3)
You are a research engineer working for a cancer research center. Your next set of experiments
with clinical samples require the relative humidity of the laboratory to be greater than 75%. Just before the
experiments, you measure dry and wet bulb temperatures, which found to be 25°C and 20°C, respectively.
Determine,
(a) the absolute (specific) humidity,
(b) the relative humidity to see if you can start the experiments.
(c) What would be the relative humidity if the lab temperature is reduced to 20°C with keeping the
absolute humidity constant? Does this satisfy the required experiment condition?
Assume an ambient pressure of 90 kPa and the specific heat at constant pressure is 1.005 kJ/kgC. Use
data from the tables and do not use psychrometric chart to estimate the answers.