PSYCHROMETRY

DR HEMLATA KARNE
Psychrometry
 Psychrometry is the subject which deals with the properties of gas-
vapor mixtures.

 Gas in contact with a pure liquid in which the gas is essentially

insoluble

Humidification
 One of the most important psychrometric operations is the air-
water contact operation. These operations are also referred to as
humidification operation
Absolute Humidity

 The weight of water vapor present in a unit weight of dry air is

termed as absolute humidity

 Unit – H kg water/kg dry air

 Molal humidity – Hm kmol water vapor/ kmol dry air

Absolute Humidity
 Molal Humidity
nA PA
Hm = -------- = --------
nB P- PA
 Absolute Humidity
Hm MA
H = ----------
MB
Where MA = molar mass of water, MB = molar mass of air
PA = partial pressure of water vapor , P = normal pressure of mixtre
Absolute Humidity
H = 0.622 Hm

PA
Hm = 0.622 --------
P- PA
At PS = saturation pressure
PS
HS = 0.622 --------
P- PS
Percentage Humidity/ percentage absolute
humidity/ percentage saturation
H
Percentage humidity = (-----) *100
HS

PA (P- PS)
Percentage humidity = (--------------) *100
PS (P- PA)
Relative Humidity/ percentage relative
humidity/ relative saturation (RH)
PA
RH = (-------) *100
PS
Humid heat
 Humid heat is defined as the heat capacity of 1 kg dry air and the
moisture contained in it

Cs = 1.006 + 1.84 H kJ/kg dry air. K

Humid volume

 Humid volume is the volume of a mixture of air and water vapor

per kg of dry air
RT
VH = ----------
PA MA

 Where R = 8.31451 kJ/(kmol.K)