Basic Principles and Calculations in Process Technology

Index

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A. See Area, calculating

Absolute pressure

Boyle’s Law, 94–96

ideal gas law, 98–99, 101

measuring in psia, 77–78

plotting enthalpy for steam water, 211

varying friction forces in piping system causing, 405

volume of gas inversely proportional to, 113

Absolute temperature

Carnot heat-engine representation, 172–174

Charles’s Law, 96–97, 204

compressible fluid flow, 412

effect of temperature, 237–238

entropy, 124, 140

Gibbs free energy, 161

ideal gas law, 98–103, 106–107

overview of, 97–98

Pitzer acentric factor, 114–115

radiation proportional to, 439–440, 442, 445, 448

real gases, 108–109

scales used for calculating, 58–59, 61

volume of gas proportional to, 113

Absolute zero

in absolute temperature, 97–98

in Charles’s Law, 97

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