Water density calculation given pressure and temperature.

Does anyone have a function block or method to calculate density of water given a presssure and temperature?  The STM function block is only valid for superheated and saturated steam, not liquid water.

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  • Water density in the temperatures 0°C - 100°C

    Temperature oC

    Density g/cm3

    Temperature oC

    Density g/cm3

    0

    0,99984

    20

    0,99820

    1

    0,99990

     

     

    2

    0,99994

    22

    0,99778

    3

    0,99996

     

     

    4

    0,999973

    24

    0,99730

    5

    0,99996

     

     

    6

    0,99994

    26

    0,99679

    7

    0,99990

     

     

    8

    0,99985

    28

    0,99624

    9

    0,99978

     

     

    10

    0,99970

    30

    0,99565

    11

    0,99960

    35

    0,99404

    12

    0,99950

    40

    0,99222

    13

    0,99938

    45

    0,99022

    14

    0,99924

    50

    0,98805

    15

    0,99910

    60

    0,98322

    16

    0,99894

    70

    0,97779

    17

    0,99877

    80

    0,97181

    18

    0,99860

    90

    0,96532

    19

    0,99841

    100

    0,95836

    Niklas Flykt 

    Klinkmann Oy

    Key Account Manager safety products

    nikfly@gmail.com

  • In reply to Niklas Flykt:

    These laws would be useful if I needed equations relating to gases.  My original request is for a function block for water.  I have used Rockwell PPax and they have a function block using Steam tables to determine properties for conditions including water phase, saturated steam and superheated steam.  DeltaV has a PStm function block but this does not provide values for liquid phases.  My nominal operating conditions will be 80 deg C and 1 Mpa, but can vary any where up to 1.2Mpa and above ambient temperature.

  • In reply to ktyang:

    "These laws would be useful if I needed equations relating to gases."some of  these laws also apply to liquids.

    Could you give some more information about the process you want to measure.

    The weight(mass) of the water stays the same, only the volume changes when the temperature changes.

    If you use a PD measurement then you will get the correction automaticly ?

    If you use height measurement then it´s and other thing..

    Niklas Flykt 

    Klinkmann Oy

    Key Account Manager safety products

    nikfly@gmail.com

  • I don’t know the application that spawned the original request, but happened on the same need for water density, recently.  It was a waste heat steam generator application and we had to provide 3 element steam drum level control.  There is more than one way to configure this, of course, but we were essentially using feed forward to the level controller PID loop effectively ratioing boiler feedwater volumetric flow (GPM) to produced steam mass flow (KPPH).  We had to provide a feed forward gain and it depends on the density of the boiler feedwater.  In our case the temperature doesn’t vary enough to warrant dynamically updating the FF gain, but in some applications it might.
     
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    Lou Heavner
     
     
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    From: Niklas Flykt [mailto:bounce-nikfly@community.emerson.com]
    Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 2:44 AM
    To: DeltaV@community.emerson.com
    Subject: RE: [EE365 DeltaV Track] Water density calculation given pressure and temperature.
     

    "These laws would be useful if I needed equations relating to gases."some of  these laws also apply to liquids.

    Could you give some more information about the process you want to measure.

    The weight(mass) of the water stays the same, only the volume changes when the temperature changes.

    If you use a PD measurement then you will get the correction automaticly ?

    If you use height measurement then it´s and other thing..