Removal Exams – Air Conditioning Systems

Directions: Solve the following problems systematically and completely. Draw the necessary figures and
diagrams. Round your answers to four (4) decimal places. Box your final answer.

1. Copra enters a dryer containing 60% water and 40% of solid and leaves with 5% water and 95% solids.
Find the weight of water removed based on each pound of original product.

2. Wet material containing 215% moisture (dry basis) is to be dried at the rate of 1.5 kg/s in a continuous
dryer to give a product containing 5% moisture (wet basis). The drying medium consists of air heated
to 373K and containing water vapor equivalent to a partial pressure of 1.40 kPa. The air leaves the
dryer at 310K and 70% saturated. Calculate how much air will be required to remove the moisture.

3. A cooling tower is a device that cools a spray of water by passing it through a stream of air. If 15 m 3/s
of air is at 35 C dry-bulb and 24 C wet-bulb temperature and an atmospheric pressure of 101 kPa
enters the tower and the air leaves saturated 31 C. (a) To what temperature can this airstream cool a
spray of water entering at 38 C with a flow rate of 20 kg/s and (b) how many kilograms per second of
make-up water must be added to compensate for the water that is evaporated?

4. Compute the heat gain for a window facing southeast at 32 o north latitude at 10 A.M. central daylight
time on August 21. The window is regular double glass with a 13-mm air space. The glass and inside
draperies have a combined shading coefficient of 0.45. The indoor design temperature is 25 C, and the
outdoor temperature is 37 C. Window dimensions are 2 m wide and 1.5 m high.

5. This is either a volume or a site without a partition or a partitioned room or group of rooms.

a. room b. plenum c. zone d. space

6. Group of spaces within a building with heating and/or cooling requirements sufficiently similar so that

comfort conditions can be maintained throughout by a single controlling device.

a. hallway b. room c. space d. zone

7. This is an enclosed or partitioned space that is usually treated as single load.

a. plenum b. zone c. hallway d. room

8. An equivalent temperature difference used for calculating the instantaneous external cooling load
across a wall or roof.

a. Arithmetic Mean Temperature Difference (AMTD)

b. Log Mean Temperature Difference (LMTD)
c. Cooling Load Temperature Difference (CLTD)
b. Instantaneous Load Temperature Difference (ILTD)

9. It is the energy added to the space by conduction, convection and/or radiation.

a. latent heat gain b. space heat gain c. sensible heat gain d. radiant heat gain

10. Rate at which heat absorbed is by the surfaces enclosing the space and the objects within the space.
 a. latent heat gain b. space heat gain c. sensible heat gain d. radiant heat gain

11. It is the energy added to the space when moisture is added to the space by means of vapor emitted
by the occupants, generated by a process or through air infiltration from outside or adjacent areas.

a. latent heat gain b. space heat gain c. sensible heat gain d. radiant heat gain

12. It is the rate at which heat enters into and/or is generated within the conditioned space during a
given time interval.

a. latent heat gain b. space heat gain c. sensible heat gain d. radiant heat gain

13. An auditorium seating 1500 people is to be maintained at 80 oF dry bulb and 65oF wet bulb
temperature when outdoor air is at 91 oF dry bulb and 75oF wet bulb. Solar heat load is 110 000
BTU/hr and supply air is at 60oF, determine the amount of supply air. Take the sensible heat per
person as 225 BTU/hr.

14. 800 kg of dry air per hour is saturated at 46 C, then heated to 106 C, passed through an adiabatic
dryer and discharged at 61 C. Find the total kg/s of water in air before heating.

15. Raw cotton has been stored in a warehouse at 29 C, 50% RH and regain of 6.6%. For 200 kg of cotton
from warehouse, how many kg should appear in woven cloth neglecting thread losses? Regain of
finished cotton cloth at 70% RH is 8.1%.

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