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Knowledge of thermodynamic properties of involved fluids is one of the fundamentals of common calculations in engineering applications and in the natural sciences. However, the requirements with respect to both the accuracy and the availability of thermodynamic property data strongly depend on the application. Where only few properties are needed at single states, property tables are still a common source of information. Available tables range from very general compilations such as the VDI-Wärmeatlas (Schlünder et al., 1997) to compilations for a certain group of substances (see for instance Tillner-Roth et al. (1998) for refrigerants or Jacobsen et al. (1997) for cryogenic fluids) to internationally agreed reference tables for single substances (see for instance Wagner and de Reuck (1996) for methane or Wagner and Kruse (1998) for water). In practical use, such tables are being more and more replaced by convenient interactive programs which are executable on common personal computers (see for example Span et al., 1995a; Wagner et al., 2000b; Friend and Huber, 1994).
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Span, R. (2000). Introduction. In: Multiparameter Equations of State. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04092-8_1
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