Fluid Property evaluation (general)
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carbatpy supports property evaluations via REFPROP (NIST) and TREND (RUB).
Both must be installed locally. Transport properties for mixtures are available only via REFPROP.

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   :maxdepth: 1
   :caption: Jupyter-notebook

   examples/use_fluid_props
   examples/custom_fluid_example

Up-to-date examples are maintained in the Jupyter notebooks:

- :download:`use_fluid_props.ipynb <../src/carbatpy/examples/use_fluid_props.ipynb>`
- :download:`custom_fluid_example.ipynb <../src/carbatpy/examples/custom_fluid_example.ipynb>`

References
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Lemmon, E. W.; Bell, I. H.; Huber, M. L.; McLinden, M. O. (2018):
*NIST Standard Reference Database 23: Reference Fluid Thermodynamic and Transport Properties (REFPROP), Version 10.0.*
National Institute of Standards and Technology.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18434/T4/1502528
URL: https://www.nist.gov/srd/refprop


Span, R.; Beckmüller, R.; Buchenfeld, J.; Fiedler, F.; Jäger, A.; Mickoleit, E.; Neumann,
T.; Nguyen, T.-T.-G.; Pohl, S. M.; Rath, S.; Sabozin, F.; Semrau, B.; Thol, M. (2025):
*TREND. Thermodynamic Reference and Engineering Data 6.0.*
Lehrstuhl für Thermodynamik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.