A cooling unit of capacity 1 TR is designed to supply fully saturated air

to a perfectly insulated and sealed room measuring 5mX5mX3m. Air

enters the above unit at “on coil temperature” DB/WB=25°C/18°C
and flow rate of 300 cfm.
1. What is the off coil temperature?
2. Having a perfectly insulated and sealed room, the on coil
temperature will be reduced gradually until theoretically the
room temperature reach the off coil temperature. How long, in
minutes, does it take until the room temperature and off coil
temperature are equal?

Solution:
1. We can determine the properties of the air at on/off coil from the
below link for psychrometric properties:

http://www.sugartech.co.za/psychro/index.php

Air properties at on coil DB/WB= 25°C/18°C (air in “ai”)

hai KJ/kg 𝝎𝒂𝒊 𝑘𝑔𝑤 /𝑘𝑔𝑎 𝜗𝑎𝑖 𝑚3 /𝑘𝑔

50.7 0.01 0.86

𝒎∗𝒂 = 𝟑𝟎𝟎 cfm = 0.142 𝑚3 /𝑠

𝒎∗𝒂 = 0.142 𝑚3 /s ÷ 0.86 𝑚3 /𝑘𝑔 = 0.165 𝑘𝑔/𝑠

Design off coil temperature:

Design Cooling Load Q = 1TR = 3.517 kW

𝑸 = 𝒎𝒂∗ × ∆𝒉 → ∆ℎ = 3.517 ÷ 0.165 = 19.13 kJ/kg

∆h=hon coil-hoff coil→hoff coil=50.7-19.13=31.4 kJ/kg
The air is fully saturated when RH=100% and DB=WB

hoff coil=31.4 kJ/kg and RH=100%. These two properties fix the state of
the off coil temp. Other properties of the off coil are determined
from the above link:

Air properties at off coil temperature (or air out “ao”)

DB °C WB °C hao KJ/kg 𝝎𝒂𝒐 𝑘𝑔𝑤 /𝑘𝑔𝑎 𝜗𝑎𝑖 𝑚3 /𝑘𝑔

10.9 10.9 31.4 0.0081 0.814

2. The room is perfectly sealed and insulated, thus as we mix at the first time

step, the temperature will be reduced, and then the next time step the

temperature will be reduced even further, etc. hence we would need to

solve it as a transient problem and theoretically, the room temperature

should reach 10.9 C.

In fact, there is no easy way to calculate the time except knowing the heat

extraction rate and the initial condition. basically, we will treat the cooling

coil as a black box that is just providing 1 TR= 3.517 kW of cooling. in this

case:

State 1: on coil air properties 25/18

State 2: off coil air properties 10.9/10.9

𝑢1 = ℎ1 − 𝑝1 𝜗1 → 𝑢1 = 50.7 𝐾𝐽/𝑘𝑔 − (1.013 𝐾𝑁/𝑚2 × 0.86 𝑚3 /𝑘𝑔) →

𝒖𝟏 = 𝟒𝟗. 𝟖𝟑 𝑲𝑱/𝒌𝒈
𝑢2 = ℎ2 − 𝑝1 𝜗2 → 𝑢1 = 31.4 𝐾𝐽/𝑘𝑔 − (1.013 𝐾𝑁/𝑚2 × 0.814 𝑚3 /𝑘𝑔) →

𝒖𝟐 = 𝟑𝟎. 𝟓𝟕 𝑲𝑱/𝒌𝒈

𝑉 5×5×3
𝑚1 = = = 87.21 𝑘𝑔
𝜗1 0.86

𝑚2 = 𝑚1 [1 − (𝜔1 − 𝜔2 )] → 𝑚2 = 87.21[1 − (0.01 − 0.0081)] →

𝑚2 = 87.0 𝑘𝑔

𝑘𝐽
3.517 × 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 = 𝑚1 𝑢1 − 𝑚2 𝑢2 →
𝑠

𝑘𝐽
3.517 × 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 = (87.21 × 49.83) − (87.0 × 30.57) = 1,686.08
𝑠

𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 = 𝟒𝟕𝟗. 𝟒𝟏 𝒔 = 𝟖. 𝟎 𝒎𝒊𝒏