Minutes from 2012 IAPWS Meeting


The 2012 annual meeting of the Executive Committee and Working groups of the International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam (IAPWS) was held in Boulder, Colorado, USA, September 30 to October 5, 2012.

The complete minutes, including attachments are contained in a single PDF document.


In addition, as a convenience, we have broken the Minutes into several smaller documents, as follows:

Minutes of Executive Committee

Agenda, meeting schedule [Attachments 1-3 to Executive Committee minutes]

Minutes (with attachments) of individual Working Groups
TPWS and SCSW (Thermophysical Properties of Water and Steam together with Subcommittee on Seawater) [Attachment 4]
IRS (Industrial Requirements and Solutions) [Attachment 5]
PCAS (Physical Chemistry of Aqueous Systems) [Attachment 6]
PCC (Power Cycle Chemistry) [Attachment 7]

Proposed IAPWS International Collaboration [Attachment 8]

Proposed IAPWS International Collaboration [Attachment 9]

While not an official part of the Minutes, a report on work done under a previously approved International Collaborations was received on the topic of Towards a supercooled water guideline (V. Holten et al.)

Meeting Highlights [Attachment 10]

Reports on Research in Member Countries [Attachments 11-17]

List of Participants [Attachment 18]


As part of the meeting, on Wednesday October 3 a Symposium was held on "The Energy-Water Nexus: Status and Prospectus". The Symposium presentations are available as PDF files.

Three versions of the conference photo are available here and here and here.

This page updated October 17, 2012


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