Humidity Calculations in Food Engineering
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Department of Rural and Animal Technology
ITAPETINGA CAMPUS
DISCIPLINE: Unit Operations II - Food Engineering
TEACHER: Renata Cristina Ferreira Bonomo
Exercise 1) The air in a room is at 37.8 °C and a total pressure of 101.3 kPa (abs)
containing water vapor with a partial pressure of 3.59 kPa. Calculate:
a) Humidity;
b) Saturation humidity and percentage humidity;
c) Relative percentage humidity.
Exercise 2) The air in a room has a humidity of 0.021 kg of water / kg of dry air.
at a temperature of 32.2 °C and 101.3 kPa (abs). Calculate:
a) percentage humidity;
b) relative percentage humidity.
Exercise 3) The air entering a dryer has a temperature of 65.6 °C and a point
of 15.6 °C dew point. Using the humidity graph, determine the
current humidity and the percentage humidity. Calculate the wet volume of this
mixture and the value is cs,in the English system.
Exercise 4) A mixture of air-water vapor is going to a process of
drying having a wet bulb temperature of 57.2 °C and a
humidity of 0.030 kg of water/kg of dry air. Using the humidity chart
and the appropriate equations, determine the percentage humidity, humidity of
saturation at 57.2 °C, dew point, moisture heat and volume
humid.
Exercise 5) Air at 82.2 °C and having a humidity of 0.0655 kg of water/kg of dry air
is connected in an adiabatic saturator with water. It lets the
saturator with 80% saturation.
a) What are the final values of H and T?
b) For 100% saturation, what should the values of H and T be?
Exercise 6) Air enters an adiabatic saturator at a temperature of 76.7 °C and
a dew point of 40.6 °C. It exits the saturator 90% saturated.
What are the final values of T and H.
Exercise 7) A mixture of air-water vapor has a dry bulb temperature
of 65.6 °C and a wet bulb temperature of 32.2 °C. What is the
moisture of the mixture?
Exercise 8) Air having a dry bulb temperature of 37.8 °C and a temperature
a wet bulb of 26.7 °C is dry first passing through a
cooling to 15.6 °C to condense the water vapor and then it is
heated to 23.9 °C.
a) Calculate the initial humidity and the percentage humidity.
b) Calculate the final humidity and the percentage humidity. (Locate the point
initial on the humidity chart, then go horizontally (cooling)
for the saturation line of 100%. Following this line to 15.6 °C,
go horizontally to the right until 23.9 °C.
Exercise 9) Air entering a cooling adiabatic vessel has a
temperature of 32.2 °C and a percentage humidity of 65%. This is
cooled by a spray of cold water saturated with water vapor in
container. It is then heated to 23.9 °C. The final air has a humidity
percentage of 40%.
a) What is the initial humidity of the air?
b) What is the final humidity of the air leaving the heater?
Exercise 10) A batch of wet solid was dried in a tray dryer.
using constant drying conditions and a material thickness of
25.4 mm. Only the top of the surface was exposed. The drying rate
during the constant rate period was 2.05 kg of water/h.m2The reason
LsThe used amount was 24.4 kg of dry solids/m2of exposed surface. A
the initial free moisture was 0.55 and the critical moisture was 0.22 kg of moisture
free/kg of dry solid. Calculate the time to dry a batch of this
material from 0.45 to 0.30 using the same drying conditions
but with a thickness of 50.8 mm, with drying on the surfaces of
top and bottom. (Calculate L firsts).
Exercise 11) A solid, whose drying curve is represented by figure 5.1b
below, it is being dried from a free humidity X10.45 kg of
water/ kg of dry solid for X20.25 kg of water/kg of dry solid.
Estimate the time required for drying.
Exercício 12) Repita o Exercício 11, mas usando a Equação para período de taxa
constant and Fig. 5.1-b.
Exercise 13) A wet insoluble granular material is dried in a tray measuring 0.457 x
0.457 m and 25.4 mm deep. The material is at 25.4 mm from
depth in the tray, and the sides and bottom can be considered
isolated. Heat transfer is done by convection from a
air current flowing parallel to the surface at a speed of 6.1 m/s.
The air is at 65.6°C and has a humidity of 0.010 kg of water/kg of air.
dry. Estimate the drying rate for a constant rate period using
the units in SI.
Exercise 14) Using the conditions of exercise 13 for a drying period at
constant rate, do the following:
a) Determine the effect in Rc if the air speed is 30.5 m/s.
b) Determine the effect on the drying time between X1e X2if a
the thickness of the dry material is 38.1 mm instead of 25.4 mm and the
drying is still in the constant rate period.
c) Determine the effect if the gas temperature is raised to 76.7 °C and the
humidity remains the same.
Exercise 15) A wet filtration cake on a tray of 1 ft x 1 ft and 1 in of
thickness is dry on the upper surface with air at a temperature of
wet bulb of 80 °F and a dry bulb temperature of 120 °F
scanning parallel to the surface at a speed of 2.5 ft/s. The
the density of the dry cake is 120 lbm/ft3the critical free humidity is 0.09
lbm of water / lbm of dry cake. How long will it take to dry the
material with a moisture content of 0.20 lbm of water/lbm of solid
dry for the critical moisture content.