Geothermal Power Plants, 3rd Edition

APPENDIX H

REFPROP Tutorial with Application to Geothermal Binary Cycles

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H.1 Introduction

REFPROP – Reference Fluid Thermodynamic and Transport Properties – is a product of the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) [1]. It is a very accurate and comprehensive software program that yields all thermophysical properties of interest to scientists and engineers and covers a very large number of pure substances and predefined mixtures. Users can also define mixtures of particular interest ...