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psychrometrics: a standalone construct

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psychrometrics1 CONSTRUCTPsychrometricsCARRIER · 1911

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HVAC engineering

The thermodynamics of moist air

Psychrometrics is the study of the thermodynamic properties of moist air (the mixture of dry air and water vapour) and how those properties change as air is heated, cooled, humidified, or dried. It ties together dry-bulb and wet-bulb temperature, humidity, dew point, and enthalpy on a single chart that air-conditioning engineers use to design cooling, heating, and dehumidification processes. Carrier's 1911 Rational psychrometric formulae gave the field its working equations and underpins the psychrometric chart. The referent is the property framework for moist air that governs air-conditioning design.[1]

Unit
The coupled temperature, humidity, and enthalpy properties of moist air
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Read from dry-bulb and wet-bulb temperatures and located on the psychrometric chart

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References

  1. Carrier, W. H. (1911). Rational psychrometric formulae: Their relation to the problems of meteorology and of air conditioning. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 33, 1005–1039. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4060116

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