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Room Absolute Humidity with Different Temperature

06/23/2014 4:20 PM

I have a question about a room absolute humidity.

One room has a wall heater. If the door is open and the heater is power on, I measured the temperature(T) and absolute humidity (AH) for inside and outside the room. Here T1 and AH1 for inside the room; T2 and AH2 for outside the room.

The measurement results show that T1>T2 and AH1>AH2. This is because higher temperature air has higher capability to hold much vapour.

I want to verify and theoretically model the room absolute humidity AH1. Here the outside room could be treated as infinite ambient.

Does anyone can help me? Thanks!

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Re: Room Absolute Humidity with Different Temperature

06/24/2014 11:54 PM

No one can help you because your problem statement is unbounded. Given the condition that T2 (and therefore AH2) are at ambient makes it very easy to postulate a "reductio ad absurdum" argument that in the long run T1 and AH1 will go to ambient.

Why? Because you have not bounded the size of the heater, room, door, heat transfer through the walls, or the ambient conditions. I can easily say that it's a 5 watt heater, the room is 100,000m³, the door is the size of one of the walls, the walls are cardboard, and the ambient is the conditions at the South Pole. Or I could take the equally absurd position that it's a 100kW heater, the room is 1m³, the door is the size of a mouse hole, the walls are perfect insulators, and the ambient is the moon.

Be an engineer, or at least a physicist, and put some numbers to your problem, dude.

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