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Latent heat of vaporisation of water vs temperature

Latent heat of vaporisation in kJ/kg, from 0 to 100 °C. The chart and the table below are the same numbers; the table is the one you can copy.

Latent heat of vaporisation kJ/kg
Latent heat of vaporisation of water in kJ/kg, from 0 to 100 °C0 °C — 2,501 kJ/kg10 °C — 2,477 kJ/kg20 °C — 2,454 kJ/kg25 °C — 2,442 kJ/kg30 °C — 2,430 kJ/kg40 °C — 2,406 kJ/kg50 °C — 2,382 kJ/kg60 °C — 2,358 kJ/kg70 °C — 2,333 kJ/kg80 °C — 2,308 kJ/kg90 °C — 2,283 kJ/kg100 °C — 2,256 kJ/kg22602280230023202340236023802400242024402460248025000102030405060708090100Temperature (°C)Latent heat of vaporisation (kJ/kg)
Water — everything else at 20 °C (default)
Density998.2 kg/m³
Dynamic viscosity1.0016 mPa·s
Specific heat4.1844 kJ/(kg·K)
Thermal conductivity0.5984 W/(m·K)
Vapour pressure2.3296 kPa
Latent heat of vaporisation by temperature
Temperature (°C)Latent heat of vaporisation (kJ/kg)Row
02,500.9published
102,477.2published
202,453.5published
302,429.8published
402,406published
502,382published
602,357.7published
702,333published
802,308published
902,282.5published
1002,256.4published

Rows marked published land exactly on a source anchor and are the tabulated figure. The rest are this library’s interpolation between the two anchors either side — good enough to design with, and said out loud so you can decide that for yourself.

Kell (1975) density on ITS-90; IAPWS 2008 viscosity; IAPWS-95 for cp, k and hfg; Antoine for vapour pressure · validated 0 to 100 °C · interpolated between 12 published anchors (values held, not extrapolated, past the ends)