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INTRODUCTION
• Psychrometry is the study of the properties of
air – water vapor mixture.
• Atmospheric air composition
• Concentration of water vapor and pollutants
• Concept of moist air
Composition of dry air
Properties of moist air
• Perfect gas laws for engineering calculations
• For accurate calculation of the properties of
moist air one need to use statistical mechanics
considering real gas behavior
• Exact properties are very complex and difficult
to compute.
Psychrometric properties
• Dry bulb temperature(DBT)
• Saturated vapor pressure(pS)
• Relative humidity(Φ)
• Humidity Ratio(W)
• Degree of saturation(µ)
• Dew Point Temperature(DPT)
• Specific volume(v)
• Enthalpy(h)
• Humid specific heat
Saturated vapor pressure
• Can be calculated from thermodynamic charts
or from regression equations
Relative Humidity (Φ)
• Relative humidity is the ratio of molar fraction of
water vapor in moist air to the molar fraction of
water vapor in saturated air at same temperature
and pressure. Considering ideal gas behavior it can
be expressed as