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Evaporative Cooling Process Analysis

This document provides an example of using a psychrometric chart to analyze an evaporative cooling process. It gives the initial conditions of dry bulb temperature and wet bulb temperature for air and uses the chart to determine other properties. It then describes the air undergoing an adiabatic cooling process which lowers the dry bulb temperature without changing the wet bulb temperature. It provides the resulting conditions on the chart and compares the changes in temperature, relative humidity, enthalpy, and specific volume. Finally, it analyzes an example of air flowing through lumber and calculates the drying rate based on the change in humidity ratio and airflow properties.

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Evaporative Cooling Process Analysis

This document provides an example of using a psychrometric chart to analyze an evaporative cooling process. It gives the initial conditions of dry bulb temperature and wet bulb temperature for air and uses the chart to determine other properties. It then describes the air undergoing an adiabatic cooling process which lowers the dry bulb temperature without changing the wet bulb temperature. It provides the resulting conditions on the chart and compares the changes in temperature, relative humidity, enthalpy, and specific volume. Finally, it analyzes an example of air flowing through lumber and calculates the drying rate based on the change in humidity ratio and airflow properties.

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Evaporative

Cooling
David
Edward
Jason
Ksatrio

Reinhart

Psychrometric chart: Example 1


Given:

T = 25C
Tw =20C

Required:

(a) RH, (b) Tdp, (c) HR, (d) v, (e) h

57.5 kJ/kg d.a.

63%

20.0C
17.6C

12.6 g/kg d.a.

25C
0.86 m3/kg d.a.

Sensible Heating or Cooling


a psychrometric process that involves
the increase or decrease in the
temperature of air without changing its
humidity ratio
Example: passing moist air over a room
space heater and of kiln air over the
heating coils

T3=70C
T2=60C
Tw2=50C Tw3=?
RH2=58.8% RH3=?

6%

51C
50C

37
.

275.5 kJ/kg d.a.

58
.8%

287.0 kJ/kg d.a.

60C

70C

Adiabatic or Evaporative Cooling

a psychrometric process that involves


the cooling of air without heat loss or
gain. Sensible heat lost by the air is
converted to latent heat in the added
water vapor

2
1

Evaporative cooling: Example 10


Referring to Figure 21, air at state point 1 (65C
dry bulb temperature and 57C wet bulb temperature)
experiences a temperature drop of 3C as it passes
through the 1.2-m wide stack of lumber. Determine
the properties of the air at state point 2 and compare
them with those at state point 1. If the air is flowing
at a rate of 2 meters per second, determine the drying
rate assuming that the volume of the stack of
2.5-cm-thick lumber is 2.5 m3. The stack is
1.2 m wide x 3.6 m long, and the boards are
separated by stickers 3.8 cm wide x 1.9 cm thick that are
spaced 0.6 m apart.

T=62C
T=65C
Tw=57C

Evaporative cooling: Example 10


Given: T1 = 65C; Tw1 = 57C
Adiabatic cooling to T2 = 62C
Air flow rate = 2 m/s
Volume of lumber = 2.5 m3
Board thickness = 2.5 cm
Stack dimensions: 1.2 m wide x 3.6 m long
Sticker dimensions: 3.8 cm wide x 1.9 cm thick
Sticker spacing = 0.6 m
Required:

Solution:

(a) Properties of the air at state point 2


relative to that at state point 1
(b) Drying rate

57C

124.5 g/kg d.a.


1

62C

123.1 g/kg d.a.

65C

1.15 m3/kg d.a.


1.14 m3/kg d.a.

Evaporative cooling: Example 10


(a) At state point 1: T1 = 65C
Tw1 = 57C
Tdp1 = 56.3C
RH1 = 66.9%
HR1 = 123.1 g/kg of dry air
v1 = 1.15 m3/kg of dry air
h1 = 387.7 kJ/kg of dry air
At state point 2: T2 = 62C
Tw2 = 57C
Tdp2 = 56.5C
RH2 = 77.3%
HR2 = 124.5 g/kg of dry air
v2 = 1.14 m3/kg of dry air
h2 = 387.7 kJ/kg of dry air

Evaporative cooling: Example 10


(b) Drying rate = ( HR )( w a )

VF
wa =
v2
VF = ( A )( air flow rate )

Evaporative cooling: Example 10


V

Pl + Ss
A=
St Sw
Pl St
Ss
Pl Pw Bt

2.5
3.6 + 0.6

A=
0.019 * 0.038
3.6 * 0.019
0.6
3.6 *1.2 * 0.025

A = 1.47 m 2

Evaporative cooling: Example 10


A = 1.47 m 2
VF = ( A )( air flow rate )
3
m
m

VF = (1.47 m3 ) 2 = 2.9
s
s

Evaporative cooling: Example 10


m3
VF =2.9
s
VF
wa =
v2
m3
2.9
kg dry air
s
= 2.6
wa =
3
m
s
1.14
kg dry air

Evaporative cooling: Example 10


kg dry air
w a = 2.6
s
Drying rate = ( w a )( HR )

kg dry air
g

Drying rate = 2.6


1.4

s
kg
dry
air

g
kg
= 3.6 = 13.0
s
h

THANK YOU

Reference

Peralta Perry. The Psychrometric Chart : Theory and Application. NC State University.

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