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Fei Duan1, Ian Thompson, C A Ward
1Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada M5S 3G8.
Abstract:
We report a new method for determining the saturation vapor pressure, Ps(T), of water at conditions below its triple point. Ps(T) appears as a parameter in the statistical rate theory (SRT) expression for the net evaporation flux. We use measurements of the interfacial conditions during steady-state evaporation and condensation experiments and SRT to determine the values of Ps(T) from 50 different experiments over a range of interfacial conditions. From these values of Ps(T), we develop an analytical expression and from it calculate the liquid-vapor latent heat, Llv(T), and the constant pressure specific heat, cp(L)(T). The calculated values of these properties are compared with those obtained from independent measurements. This comparison indicates the SRT expressions for Llv(T) and cp(L)(T) are consistent with the measurements over a range of temperatures.
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