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Vapour Pressure

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Basics Need to Know for Air

Conditioning
Vapour pressure

• Pressure of a vapour in equilibrium with its


non-vapor phase at certain constant
temperature.

• Liquid in a closed bottle starts evaporating


at certain constant temperature. When
liquid evaporates and vapour goes up and
strikes on the wall of the container they
have a tendency to condense (i.e. back to
liquid form). This process continues and
stops at certain stage due to equilibrium it
attains (because of the constant
temperature). This pressure of vapour at
this stage is called vapour pressure.
Boiling point
• The boiling point of a substance is the temperature at
which the vapour pressure of the liquid equals the
environmental pressure surrounding the liquid.

• Boiling point depends upon the environmental pressure.

• A liquid in a vacuum environment has lower boiling point


than a liquid in a high atmospheric pressure.

• Boiling point varies from substance to substance.

• For example, boiling point of water is 212°F @ 1bar


atmospheric pressure and boiling point of refrigerant
R134a is -15.3°F @ 14.5psi atmospheric pressure.
Ex

• 14.7 psi (atm pressure) = kPa


• 420.6 psi (absolute pressure) = psi(g)
• 5 pa = N/m2
• 43.5 psi (absolute pressure) = kPa
• Absolute Pressure - Atm Pressure =
Thermodynamic properties which are relevant
to refrigeration and air-conditioning

• Temperature
• Pressure
• Volume
• Density
• Specific heat
• Enthalpy
• Entropy
What is Enthalpy and Entropy?

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