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@Gas 3.0
@Gas is a member of Techware’s family of software packages
bringing accurate thermodynamic properties of fluids to many popular
Windows programs. @Gas
provides thermodynamic properties and transport properties of flue gases
and moist air. The @Gas
package includes: DeskTop Gas, an advanced interactive gas properties
calculator; a dynamic link library (DLL) of gas property functions; and
various add-ins which link the functions to Windows applications.
The add-ins allow you to use the functions as if they were built-in
to Microsoft Excel, Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows and
MathSoft Mathcad. Programmers
can call the functions in the dynamic link library directly from many
Windows programming languages
such as Microsoft Visual BASIC, Microsoft Visual C++ for Windows
and Microsoft Access.
@Gas accounts for the
following gases; nitrogen (N2), oxygen (O2), argon (Ar),
carbon dioxide (CO2), and water vapor (H2O). These
gases account for 99.997% of the volumetric composition of standard air
and also account for better than 99.9% of most combustion gases.
The thermodynamic functions are calculated for mixtures of all five
gases using an accurate third order virial equation of state.
The general form of the equation of state and the derived
thermodynamic properties can be found in many publications dealing with
gas properties. The specific
form of the equations, the data correlation and the computational
methodology have been developed by Techware.
The functions have been tested against published data and show
excellent agreement. A description
of the
theoretical basis and accuracy is included with the package.
All
types of calculations involving flue gas are greatly simplified with the
@Gas functions.
The functions are extremely useful in predicting the performance of
waste heat boilers, fossil fuel fired steam generators, heat exchangers,
air compressors and gas turbines.
You can design equipment right on your favorite spreadsheet without
having to look up thermodynamic properties from tables or charts.
@Gas is going to change the way you solve many problems involving
moist air and flue gases!
Your results will be more accurate because you won’t have to read
data from charts or interpolate from tables, and you won’t have to make
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@AGas 3.0 has added many new
features over the previous version, @Gas 2.0. These include
the following:
 | Extends the temperature range upwards from 1300 °K,(1880
°F) to 2000 °K, (3140 °F) and downwards from 273.16 °K,(32.018
°F) to 180 °K, (-135.67 °F). |
| Adds transport property functions:
 | GasPTWM, which calculates dynamic viscosity given pressure,
temperature and humidity ratio. |
| GasPTWK, which calculates thermal conductivity given pressure,
temperature and humidity ratio. |
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| Includes DeskTop Gas, an
advanced gas property calculator with many improved features over the
previous gas property calculator. |
| Adds new unit sets including, EngG using psig for pressure instead of
psia, SIF, which uses the formal SI units, MPa for pressure instead of
bar and °K for temperature, instead of °C, SIK using kPa instead of
bar for pressure, MET using the calorie instead of the joule for
energy and METF using kg/cm2 for pressure instead of
bar. |
| Improved installation program that allows distribution over the web. |
| Dropped support for Quattro Pro and 16-bit applications. |
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| Seamlessly
extends your spreadsheet program's set of built-in functions. |
| Equations
based on virial equation of state using second and third order mixing
coefficients.
No perfect gas assumptions. |
| Accuracy
fully documented. |
| Supports
many combinations of input data. |
| Uses
English, SI and metric unit sets. |
| Allows
pressures up to 50 bar
(725 psia) and temperatures from 180 °K (-135.67 °F) to 2000 °K
(3140 °F). |
| Calculates
specific volume, enthalpy, entropy, specific heat, viscosity and
thermal conductivity. |
| Calculates
humidity ratio, molecular weight, amount of condensation and dew
point. |
| Express
moisture as humidity ratio, mole fraction or mass fraction. |
| Express
results on wet or dry basis. |
The @Gas package includes various add-ins which link
the functions to many popular Windows applications. Add-ins
(32-bit) are included for Microsoft Excel versions for Office 95, Office 97, Office 2000 and Office
XP, Lotus 1-2-3
97 and 1-2-3 Millennium (Rel 9.0) and MathSoft Mathcad Plus
Versions 6, 7 and 8.
No programming is required to use the @Gas functions
with any of these applications. Just follow a few simple steps to load the
add-in, and from then on, the functions will be available every time you
start the application. You use the functions just like any of the built-in
functions. The functions can be used in any spreadsheet formula and any
argument to the functions can be a number, a formula or a cell reference.
All of the gas property functions are contained in a Windows Dynamic
Link Library (DLL). The @Gas package includes a 32-bit
version of the DLL which supports
applications designed for Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000 and XP. Function prototypes and
LIB files are included in the package to support Microsoft C/C++ compilers. Declaration files are included to facilitate programming
with Microsoft Visual Basic or Microsoft Access.
The following table lists all of the @Gas functions
currently available.
| Function(InputArguments) |
Output Value |
| GasPTXV(P,T,N2,O2,Ar,CO2,H2O,unit) |
Specific Volume |
| GasPVXT((P,V,N2,O2,Ar,CO2,H2O,unit) |
Temperature |
| GasTVXP(T,V,N2,O2,Ar,CO2,H2O,unit) |
Pressure |
| GasXW(N2,O2,Ar,CO2,H2O,unit) |
Humidity Ratio |
| GasPTXW(P,T,N2,O2,Ar,CO2,H2O,unit) |
Saturated Humidity Ratio |
| GasPXD(P,N2,O2,Ar,CO2,H2O,unit) |
Dew Point Temperature |
| GasPTXH(P,T,N2,O2,Ar,CO2,H2O,unit) |
Specific Enthalpy |
| GasPTXHS(P,T,N2,O2,Ar,CO2,H2O,unit) |
Saturated Specific Enthalpy |
| GasPHXT(P,H,N2,O2,Ar,CO2,H2O,unit) |
Temperature |
| GasPTXS(P,T,N2,O2,Ar,CO2,H2O,unit) |
Specific Entropy |
| GasPTXSS(P,T,N2,O2,Ar,CO2,H2O,unit) |
Saturated Specific Entropy |
| GasPSXT(P,S,N2,O2,Ar,CO2,H2O,unit) |
Temperature |
| GasPTXC(P,T,N2,O2,Ar,CO2,H2O,unit) |
Specific Heat (constant pressure) |
| GasPTXM(P,T,N2,O2,Ar,CO2,H2O,unit) |
Dynamic Viscosity |
| GasPTXK(P,T,N2,O2,Ar,CO2,H2O,unit) |
Thermal Conductivity |
| GasPTXL(P,T,N2,O2,Ar,CO2,H2O,unit) |
Water Condensed |
| GasXMW(N2,O2,Ar,CO2,H2O,unit) |
Molecular Weight |
| GasWX(N2,O2,Ar,CO2,H2O,unit) |
Water Mole Fraction |
| GasVapPT(Pvap,unit) |
Saturation Temperature of Water |
| GasVapTP(T,unit) |
Saturation Pressure of Water |
| GasCondPTH(P,T,unit) |
Enthalpy of Compressed Liquid Water |
| GasCondPTS(P,T,unit) |
Entropy of Compressed Liquid Water |
- Note:
- P = Pressure
- T = Temperature
- H = Enthalpy
- S = Entropy
- V = Specific Volume
- Pvap = Water vapor pressure
- N2,O2,Ar,CO2,H2O
= gas composition
- unit = Unit Set
The unit set argument selects one of the basis unit sets, selects
composition based on either mole fractions or mass fractions, selects
water vapor input as either fraction of mixture or humidity ratio, selects
reference point for enthalpy and entropy as either absolute zero or same
as ASHRAE conditions for dry air, and selects output value as either per
mass wet gas or per mass dry gas.
When calling the functions from 1-2-3, the function name is preceeded
by the "@" character, eg.
@GASPTXH(P,T,N2,O2,Ar,CO2,H2O,unit)
The @Gas package includes DeskTop Gas, a handy interactive
gas property calculator which runs in its own window. The calculator image
below illustrates some of its features including flexible unit selection
and an intuitive, standard Windows user interface. DeskTop Gas is an ideal
replacement for your gas tables and it calculates the properties at the
exact point you desire so there is no need for interpolation. More
importantly, results from @Gas are more accurate than
looking up gas properties in tables because the model used for @Gas
takes into consideration the effects of compressibility and
mixing.
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