An adiabatic humidifier will be used to cool air at 45oC to30oC. Make up water is available at 25oC.

Assume an entering water mass velocity of 1200 kg/m2-hr and dryair mass velocity of 1000 kg/m2-hr.
Over-all heat transfercoefficient based on the air is 200 W/m3-K. If the air entersat 2000 L/min,
determine:a) Absolute Humidities of entering and exit airb) Mass Rates of Entering and Make Up
Waterc) Column Diameterd) Height of Packinge) Mass Transfer Coefficient, ky

a ) Absolute humidity of air entering and leaving: tas := T T := 25 Ps := 3.1699 kPa P := 101.325
H(tas ,t)
t1 := 45 twb := T = 25 Pwb := 3.1699 P := 101.325

−4
Pw = Pwb − 6.5 × 10
 ( ) ( )
⋅ 1 + 0.000944⋅ twb  ⋅ P⋅ t − twb t2 := 30

−4 −4
Pw1 := Pwb − 6.5 × 10
 ( ) ( )
⋅ 1 + 0.000944⋅ twb  ⋅ P⋅ t1 − twb = 1.822
 Pw2 := Pwb − 6.5 × 10
 ( ) ( )
⋅ 1 + 0.000944⋅ twb  ⋅ P⋅ t2 − twb = 2.833

Pw1 18
Hum1 := ⋅ = 0.01136 Pw2 18
P − Pw1 29 Hum2 := ⋅ = 0.01785
P − Pw2 29

Gw := 1000
b) Mass rate of water enetring and makeUp water: L2 and M
2000⋅ 60

VH :=
(
0.08205⋅ t1 + 273 ) ⋅  1+
Hum1 
 = 0.916
m
3
w :=
1000
= 130.977 S :=
w
= 0.131 D :=
4⋅ S
= 0.408
P  29 18  kgda VH Gw π
101.325

kg
GL2 := 1200 L2 := GL2⋅ S = 157.172
hr

( )
kg
M := w⋅ Hum2 − Hum1 = 0.84996
hr
 d ) HTE: ( Hum1 + Hum2)
( )
kJ
w⋅ Csm⋅ t1 − t2 = UG⋅ a⋅ S⋅ Z⋅ ∆T lm⋅ 3.6 UGa := 200 Csm := 1.005 + 1.884⋅ = 1.033
2 kgK

∆T lm :=
( ) (
t1 − T − t2 − T )
= 10.82
 t1 − T 
ln  
 t2 − T 
z :=
(
w⋅ Csm⋅ t1 − t2 ) = 1.988
UGa⋅ S⋅ ∆T lm⋅ 3.6

e) Ps = 3.17
MTE

Ps ( Hi − Hum1) − ( Hi − Hum2)
( )
18
w⋅ Hum2 − Hum1 = Kya⋅ S⋅ z⋅ ∆H lm Hi := ⋅ = 0.02005 ∆H lm := = 0.004716
P − Ps 29  Hi − Hum1 
ln  
 Hi − Hum2 

kya :=
(
w⋅ Hum2 − Hum1 )
= 692.184 kg.water/hr-m3-∆H
S⋅ z⋅ ∆H lm