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(W .622 (P /P - P) ) : Air Conditioning and Ventilation

This document discusses key concepts in air conditioning and ventilation including: - Moist air is a mixture of dry air and water vapor that exists in saturated or unsaturated states. - Relative humidity is the ratio of water vapor partial pressure to saturation pressure at a given temperature. - Psychrometry is the study of air-water vapor mixtures and how to determine properties from measurements.

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(W .622 (P /P - P) ) : Air Conditioning and Ventilation

This document discusses key concepts in air conditioning and ventilation including: - Moist air is a mixture of dry air and water vapor that exists in saturated or unsaturated states. - Relative humidity is the ratio of water vapor partial pressure to saturation pressure at a given temperature. - Psychrometry is the study of air-water vapor mixtures and how to determine properties from measurements.

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Airconditioning is the simultaneous control of temperature, humidity, air movement and the

quantity of air in a space.

- Moist Air is a binary mixture of Dry Air and a water vapor (saturated & unsaturated).

- Dry Air is the non-condensing components of the mixture, mainly nitrogen and the oxygen.

- Vapor is the non-condensable component if the mixture, the water vapor or steam which may
exist in a saturated or superheated state.

P m = P a + Pv

Where:
Pm = total mixture pressure (atmospheric pressure)
Pa = partial pressure exerted by dry air
Pv = partial pressure exerted by vapor

Humidity Ratio (moisture content, mixing ratio or the specific humidity) W is the ratio of the mass
of water vapor to the mass of dry air [W = .622 (Pv/Pt-Pv)]

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- Relative Humidity RH, is the ratio of the partial pressure of water vapor in the air to the
saturation pressure corresponding to the temperature of the air (Pv/P sat = RH)
where: P sat = saturation pressure at a certain temp.

P1) Compute the W of air at 65% RH and 34ºC when the barometric pressure is 101.3 KPa.

- Specific Enthalpy h of a mixture of dry air and water vapor is the sum of the enthalpy of the dry
air and the enthalpy of the water vapor (h = cp t + W hg)
where: cp = specific heat of dry air at constant temp. = 1.0062 kJ/Kg. K (approx.)
hg = enthalpy of saturated steam at temp, kJ/kg

P2) What is the enthalpy of the air-vapor mixture in P1?

- Specific Volume v is the number of cubic meters of mixture per kilogram of dry air
(v = RT/Pa = Ra Ta/Pm-Pv)

P3) What is the specific volume of an air-vapor mixture at 30ºC and a relative humidity of 40% at 101.3 kPa
pressure?

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- Dry bulb temperature td is the temperature of air as registered by an ordinary thermometer.

- Wet bulb temperature tw is the temperature of air as registered by a thermometer whose


bulb is covered by a wetted wick and exposed to a current of rapidly moving air.

- Wet bulb depression is the difference between the readings of the wet and dry bulb
temperatures.

- Dew point temperature tw is the saturation temp corresponding to the actual partial pressure
of the steam in air or at which condensation of moisture begins when the air is cooled at
constant pressure.

- Degree of Saturation DOS is the ratio of the air humidity ratio W to the humidity ratio Ws of
the saturated air at the same temperature.

P4) A mixture of dry air and water vapor is at a temperature if 21ºC under pressure of 101.3 kPa. The dew
point temperature is 15ºC. Find (a) partial pressure of water vapor, (b) relative humidity, (c) humidity
ratio, (d) enthalpy, (e) specific volume and (f) degree of saturation

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- Psychrometry is the study of the properties of mixtures of air and water vapor.

- Psychrometric properties are the properties if moist air.

- A psychrometric chart is a graphical representation of the thermodynamic properties of moist


air.

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P5: A certain air has a dry bulb temperature of 34ºC and a wet bulb temperature of 25ºC.
Determine the ff: (a) Relative Humidity, (b) dew point temperature, (c) Humidity Ratio, (d) specific
volume, and (e) enthalpy

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