Calculate the rate of water removal from the condenser


An air conditioner is used to cool and dehumidify air. We will ignore the temperature aspect and model the air conditioner as a partial condenser. Humid air can be considered a mixture of two components: dry air and water vapor. Fresh feed air containing 3.00% water entering at a rate of 50.0 kg/min is mixed with a recycle stream of previously dehumidified air. All compositions are measured by mass. The mixture enters a condenser that removes a portion of the water in one stream (as pure liquid water). The second stream exiting the condenser contains air of lower humidity, specifically 1.50% water. 70.0% of that air is recycled, as mentioned earlier, and the rest is delivered to a house.

Carefully and completely label the flowchart for this process.

Calculate the rate of water removal from the condenser, the rate of dehumidified (1.50% water) air delivered to the house, and the flow rate and composition of the humid air entering the condenser.

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Mechanical Engineering: Calculate the rate of water removal from the condenser
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