GUI

The database, a large csv file, and can be incredibly difficult to navigate and extract the desired information. Therefore, a graphical user interface (GUI) was developed to allow user’s of the database to more easily explore, calculate and extract thermophysical properties of salts present in the database.  The GUI is developed in python, but is backed by Saline, a c++ API.

The GUI allows the user to perform a wide variety of actions including:

• Browse or search for salts present in the database. All MSTDB-TP data (empirical constants, temperature ranges, and references) can be viewed.
• Calculate or plot thermophysical properties for selected salts at measured or user specified temperatures for density, viscosity, thermal conductivity, and heat capacity.
• Use Redlich-Kister interpolation schemes to estimate both density and viscosity using MSTDB-TP data, or ideal mixing in absence of experimental data
• Estimated data can be plotted in ternary or binary plots in relevant melting conditions backed by Gibbs energy minimization models calculated using MSTDB-TC data (add hyperlink to MSTDB-TC).

A beta version of the MSTDB-TP GUI is available in the Package Registry of the MSTDB-TP Gitlab project. Please contact [email protected] for more information regarding the GUI.