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Ventilation and air conditioning 141<br />

The heated or cooled air supply may also have its humidity modified by an air-conditioning<br />

plant so that the percentage saturation of the room air is controlled. A water spray or steam<br />

injector can be used for humidification. The refrigeration cooling coil lowers the air temperature<br />

below its dew-point to condense the moisture out of the air.<br />

Figure 5.4 shows how the properties of humid air are determined from a psychrometric chart.<br />

If g r and g s are the moisture contents of the room and the supply air respectively, then a heat<br />

balance can be written for the latent heat gain absorbed by the previously calculated supply air<br />

flow rate Q:<br />

latent heat gain to room = latent heat equivalent of moistures<br />

removed by the conditioned air<br />

LH kW = moisture mass flow rate kg kJ<br />

× latent heat of evaporation<br />

s kg<br />

= air mass flow rate kg s × moisture absorbed kg H 2O<br />

kg dry air × 2453.61 kJ<br />

kg H 2 O<br />

LH kW = Q m3<br />

s<br />

Q =<br />

× 1.205 kg 273 + 20<br />

× × (g<br />

m3 r − g s ) kg H 2O<br />

kJ<br />

× 2453.61<br />

273 + t s kg air<br />

kg H 2 O<br />

LH<br />

g r − g s<br />

× 273 + t s<br />

866 284 m3 /s<br />

The denominator can be rounded to 860 000 with an error of less than 1.0%.<br />

Percentage saturation<br />

100<br />

50<br />

14.8°C w.b.<br />

Dew-point<br />

temperature<br />

R<br />

Typical room<br />

air condition<br />

Moisture<br />

content<br />

g kg water<br />

kg air<br />

0.0078<br />

–10 t dp 21.0<br />

60<br />

Dry-bulb air temperature t (°C d.b.)<br />

5.4 Sketch of the CIBSE psychrometric chart.

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