Examples Illustrating Use of Psychrometric Charts

Examples Illustrating Use of Psychrometric Charts In these examples the following nomenclature is used ... 

This result (which is far from obvious) allows us to perform adiabatic cooling calculations with relative ease using the psychrometric chart. First locate the initial state of the air on the chart then locate the final state on the constant wet-bulb temperature line that passes through the initial state (or on the 100% humidity curve if cooling below the adiabatic saturation temperature takes place) and finally perform whatever material and energy balance calculations are required. Example 8.4-7 illustrates such a calculation for an adiabatic humidification operation. 

The adiabatic cooling lines are lines of almost constant enthalpy for the entering air-water mixture, and you can use them as such without much error (1 or 2%). However, if you want to correct a saturated enthalpy value for the deviation which exists for a less-than-saturated air-water vapor mixture, you can employ the enthalpy deviation lines which appear on the chart and which can be used as illustrated in the examples below. Any process that is not a wet-bulb process or an adiabatic process with recirculated water can be treated by the usual material and energy balances, taking the basic data for the calculation from the humidity charts. If there is any increase or decrease in the moisture content of the air in a psychrometric process, the small enthalpy effect of the moisture added to the air or lost by the air may be included in the energy balance for the process to make it more exact as illustrated in Examples 4.47 and 4.49. 

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