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Compressibility Factor and Compressibility Charts | Thermodynamics | (Solved examples)

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Learn how to read a compressibility chart, how to figure out the compressibility factor, what reduced pressure, reduced temperature, and pseudo reduced specific volume is. We also solve a few problems step by step to learn how to use a compressibility chart.

Steam Table Calculator: https://www.spiraxsarco.com/resources-and-design-tools/steam-tables/superheated-steam-region

🔸 Property Tables: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKbjRG4Y-HM
🔸 Ideal Gas Equation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmewd-vv12Y

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Intro (00:00)
Determine the specific volume of superheated water vapor (02:22)
Saturated water vapor at 350°C is heated at constant pressure (04:56)
Carbon dioxide gas enters a pipe at 3 MPa and 500 K (09:26)

Books used:
📘Çengel Yunus A. and M. A. Boles, Thermodynamics: an engineering approach. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education, 2016.
📘C. Borgnakke and R. E. Sonntag, Fundamentals of thermodynamics. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2019.