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With a high relative humidity, partial fusion of crystallites (Takizawa et al., 1968) acting as crosslinks occurs even at room temperature, and a long-term treatment of PVA with water vapour will lead to an additional crystallization (Priest, IQ. il) (the effect of annealing). 

The relative humidity is the ratio of the partial pressure of the water vapour in the air to the partial pressure of water vapour in the air when saturated at the same temperature. This ratio is usually expressed as a p>ercentage. 

The effect of plasticizers and temperature on the permeabiUty of small molecules in a typical vinyUdene chloride copolymer has been studied thoroughly. The oxygen permeabiUty doubles with the addition of about 1.7 parts per hundred resin (phr) of common plasticizers, or a temperature increase of 8°C (91). The effects of temperature and plasticizer on the permeabiUty are shown in Figure 4. The moisture (water) vapor transmission rate (MVTR or WVTR) doubles with the addition of about 3.5 phr of common plasticizers (92). The dependence of the WVTR on temperature is a Htde more comphcated. WVTR is commonly reported at a constant difference in relative humidity and not at a constant partial pressure difference. WVTR is a mixed term that increases with increasing temperature because both the fundamental permeabiUty and the fundamental partial pressure at constant relative humidity increase. Carbon dioxide permeabiUty doubles with the addition of about 1.8 phr of common plasticizers, or a temperature increase of 7°C (93). 

Percent saturation is the ratio of the partial pressure of a condensable vapor ia a gas to the vapor pressure of the Hquid at the same temperature, expressed as a percentage. For water vapor ia air this is called percent relative humidity. 

Percentage relative humidity is defined as the partial pressure of water vapor in air divided by the vapor pressure of water at the given temperature. Thus RH = lOOp/p,. 

Relative humidity and dew point can be determined for other than atmospheric pressure from the partial pressure of water in the mixture and from the vapor pressure of water vapor. The partial pressure of water is calculated, if ideal-gas behavior is assumed, as... 

The relative humidity is obtained by dividing the calculated partial pressure by the vapor pressure of water at the diy-bulb temperature. Thus ... 

When a mixture is saturated, the proper terminology is that the volume occupied by the mixture is saturated by one or more of the components, For air space, which is partially saturated by water vapor, the actual partial pressure of the water vapor may be determined by multiplying the saturation pressure at the space temperature by the relative humidity. 

The percent relative humidity is defined as lOOp/P, where p is the actual partial pressure of the water vapor and P is the vapor pressure of water at the same temperature. The total pressure is taken as normal barometric, unless otherwise stated. Note that since the per cent relative humidity is defined as 100(p/Pj) and the per cent absolute humidity equals 100[p/(760-p) -h P,/(760-Pj)], the factor by which the former must be multiplied to convert it to the latter is (760 -P ) / (760-p), where p and Pj can be expressed in units of millimeters of mercury. 

The partial pressure of water vapor can be calculated as a function of the dry-bulb and wet-bulb temperatures, Eq. (12.23), and the relative humidity from its definition ... 

An important variable that determines the size of a given desiccant bed is the relative saturation of the inlet gas. This variable is the driving force that affects the transfer of water to the adsorbent. If saturated gas (100% relative humidity) is being dried, higher useful capacities can be expected for most desiccants than when drying partially saturated gases. However, in most field gas dehydration installations the inlet gas is samrated with water vapor and this is not a variable that must be considered. 

Both factors depend on the respective partial vapor pressures of water and carbon dioxide and upon the distance to the radiation source. The partial vapor pressure of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is fairly constant (30 Pa), but the partial vapor pressure of water varies with atmospheric relative humidity. Duiser (1989) published graphs plotting absorption factors (a) against the product of partial vapor pressure and distance to flame (Px) for flame temperatures ranging from 800 to 1800 K. 

This compares the amount of moisture in a sample of air with the amount it would contain if saturated. More accurately, relative humidity is the partial pressure of vapor present divided by saturation vapor pressure x 100 per cent. Saturation =100 per cent relative humidity. 

Relative humidity is a term frequently used to represent the quantity of moisture or water vapor present in a mixture although it uses partial pressures in so doing. It is expressed as ... 

Relative humidity is usually considered only in connection with atmospheric air, but since it is unconcerned with the nature of any other components or the total mixture pressure, the term is applicable to vapor content in any problem. The saturated water vapor pressure at a given temperature is always known from steam tables or charts. It is the existing partial vapor pressure which is desired and therefore calculable when the relative humidity is stated. 

Fig. 4. Moisture uptakes as a function of water partial pressure for DGEBA-TETA net resin. Influence of previous exposure to 60 °C and 95% relative humidity on the apparent sorptivity. Open circles conditioned samples full circles reference samples. (22)...

When (P - Pwq)/(P — Pw) 1, the percentage relative humidity and the percentage humidity are equal. This condition is approached when the partial pressure of the vapour is only a small proportion of the total pressure or when the gas is almost saturated, that is as Pw -> PiM. 

The vapor pressure of water at various temperatures is given in Table 8.3. (a) What is the relative humidity at 30.°C when the partial pressure of water is 25.0 Torr (b) Explain what would be observed if the temperature of the air were to fall to 25°C. 

Because the vapor pressure of water varies with temperature, a given amount of water in the atmosphere represents a higher relative humidity as the temperature falls. For example, a partial pressure of H2 O of 6.54 torr at 15 °C corresponds to a relative humidity of about 50% (V p = 12.788 torr from Table 5-4) ... 

Relative humidity = (100 %) ---j = 51.1% At 5 °C, however, this same partial pressure is... 

The formation of dew and fog are consequences of this variation in relative humidity. Warm air at high relative humidity may cool below the temperature at which its partial pressure of H2O equals the vapor pressure. When air temperature falls below this temperature, called the dew point, some H2 O must condense from the atmosphere. Example shows how to work with vapor pressure variations with temperature, and our Chemistry and the Environment Box explores how variations in other trace gases affect climate. 

This problem asks about the partial pressure of water vapor in the atmosphere. Fog forms when that partial pressure exceeds the vapor pressure. Partial pressures are not given among the data, but relative humidity describes how close the partial pressure of water vapor is to its vapor pressure at the given temperature. Because vapor pressure varies strongly with temperature, we must use the information... 

To convert relative humidity at 27.5 °C into a partial pressure, we need the vapor pressure of water at that temperature. Table 5 4 lists vapor pressures in 5 °C increments, but we can interpolate to find the... 

C05-0037. A weather report gives the current temperature as 18 °C and sets the dew point at 10 °C. Using data from Table 5A, determine the partial pressure of water vapor in the atmosphere and calculate the relative humidity. 

C05-0041. Define partial pressure, vapor pressure, and relative humidity. Explain how they are related. 

C05-0096. How much does the partial pressure of N2 gas in the atmosphere change at 30 °C and 1.00 atm as the relative humidity varies from zero to 100% ... 

C05-0145. Find the partial pressures in atmospheres of the eight most abundant atmospheric components listed in Table 5 at 25 °C, 50% relative humidity, and P = 765 torr. 

For 60% relative humidity, the partial pressure of water vapor is given by ... 

By integrating Eq. (46) and applying the boundary conditions, the solution for the total moisture uptake limited by mass transport is found. In the solution shown in Eq. (47) the vapor pressures have been converted to relative humidities and it has been assumed that the partial pressure of water is much less than the total pressure. Under these conditions, Eq. (47) is the solution for mass transport resistance in spherical coordinates. As with transport in rectangular coordinates, the important variables are the partial pressures of the chamber and above the solid surface and the distance between the solid surface and chamber wall. 

Table 11.2 Water partial pressure and relative humidity under various conditions... 

Water vapour partial pressure (mb) Relative humidity (%)... 

The curves in Fig. 10 were drawn for the particular instance of a volatile solute dissolved in a volatile solvent, such as would exist for the acetone-chloroform system (whose diagram is very nearly like that of Fig. 10B). For many nonvolatile solutes, it not possible to trace smooth partial pressure curves across the entire range of mole fractions. This is especially true for aqueous salt solutions, where at a certain concentration of solute the solution becomes saturated. Any further addition of crystalline solute to the system does not change the mole fraction in the liquid phase, and the partial pressure of water thereafter remains constant, in accord with the phase rule. This phenomenon permits the use of saturated salt solutions as media to establish fixed relative humidity values in closed systems [12],... 

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