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This document contains 8 questions related to psychrometrics and air conditioning systems. Students are asked to solve numerical problems involving properties like temperature, humidity, mass flow rates, heat transfer rates, and more for streams of air under various steady-state conditioning processes. Students are told to use online psychrometric charts and tables to find values and show their work and results. The assignment is due by Friday June 17th 2022.

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Assignment 3

This document contains 8 questions related to psychrometrics and air conditioning systems. Students are asked to solve numerical problems involving properties like temperature, humidity, mass flow rates, heat transfer rates, and more for streams of air under various steady-state conditioning processes. Students are told to use online psychrometric charts and tables to find values and show their work and results. The assignment is due by Friday June 17th 2022.

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Assignment 3

No need to attach printed psychometric charts. Use values from online versions and
solve the numerical. Alternatively, you can also solve using tables or hand calculations.
However, show all working and results.
Slide it beneath my office door before 17:00 by Friday 17th June 2022

Q1. Moist air enters a duct at 10°C, 80% relative humidity, and a volumetric flow rate of 150
m3/min. The mixture is heated as it flows through the duct and exits at 30°C. No moisture is
added or removed, and the mixture pressure remains approximately constant at 1 bar. For
steady-state operation, determine
(a) the rate of heat transfer, in kJ/min, and
(b) the relative humidity at the exit.
Changes in kinetic and potential energy can be ignored.

Q2. Moist air at 30°C and 50% relative humidity enters a dehumidifier operating at steady
state with a volumetric flow rate of 280 m3/min. The moist air passes over a cooling coil and
water vapor condenses. Condensate exits the dehumidifier saturated at 10°C. Saturated moist
air exits in a separate stream at the same temperature. There is no significant loss of energy
by heat transfer to the surroundings and pressure remains constant at 1.013 bar. Determine
(a) the mass flow rate of the dry air, in kg/min,
(b) the rate at which water is condensed, in kg per kg of dry air flowing through the control
volume, and
(c) the required refrigerating capacity, in tons.

Q3. Moist air with a temperature of 22°C and a wet-bulb temperature of 9°C enters a steam-
spray humidifier. The mass flow rate of the dry air is 90 kg/min. Saturated water vapor at
110°C is injected into the mixture at a rate of 52 kg/h. There is no heat transfer with the
surroundings, and the pressure is constant throughout at 1 bar. Using the psychrometric chart,
determine at the exit (a) the humidity ratio and (b) the temperature, in °C.

Q4. Air at 38°C and 10% relative humidity enters an evaporative cooler with a volumetric
flow rate of 140 m3/min. Moist air exits the cooler at 21°C. Water is added to the soaked pad
of the cooler as a liquid at 21°C and evaporates fully into the moist air. There is no heat
transfer with the surroundings and the pressure is constant throughout at 1 atm. Determine (a)
the mass flow rate of the water to the soaked pad, in lb/h, and (b) the relative humidity of the
moist air at the exit to the evaporative cooler.
Q5. A stream consisting of 142 m3/min of moist air at a temperature of 5°C and a humidity
ratio of 0.002 kg(vapor)/kg(dry air) is mixed adiabatically with a second stream consisting of
425 m3/min of moist air at 24°C and 50% relative humidity. The pressure is constant
throughout at 1 bar. Using the psychrometric chart, determine (a) the humidity ratio and (b)
the temperature of the exiting mixed stream, in °C.

Q6. An air-conditioning system is to take in outdoor air at 10°C and 30 percent relative
humidity at a steady rate of 45 m3/min and to condition it to 25°C and 60 percent relative
humidity. The outdoor air is first heated to 22°C in the heating section and then humidified by
the injection of hot steam in the humidifying section. Assuming the entire process takes place
at a pressure of 100 kPa, determine (a) the rate of heat supply in the heating section and (b)
the mass flow rate of the steam required in the humidifying section.

Q7. Air enters a window air conditioner at 1 atm, 30°C, and 80 percent relative humidity at a
rate of 10 m3/min, and it leaves as saturated air at 14°C. Part of the moisture in the air that
condenses during the process is also removed at 14°C. Determine the rates of heat and
moisture removal from the air.

Q8. Saturated air leaving the cooling section of an air-conditioning system at 14°C at a rate of
50 m3/min is mixed adiabatically with the outside air at 32°C and 60 percent relative
humidity at a rate of 20 m3/min. Assuming that the mixing process occurs at a pressure of 1
atm, determine the specific humidity, the relative humidity, the dry-bulb temperature, and the
volume flow rate of the mixture.

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