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Mechanical Engineering · Q76

Heat And Mass Transfer

Engineering and GATE · Mechanical Engineering · question 76

Q76

Sensible heat factor is given by (where SHR = Sensible Heat Ratio and LHR = Latent Heat Ratio)

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Answer
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Answer: Option A

Solution

Answer: Option A
Solution:
Sensible Heat Ratio (SHR) - is used to describe the ratio of sensible heat load to total heat load and can be expressed as:

where,
SHR = sensible heat ratio (ratio of sensible heat load to total heat load)
= sensible heat load (kW, Btu/hr)
= total heat load - sensible heat and latent heat (kW, Btu/hr)
= latent heat load (kW, Btu/hr)
For an air flow (1) can be modified to:

where,
= specific heat air (1.005 kJ/kg°C, 0.240 Btu/lb°F)
= outlet air temperature (°C, °F)
= inlet air temperature (°C, °F)
= outlet moist air enthalpy (kJ/kg, Btu/lb)
= inlet moist air enthalpy (kJ/kg, Btu/lb)