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Add a couple of sentences towards different mixture types
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fwitte committed Jan 21, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -60,14 +60,21 @@ Incompressible fluids
If you are looking for heat transfer fluids, the list of incompressible
`fluids <http://www.coolprop.org/fluid_properties/Incompressibles.html>`__
might be interesting for you. In contrast to the pure fluids, the properties
cover liquid state only. TESPy supports using pure incompressibles as well as
the predefined mixtures.
cover liquid state only.

Fluid mixtures
++++++++++++++
CoolProp provides a back end for predefined mixtures, which is rather instable
using HEOS. If you want to use the mixture feature of CoolProp we recommend
using the REFPROP back end instead.
TESPy provides suppport for three types of mixtures:

- ideal: Mixtures for gases only.
- ideal-cond: Mixture for gases with condensation calculation for water share.
- incompressible: Mixtures for incompressible fluids.

Furthermore, CoolProp provides a back end for predefined mixtures, which is
rather instable using HEOS. Using the CoolProp mixture back-end is not tested,
reach out if you would like to support us in adopting the TESPy implementation.
In general, to use the mixture feature of CoolProp we recommend using the
REFPROP back end instead of HEOS.

Using other engines
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