ASME International Steam Tables for Industrial Use

Book excerpt: Continuing the tradition of the ASME Steam Tables that dates back to 1967, ASME International Steam Tables for Industrial Use places at your fingertips the thermodynamic, transport, and other properties of water and steam in a handy, printed soft cover format. Based on the International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam- Industrial Formulation 1997 (IAPWS- IF97), this new book complements the software, ASME Steam Properties for Industrial Use, published in January 1999. Together, these important references are the international standard for power plant and industrial calculations, used in conjunction with contract commitments. The tables have been calculated, and reproduce values from, the computer software. The tables have fewer points than in previous editions of the Steam Tables, and they are intended for estimation and ready reference rather than for serious design and precise interpolation. This volume was published on behalf of the ASME Research and Technology Committee on Water and Steam in Thermal Systems, Subcommittee on Properties of Steam.