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    CHAPTER V CALCULATIONS FOR THE CONDITIONED AIR SUPPLY Among the important questions that must be set- tled when designing air conditioning systems are those relating to the quantity and condition of the air supply, and the size of the refrigerating plant when one is to be installed. In this chapter, methods are developed for answering these questions for a wide variety of conditions. However, in order to understand and apply the methods that are pre- sented and finally used in the solution of actual problems, the preliminary material that follows should first be understood. Heating or Cooling With Air When heating rooms with a warm air supply, the air is heated to a higher point than the temperature to be maintained in the heated rom. As the warm air supply cools down to the ro6m temperature, it surrenders sufficient heat to‘offset the heat losses from the room. The temperature in a room is always equal to the temperature to which the air supply cools in giving up a quantity of heat equal to the heat losses. The amount of heat that an air supply surrenders in cooling from its initial to its final tem- perature can be calculated by means of Formula 1-2 of Chapter I. Obviously, if the room temperature is to be maintained, the amount of heat that the air can thus release must be equal to the heat losses of the room, or in formula form, ~ ag 0.24 x Wx TD \s-1) where 45 =change in the sensible heat content of the air supply, Bish ight of wir delivered to the heated room, Ib per hr tange in the dry bulb temperature of the air supply w a) In the actual work of designing air conditioning systems, air quantities are expressed directly in cfm of standard air; weight of air is seldom used. If the symbol Q is used to express the volume of air in cubic feet per minute (cfm) delivered to the conditioned 92 room, it must be converted into pounds of air per hour in order to use Formula 6-1. Therefore, 60Q equals the cubic feet of air delivered per hour. The volume of one pound of air under standard condi- tions is 13.34 cu ft. Dividing 60@ by this figure gives the weight of air delivered to the conditioned room each hour, or W=_60_Q 13.34 w= 459 If the volume of air delivered to a room each min- ute is known, this formula can be used to find the number of pounds of air delivered to the room each hour. Example 5-1: ‘An air supply of 3000 cfin is delivered to a condi- tioned room. Find the number of pounds of air de- livered to the room each hour. Solution: W=459 = 45 x 3000 13,500 Ib per hr In order to simplify arithmetical work, W can be eliminated entirely from Formula 6-1. This is ac- complished by substituting the quantity 4.5Q for W in Formula 5-1. By means of this substitution, Formula 5-1 becomes: Qs =0.24x4.5xQx TD ds = 1.08 x Qx TD cs Example 5-2: How much heat can an air supply of 2600 cfm provide if its initial temperature is 120 F and the room temperature is to be maintained at 70 F? CHAPTER V—CALCULATIONS FOR THE CONDITIONED AIR SUPPLY 93 20-70 0 Q = 1.08xQx TD 08 x 2600 x 50 = 140,400 Buh, heat that the air supply can provide In actual practice, the problem is rarely one of finding how much heat a given air supply can pro- vide. Usually, the problem is one of finding the quantity of air required and the temperature at which it should be supplied, in order to maintain a given temperature in a room, which has‘a certain heat loss. In actual heating practice the quantity of air delivered to a room is frequently fixed by the ventilating requirements. Under these conditions Formula 5-1a may be used to find the required tem- perature of the air supply. When Formula 5-1a is used to find the required temperature of the air de- livered to a heated room, it can be transposed to read as follows: (S-1a) (5-1b) Example 5-3: ‘The heat loss of a room is 150,000 Btuh. The venti- lating requirements of the room make it necessary to provide an air supply of 5000 cfm. At what tem- perature should the air be supplied to the con- ditioned room if itis to be maintained at 70 F? Solutior

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