Tutorial 5: Air-water systems and humidification operations 1.

The difference in the wet bulb and dry bulb temperature is called the wet bulb depression. Does high value of the wet bulb depression point to low relative humidity or high relative humidity? 2. Given your understanding of air/water mixtures behaviour explain the physical meaning of fog. Imagine this: it was a nice day 24 C and relative humidity was 30% (as heard on the news). As the night approached, air cooled down and dense fog formed. Walking with a group of friends, you said: I know exactly what temperature it is now!. What was the temperature in the evening, assuming that you always carry a parchment with a steam table on it? 3. You need to cool 50000 kg/h of water stream from 40 C to 30 C. - Calculate minimum air flow required - Select an actual flow rate - Depict graphically the operating line for the process on the psychrometric chart (use simplified chart for clarity, coming on the next page) - Calculate the number of transfer units - Calculate the height of the packing in the cooling tower In this calculations, assume that the air used for cooling is typical Scottish air at 15 C, 75% relative humidity. A typical HTU in modern cooling towers is 1m.