Moist Air - the Mollier Diagram
Air is a mixture of mostly oxygen, nitrogen and water vapor. The Mollier diagram is a graphic representation of the relationship between air temperature, moisture content and enthalpy, and is a basic design tool for building engineers and designers.
- common psychrometrics terms
The Mollier diagram is a variant of the psychrometric chart.
- Transform between Mollier diagram and psychrometric chart
Example - How to use the Mollier Chart
The state of air with dry bulb temperature 21 oC and relative humidity 50% is indicated in the Moliier chart below:
Alternatively - if the dry bulb temperature is 19 oC and the wet bulb temperature is 12 oC - the state of the air can be visualized in the Mollier chart like:
From the chart we can see that the enthalpy of the air is approximately 33 kJ/kg and the specific humidity is approximately 0.0056 kg/kg .
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Moist and humid air calculations. Psychrometric charts and Mollier diagrams. Air-condition systems temperatures, absolute and relative humidities and moisture content in air.
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