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Understanding Psychrometry Basics

The document outlines concepts related to humid air and psychrometry. It discusses properties of humid air such as relative humidity and water content. It also covers the psychrometer and its use of wet and dry bulb temperatures. The document provides examples of calculating humidity ratio, enthalpy, dew point, and air mass flow rate using parameters of indoor air temperature, relative humidity, heat gains, and water production.

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Understanding Psychrometry Basics

The document outlines concepts related to humid air and psychrometry. It discusses properties of humid air such as relative humidity and water content. It also covers the psychrometer and its use of wet and dry bulb temperatures. The document provides examples of calculating humidity ratio, enthalpy, dew point, and air mass flow rate using parameters of indoor air temperature, relative humidity, heat gains, and water production.

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ByZelfikar Jemal (MSc.

InSustainableEnergyEngineering)

Outlines: Introduction&Propertiesofhumidair
(Relativehumidity,Watercontent,Enthalpyandcharts)

Dewpoint Dew point ThePsychrometer (wetanddrybulbtemperature) y ( y p ) Heatandmassbalances Mixingoftwoairstreamsofdifferentproperties

Introduction: Toestablishpropercomfortconditionwithinabuilding To establish proper comfort condition within a building space,YouMustconsider Theairtemperature Theamountofwatervaporintheair

So,WhatisPsychrometry ??

Propertiesofhumidair: H id air can b said t b a mixture of Humid i be id to be i t f two ideal gases dry air (d.a.) and water vapor. The dry air can be treated as one component Dry air can be assumed to consist of:

Mean molecular weight of dry air, M = 29 kg/kmol

Amount of water vapor in humid air

The amount of water in humid air can be expressed in several ways:


Relative humidity, Water content, xw Dew point Dry and wet bulb temperature

Example: The design d Th d i iindoor air t i temperature and relative h idit of an air conditioned t d l ti humidity f i diti d space at sea level are 23.9C and 50 percent. And the following parameters are given:

Calculate y The humidity ratio and The enthalpy of the indoor moist air

Dew point Let us conduct the following intellectual experiment:


We have a surface for which we can control the temperature. We start having the surface at room temperature and gradually decrease the temperature of the surface. When the first water droplet has condensed on the surface, we read the temperature. This temperature i th d point. Thi t t is the dew i t

At the dew point,

=1

The dew point can be read from charts or calculated using equations for the saturation pressure.

Example: In a room with a volume of 100 m the temperature is 20 m, C, the relative humidity is 40% and the total pressure is 1 atm. (=101325 Pa=1.013 bar). ( 101325 Pa 1.013 Calculate: a) the partial pressure of water vapor in the room. b) the dew point. c) the amount of water that need to be added to increase the relative humidity to 60 % (temperature kept constant at 20 C).

Example
In a room the temperat re sho ld be 20 C and the relati e h midit room, temperature should relative humidity should be 40 %. The room is occupied by 20 persons (metabolic rate of 120 W/person). Heat gains from computers and solar irradiation is adding another 3.8 kW to the room. The water production in the room is 2.5 kg/h. Calculate the air mass flow rate if the inlet air temperature is 17 C. Assume that the water content and the temperature of the air leaving the room are the same as the air in the room room.

Solution: Heatgains:Ptot =200.120+3.800=6.2kW. g

Solutionmethods Analytically Analytically Graphically

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