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Humidity and Its Measurements

Humidity and its measurements discusses different types of humidity measurements including absolute humidity, relative humidity, and specific humidity. Absolute humidity is the total mass of water vapor in a given air volume, but does not consider temperature. Relative humidity is the ratio of the actual water vapor pressure to the saturation vapor pressure at a given temperature. Specific humidity is the ratio of water vapor content to total air content on a mass basis. The document provides an example calculation of determining relative humidity given dry bulb and wet bulb temperatures.

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Humidity and Its Measurements

Humidity and its measurements discusses different types of humidity measurements including absolute humidity, relative humidity, and specific humidity. Absolute humidity is the total mass of water vapor in a given air volume, but does not consider temperature. Relative humidity is the ratio of the actual water vapor pressure to the saturation vapor pressure at a given temperature. Specific humidity is the ratio of water vapor content to total air content on a mass basis. The document provides an example calculation of determining relative humidity given dry bulb and wet bulb temperatures.

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Humidity and its measurements

Introduction
• It is defined as the water-vapour content of the air
• Normal atmospheric air in most of the cases is humid
• The capacity of air to hold moisture increases with temperature
• Higher humidity reduces the effectiveness of sweating in
cooling the body by reducing the rate of evaporation of
moisture from the skin.
• Humans are sensitive to humid air because the human body
uses evaporative cooling as the primary mechanism to regulate
temperature.
Types of Humidity
• There are three main measurements of humidity;

– Absolute humidity

– Relative humidity

– Specific humidity
Absolute humidity
• Absolute humidity is the total mass of water vapor present in
a given volume of air.

• It does not take temperature into consideration.

• Absolute humidity in the atmosphere ranges from near zero


to roughly 30 grams per cubic meter when the air is saturated
at 30 °C.

• Absolute humidity is the mass of the water vapor (H2O),


divided by the volume of the air and water vapor mixture ,
which can be expressed as:
Absolute humidity
• This is rarely used in mine ventilation analysis.

• Volume of air passing through ventilation system keeps


changing because of variation in temperature and pressure.

• Thus, use of absolute humidity is discouraged


Specific Humidity
• Specific humidity is a ratio of the water vapor content
of the mixture to the total air content on a mass
basis.

• Mathematically it is expressed as follow:


Relative humidity
• It is defined as the ratio of vapour pressure at a temperature
to the saturation vapour pressure at that dry bulb
temperature.

• It can also be defined as “the amount of water vapors in the


air divided by the maximum amount of water the air can hold
at any given temperature”

• It should be kept in mind that for calculating relative humidity,


saturation vapour pressure is taken at dry bulb temperature
and not at wet bulb temperature.
Relative Humidity
• Numerically it can be expressed as:

Td = Dry Bulb Temperature oC


Tw = Wet Bulb Temperature oC
Problem
• if we have a dry bulb temperature of 25℃
and a wet bulb temperature of 18℃ what is
the relative humidity?
S. Method Apparatus Details /Principle used
No /Instruments
. used

01 Thermodynamic Psychrometers Measuring wet bulb and dry bulb temperatures, and
method applying various equations

02 Using hygroscopic Hair Substances generally used are organic like bones, hair etc.
substances hygrometers They are prone to volumetric and elasticity change when
exposed to moisture

03 Condensation Dew-point Cooling of air lowers the temperature but not the actual
method hygrometers vapour pressure (AVP) of water content in it. We know that
saturation vapour pressure(SVP) is proportional to
temperature. Lowering of temperature causes lowering of
SVP, and a time comes when at a particular temperature
SVP equals AVP.

04 Absorption Some of the chemical compounds (like calcium chloride,


silica gel, etc.) are hygroscopic in nature. Through them a
methods measured amount of air is passed. These compounds
absorb water from the air. The increase in their weight
A) Chemical gives a direct measure of the water vapour content of the
method air.

B) Electrical Electronic psychrometers or humidity meters- Some of the


compounds or semi-conductors show change in their
methods resistivity and other electromagnetic properties in moist

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