A computer program in Visual Basic 6.0 is written to calculate steam tables for pure water up to 800oC and 1400 bar. The steam tables are created as a DLL (Dynamic Link Library) object with properties: temperature, pressure, specific volume, enthalpy and entropy for liquid and vapor phases, and liquidvapor state. The steam tables can be incorporated in any computer program on the Windows platfo...

probable poor cohesion. The upper surface might be slightly indurated [2]. The MER rover may have the opportunity to examine this deposit, which occurs near the center of the Gusev landing ellipse. The deposition of other airfall units in the Sinus Meridiani region coincides with increased erosional activity there, suggesting a role for airfall deposits in the delivery or mobilization of volati...

The hallmark of ionic liquids lies in their negligible vapor pressure. This ultralow vapor pressure makes it difficult to conduct the direct spectroscopic measurement of ionic-liquid vapors. In fact, there have been no electronic spectroscopic data currently available for ionic-liquid vapors. This deficiency significantly hampers the fundamental understanding of the unique molecular structures ...

We report a newly developed self-contained interface for high-vapor pressure liquid surfaces to vacuum-based analytical instruments. It requires no wires or tubing connections to the outside of the instrument and uses a microfluidic channel with a 3 μm diameter window into the flowing fluid beneath it. This window supports the liquid against the vacuum by the liquid's surface tension and limits...

The size distributions and geometries of vapor clusters equilibrated with methanol-ethanol (Me-Et) liquid mixtures were recently studied by vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) laser time-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometry and density functional theory (DFT) calculations (Liu, Y.; Consta, S.; Ogeer, F.; Shi, Y. J.; Lipson, R. H. Can. J. Chem. 2007, 85, 843-852). On the basis of the mass spectra recorded, it...

We examine a model system to study the effect of pressure on the surface tension of a vapor-liquid interface. The system is a two-component mixture of spheres interacting with the square-well (A-A) and hard-sphere (B-B) potentials and with unlike (A-B) interactions ranging (for different cases) from hard sphere to strongly attractive square well. The bulk-phase and interfacial properties are me...

The problem of high-frequency acoustic emission generated by a spherical hot liquid drop in a cool ambient liquid (water) is considered analytically. It is assumed that the acoustic emission is generated by the motion of the vapor cold liquid interface, which is described by the Rayleigh equation for a spherical bubble. It is also assumed that the linear relationship between the saturated press...

We report on a concept for vapor sensing with the quartz crystal microbalance where the vapor phase is absorbed into small droplets of an ionic liquid. The liquid is contained in the pores of a nanoporous alumina layer, created on the front electrode of the quartz crystal by anodization. Ionic liquids are attractive for vapor sensing because--being liquids--they equilibrate very fast, while at ...

The simplified perturbed chain statistical associating fluid theory (sPC-SAFT) Equation of State (EOS) was proposed to describe the thermodynamic properties of pure ionic liquids (ILs). A set of sPC-SAFT parameters for 2 ILs was obtained by fitting the experimental liquid densities data over a wide range of temperature at atmospheric pressure. Good agreement with experimental density data was o...