fluid mixtures.