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MEC551 Tutorial 5 (Aircondition)

This document defines key terms related to air conditioning and humidity. It then provides 13 example problems calculating specific humidity, relative humidity, temperature, flow rates, heat transfer rates, and other properties for systems involving mixing or cooling of humid air at various conditions. The examples cover concepts like adiabatic mixing, cooling to the dew point, and heating and humidifying air in conditioning systems.

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MEC551 Tutorial 5 (Aircondition)

This document defines key terms related to air conditioning and humidity. It then provides 13 example problems calculating specific humidity, relative humidity, temperature, flow rates, heat transfer rates, and other properties for systems involving mixing or cooling of humid air at various conditions. The examples cover concepts like adiabatic mixing, cooling to the dew point, and heating and humidifying air in conditioning systems.

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MEC551 THERMAL ENGINEERING

Air Conditioning

Tutorial #5

1. Define/explain the following terms


i. Atmospheric air
ii. Dry air
iii. Saturated air
iv. Specific (absolute) humidity
v. Relative humidity
vi. Dry-bulb temperature
vii. Wet-bulb temperature
viii. Dew-point temperature
ix. Adiabatic saturation temperature

2. A tank contains 21 kg of dry air and 0.3 kg of water vapor at 30 oC and 100 kPa total
pressure. Determine:
a) The specific humidity [ 0.0143 kg H2O / kg dry air ]
b) The relative humidity [ 52.9 % ]
c) The volume of the tank [ 18.7 m3 ]

3. The air in the room has a dry-bulb temperature of 25 oC and wet bulb temperature of 20
o
C. At pressure of 100 kPa, Determine:
a) The specific humidity
b) The relative humidity
c) The dew-point temperature

4. Humid air at 1 atm 30 oC and 60% relative humidity is cooled at constant pressure to the
dewpoint temperature. Determine the cooling required (in kJ/kg dry air)
[ 8.9 kJ/kg dry air ].

5. Air enters a 30-cm diameter cooling section at 1 atm, 35 oC and 45% relative humidity at
18 m/s. heat is removed at a rate of 750 kJ/min. Determine the air’s :
a) exit temperature [ 26.5 oC ]
b) exit relative humidity [ 73.1 % ]
c) exit velocity [ 17.5 m/s ]

6. Saturated humid air at 200 kPa and 15 oC is heated to 30 oC as it flow through a 4 cm


diameter pipe with a velocity of 20 m/s. Assuming no pressure drop, calculate
a) the relative humidity at the pipe outlet [ 40.2 % ]
b) the rate of heat transfer to the air [ 0.918 kW ]

7. Air at 1 atm, 15 oC and 60 % relative is first heated to 20 oC in a heating section and the
humidified by introducing water vapor. The air leaves the humidifying section at 25 oC
and 65 % relative humidity. Determine:
a) The amount of steam added to the air [ 0.0065 kg H2O/ kg dry air]
b) The amount of heat transfer in the heating section [ 5.1 kJ/kg dry air]
8. An air conditioning system operates at a total pressure of 1 atm and consist of heating
section and humidifier that supply wet steam at 100 oC. Air enter the heating section at
10 oC and 70 % relative humidity at a rate of 35 m3/min, and leaves the humidifying
section at 20 oC and 60% relative humidity. Determine
a) The temperature and relative humidity of air when it leaves the heating section
[ 19.5 oC, 37.8 %]
b) The rate of heat transfer in the heating section [ 420 kJ/min ]
c) The rate at which water is added to the air in the humidifying section. [ 0.15 kg/min ]

9. Humid atmospheric air at 1 atm, 30 oC and 90% relative humidity is cooled to10 oC. The
liquid water leaves the system at 15 oC. Calculate
a) the amount of water removed from the air [ 0.0168 kg H2O/kg dry air ]
b) the cooling requirement in dry air [ 62.1 kJ/kg dry air ]

10. Air at 1 atm and 28 oC with dew point temperature of 25 oC flow at 10,000 m3/hour is to
be cooled to 18 oC. Determine
a) The rate at which the condensate leaves the system [ 0.0277 kg/s ]
b) The cooling rate when the condensate eaves the systems [ 88.3 kW ]

11. Two air steams are mixed steadily and adiabatically. The first stream enters at 32 oC
and 40 % relative humidity at a rate of 20 m 3/min. The second stream enters at 12 oC
and 90 % relative humidity at a rate of 25 m 3/min. The mixing process is at 1 atm.
Determine the mixture’s
a) the specific humidity [ 0.0096 kg H2O/kg dry air]
b) the relative humidity [ 63.4 % ]
c) the dry-bulb temperature [ 20.6 oC ]
d) the volume flow rate [ 45.0 m3/min ]

12. A stream of warm air with dry-bulb temperature of 36 oC and wet-bulb temperature of 30
o
C at a flowrate of 8 kg/s is mixed adiabatically with a stream of cold air at 12 oC flowing
at a rate of 10 kg/s. Assuming the total pressure of 1 atm, determine, the mixture’s:
a) Temperature [ 22.8 oC ]
b) specific humidity [ 0.0158 kg H2O/kg dry air]
c) relative humidity [ 90.1 % ]

13. Two humid air streams are mixed adiabatically at 1 atm to form a third stream. The first
stream is at 40 oC, relative humidity of 40 % and flow at 3 liter/s. The second stream is
at 15 oC, relative humidity of 80 % and flow at 1 liter/s. Calculate the temperature and
relative humidity of the third stream [ 33.4 oC, 49.3 %]

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