Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Properties of Steam, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986
Moscow, USSR 3-7 September 1984 Volume 1

The physical properties of water and steam have been the subject of lhorough investigation for a long time. It can, on the one hand, be due to the important role of this substance in the processes that take place in nature and, on the .other hand, due to its wide industrial use. Steam is the most important working substance used in conventional and nuc­ lear power plants, in chemical engineering and other fields of industry. The variety of practical use of water and steam generates a need for knowing their thermodynamic, transport, electrical, and other properties over a ·very wide range of temperatures and pressures. International Conferences on the Properties of Steam, which have taken place since 1929, have the aim to promote wide exchange of the results of theoretical and experimental studies into the properties of ordinary and heavy water in a11 phase states. In the course of last decade f.he investigation oC physical and chemical properties of concentrated and dilute aqueous solutions that are of interest in the first place from the point of view of power play an important part in these studies.

Generalities.- Opening and Welcoming Addresses.- Activities of the International Association for the Properties of Steam Between 1979 and 1984.- Study on Thermophysical Properties of Working Media and Their Role in Power Engineering.- The Role of Computers in the Generation and Dissemination of Technical Data.- Equilibrium Properties.- What Power Industry Expects of Steam Research.- Proposal of the New Skeleton Tables for the Thermodynamic Properties of Water and Steam.- Comparison of HGK Equation with Experimental Data.- Selected Properties of Water Substance in 3-Dimensional Representation with Possible Applications.- Equation of State for Ordinary Water in the Fluid State from the Saturation Line to the Melting Line at Temperatures from—45 to 300 °C and in the Region from 0.1 to 20 GPa Between 300 and 2000° C.- A Unified Equation of State for H2O.- Experimental Study of the PVT-Relationship of Water in the Range of Temperatures up to 400 K.- New Formulation of the Fluid State Properties Applied to PVT-Data of H2O.- A Survey of High Accuracy Absolute Density Measurements.- The Present State of the Absolute Measurement of Density of Water at National Research Laboratory of Metrology.- Thermodynamic Values Near the Critical Point of Water.- Experimental Study of the PVT -Properties of Water in the Critical Region.- Caloric Equation of State for Water and Steam Near the Liquid-Gas Critical Point.- Correlation Equation for the Vapour Pressure and for the Orthobaric Densities of Water Substance.- Consistent Equations for the Co-existence Line of Ordinary Water and Proposal for an Equation of State for the Single Phase.- The Analytical Representation of Equilibrium-State Behaviour of Wet Steam in the Range from 20 to 250°C.- Phase-Change Behaviour of Water in Nonequilibrium Processes.- Kinetic Limit of Supersaturated Water. The Spinodal of Water.- Spontaneous Condensation in Real Steam.- A Function Type Computer Program Package for Thermophysical Properties.- Representation of Data on Thermodynamic Properties of Substances for Computerized Calculation of Technical Processes.- Method of Transformation of Analytical Functions for Calculation of Thermophysical Properties of Steam.- Investigation of the Thermal Pressure Coefficient of Water.- Thermodynamic Values in the Vicinity of the Specific Volume Anomaly for Water.- Equations of State and Joule-Thomson Coefficient.- Estimation of the Thermodynamic Properties of Fluid T2O in a Wide Range of Temperature and Pressure.- Universal Behaviour of Pure Fluids Near Their Critical Point.- Velocity of Sound in Water at High Pressure and Temperature.- Towards Fully Non-Empirical Understanding of Water-Vapour Non-Ideality: Quantum-Chemical Evaluation of Equilibrium Thermodynamics and Kinetics of the Water Dimer and of the Second Virial Coefficient of Steam.- Transport Properties.- Transport Properties of Fluids Near Critical Points.- On the Viscosity of Water Under Elevated Pressure.- Representation of the Viscosity of Water in Terms of Pressure and Temperature.- Experimental Investigation of Heavy Water Viscosity in Critical Region.- New Measurements of the Viscosity of H2O-D2O Mixtures Over the Full Range of Compositions and from 25–220°C and 0.1–30 MPa.- A Representative Equation for the Viscosity of Light and Heavy Water and Their Mixtures.- The Scaled Equation for Thermal Conductivity of Steam in a Broad Vicinity of the Critical Point.- On Estimation of Radiation Correction in Determining Thermal Conductivity of Steam.- Influence of Thermal Accommodation on the Determination of Thermal Conductivity of H2O and D2O Vapours.- Isotopic Effect on the Transport Properties of Gaseous H2O and Its Isotopes at High Temperatures.- Thermal Conductivity Coefficient of Water Below Room Temperature at High Pressure.- The Thermal Conductivity of Heavy Water at High Pressure and High Temperature.- Author Index.