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How to calculate the cooling coil capacity

In this article guide, I will use an example problem to calculate the cooling coil capacity.

Example 1: 
Air at 27 deg dry bulb and at a ow of 1 m3/sec and 60% relative humidity is cooled and dehumidi ed. Accordingly, the temperature of the exiting air is 16 deg and at 80%
relative humidity.

You need to use the psychrometric chart shown below in order to calculate the total cooling coil capacity.

Solution:

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Calculating the cooling coil capacity

You rst add point 1 on the chart at 60% relative humidity line and at 27 degrees as shown in the x-axis (dry bulb temperature). Additionally, you extract the speci c enthalpy
for point 1 as shown in the chart below. Next, you add point 2 on the chart above at 80% relative humidity and at 16 degrees Celsius. In the same way, you extract the speci c
enthalpy for point 2.

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cooling coil capacity – extracting enthalpy

To calculate the total load of the air handling unit you will use the following thermodynamic rule:

Q = Air mass ow rate x (Enthalpy point 1  –  Enthalpy point 2)

Q= Cooling Load in KW

Enthalpy point 1 = 67 Kj/kg

Enthalpy point 2 = 38 Kj/kg

Accordingly, you need to remember that you still don’t have the air mass ow rate, in order to calculate it you need the speci c volume of air at point 1. Therefore, you need to
use the psychrometric chart again to extract that information:

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psychrometric chart – Specific volume

As shown in the gure above, the green line is between 0.85 and 0.9, it is actually 0.878. Consequently, now you can calculate the air mass ow:

Air Mass Flow Rate= (1 / 0.878) = 0.878 kg/s

Finally, using the total load equation ‘Q‘, you can insert all the values extracted from the psychrometric chart:

Q= 0.878 x (67 – 38) = 25.4 Kw

In the next article, we will learn how to calculate the sensible and latent heat loads using the psychrometric chart.

This article is part of a series of documents discussing HVAC Design, stay tuned for more design guides.

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