Home work practice problems Q1.

) A greenhouse at a zoo in Stuttgart has air at a temperature t = 25 0 C, pressure p = 1bar and relative humidity = 0.6. a) Calculate the specific humidity of the air in the greenhouse. b) Calculate the density of the dry air at 250 C and 1 bar. ( x = 0.0136 ) ( = 1.157 kg/m3 )

c) Give the relationship (ratio) between the density of the dry air and humid air. ( dry air / humid air > 1 ) d) In order that the visitors are able to look through the glass walls of the greenhouse, what is the minimum possible temperature of the glass walls so as to avoid the film of the condensed water vapor on the glass walls? ( Tglass walls = 18.40 C ) Water vapor and dry air are considered to be prefect gases with: Rdry air = 0.29 J.K-1.g-1 and Rvapor = 0.46 J.K-1.g-1 Equation for the calculating the saturated vapor pressure. Ps (T) = a. Exp (-b/T + c); a = 0.0233 bar, b = 6793.6 K, c = 23.2

Q2.) Following two streams are mixed in a mixing chamber: Stream A at a temperature tA = 460 C and relative humidity A 50%. Stream B of absolute dry air at a temperature tB = 00 C. After mixing the resulting stream has a specific humidity of x 2 = 12 g /kgdry air and relative humidity less than 2 < 90%. a) What is the value of pressure of the streams before and after mixing? (Hint: same ,use appropriate diagram of hx+1 ) b) What is the temperature of the resulting mixed stream? Now the pressure of this mixed stream is changed isothermally such that the resulting stream has the relative humidity of 3 = 35%. (Hint: you have to change the hx+1 diagram) c) What is the total pressure of the resulting stream? d) Does the change in pressure results in the change of the enthalpy h1+x? Justify your answer. (Hint: It is given that they behave like a perfect gas) Now we begin to add absolute water vapor at temperature t D = 263.150 C to this stream until the resultant stream exhibits a relative humidity of 4 = 50%. Finally this stream was made saturated with the liquid water at Tw = 59.50 C e) Calculate the temperature t5 of the final stream. Solve the problem using the h1+x , x diagram. Dry air and vapor can be assumed to be perfect gases. The specific heat of water vapor is cp = 1.9 J/ (g. K) The specific heat of liquid water is cp = 4.2 J/ (g. K) Hints: You just have to calculate enthalpy of the water vapor and water, other than that all information can be extracted from the diagram(s).