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ASTM Selected Technical Papers
Cryogens and Gases: Testing Methods and Standards Development
By
RW Vance
RW Vance
1
Past president
,
Cryogenic Society of America
,
Los Angeles, Calif.
;
symposium general chairman
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ISBN-10:
0-8031-4489-X
ISBN:
978-0-8031-4489-7
No. of Pages:
84
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1520/STP537-EB
Publisher:
ASTM International
Publication date:
1973
eBook Chapter

Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of Cryogenic Propellants and Related Fluids

By
VJ Johnson
VJ Johnson
1
Staff consultant and former director
, Cryogenic Data Center,
National Bureau of Standards
,
Boulder, Colo. 80302
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  • Published:
    1973

Significant advances have been made in recent years in the quality and range of thermophysical data for the cryogenic propellants, pressurants, and inertants. These advances have resulted from improved evaluation and compilation techniques coupled with better and more extensive experimental data and from a better theoretical understanding of the physical properties of gases. A review of recently completed and current data compilation projects for helium, hydrogen, argon, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, and methane will be given as well as recommended references for thermodynamic and transport property data tables for these fluids. Modern techniques in the plotting of thermodynamic charts from tabular data (or from functions such as the equation of state) have greatly improved their precision and value. A list of such charts is included.

Keywords:
argon, bibliographies, compiliers, evaluation, cryogenics, measurement, fluorine, helium, hydrogen, methane, nitrogen, oxygen, fluid properties, reviewing, charts, thermodynamic properties, transport properties

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