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Psychrometric Process

This document defines key terms related to psychrometry, which is the measurement of moisture in air. It discusses basic definitions like dry air, wet bulb temperature, dew point temperature, and relative humidity. It also describes psychrometric relations, different types of psychrometers used to measure dry bulb and wet bulb temperatures, psychrometric charts, and various psychrometric processes like sensible heating, cooling, humidification, and more. The document provides an overview of fundamental psychrometric concepts.

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Psychrometric Process

This document defines key terms related to psychrometry, which is the measurement of moisture in air. It discusses basic definitions like dry air, wet bulb temperature, dew point temperature, and relative humidity. It also describes psychrometric relations, different types of psychrometers used to measure dry bulb and wet bulb temperatures, psychrometric charts, and various psychrometric processes like sensible heating, cooling, humidification, and more. The document provides an overview of fundamental psychrometric concepts.

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UNIT -5

Psychrometry
What is meant by
Psychrometry ?

• art of measuring the moisture content of air


Basic Definitions
 Dry air water free contents of air
 Saturated air
 Dry-bulb temperature (DBT) It is temperature of air as registered by an ordinary thermometer (tdb)
 Wet-bulb temperature (WBT) It is the temperature registered by a thermometer when the bulb is
covered by a wetted wick and is exposed to a current of rapidly moving air (twb)
 Wet bulb depression It is the difference between dry-bulb and wet bulb temperatures
 Dew point temperature (DPT) It is the temperature to which air must be cooled at constant pressure
in order to cause condensation of any of its water vapour. It is equal to steam table saturation
temperature corresponding to the actual partial pressure of water vapour in the air (tdp).
 Dew point depression It is the difference between the dry bulb and dew point temperatures
 Specific humidity (Humidity ratio) It is the ratio of the mass of water vapour per unit mass of dry air in
the mixture of vapour and air, it is generally expressed as grams of water per kg of dry air. For a given
barometric pressure it is a function of dew point temperature alone.
 Relative humidity (RH), (φ) It is the ratio of the partial pressure of water vapour in the mixture to the
saturated partial pressure at the dry bulb temperature, expressed as percentage.
 Sensible heat It is the heat that changes the temperature of a substance when added to or
abstracted from it.
 Latent heat It is the heat that does not affect the temperature but changes the state of
substance when added to or abstracted from it.
 Enthalpy It is the combination energy which represents the sum of internal and flow energy in
a steady flow process. It is determined from an arbitrary datum point for the air mixture and is expressed
as kJ per kg of dry air (h).
Note. When air is saturated - DBT, WBT, DPT are equal.
PSYCHROMETRIC RELATIONS
• Pressure
PSYCHROMETERS
A psychrometer is a device which is used for
measuring dry bulb and wet bulb
temperatures simultaneously
The psychrometers may be classified as follows :
• Laboratory psychrometer
• Sling psychrometer
• Aspirating psychrometer
• Continuous recording psychrometer.
PSYCHROMETRIC CHARTS
PSYCHROMETRIC PROCESSES
• Mixing of air streams
• Sensible heating
• Sensible cooling
• Humidification
• Dehumidification
• Cooling and dehumidification
• Cooling and humidification
• Heating and dehumidification
• Heating and humidification
• Evaporative cooling
• Adiabatic saturation
Total Air Conditioning
Sensible heating
Sensible cooling
Humidification
Dehumidification
Cooling and dehumidification
Heating and humidification
Mixing of Air Streams
Evaporative cooling
Adiabatic saturation

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