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Air Conditioning Processes Illustrated On A Psychrometric Chart

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Air Conditioning Processes

Air Conditioning Processes illustrated on a Psychrometric Chart

In air conditioning processes heat is added to or extracted from the air to


produce heating or cooling. At any temperature, moist air will contain:

 Sensible heat for dry air.


 Sensible heat for water.
 Latent heat of evaporation.
 Sensible superheat for water vapor.

An adiabatic process is one in which the air loses sensible heat by an amount
equal to the latent heat gain.

Cooling is the transfer of energy from the space or air supplied to the space
by virtue of a difference in temperature between the source and the space or
air. In the usual cooling process air is circulated over a surface at a low
temperature. Cooling usually denotes sensible heat transfer, with a decrease
in the air temperature.

Heating is the transfer of energy to a space or to the air in a space by virtue of


a difference in temperature between the source and the space or air. Heating
can take place through direct radiation and free convection, heating of forced
circulated air, heating of water that is circulated to the vicinity space.
Dehumidifying is the transfer of water vapor from the atmospheric air. Latent
heat transfer is associated with this process. This process is most often
accompanied by circulating the air over a surface maintained at a sufficiently
low temperature to cause the condensation of water vapor from the mixture.

Humidifying is the transfer of water vapor to atmospheric air. This process is


usually accomplished by introducing water vapor or by spraying fine droplets
of water that evaporate into the circulating air stream.

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