Introduction

The casual user has no need to explicitly call this module.

.constants contains physical constants required by Pytzer.

Universal constants

Variable Description Value Unit Source
Mw Molar mass of water 0.018015 kg·mol−1 PubChem
R Universal gas constant 8.3144598 J·mol−1·K−1 CODATA
F Faraday constant 96485.33289 C·mol−1 CODATA
NA Avogadro's constant 6.0221367×1023 mol−1  

Pitzer model parameters

Variable Description Value Unit Source
b b parameter 1.2 kg1/2·mol−1/2 Pitzer (1991)

Unit conversion factors

Variable Description Value Unit
cal2J Energy: calories per Joule 4.184 cal·J−1
Patm_bar Pressure: atmosphere to bar 1.01325 bar·atm−1
atm2Pa Pressure: atmosphere to Pascal 101325 Pa·atm−1
Torr2Pa Pressure: Torr to Pascal atm2Pa / 760 Pa·Torr−1
mmHg2Pa Pressure: mmHg to Pascal 133.322387415 Pa·mmHg−1