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Psychrometric Chart

The psychrometric chart allows users to determine various temperature and humidity measurements like dry bulb, wet bulb, relative humidity, and dew point temperature with only limited initial information. It is a useful tool, especially for HVAC professionals, to understand human comfort levels under different temperature and humidity conditions. By locating the dry bulb temperature and relative humidity on the chart, it shows the corresponding wet bulb temperature, dew point temperature, and how changes in one factor impact the others.

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Psychrometric Chart

The psychrometric chart allows users to determine various temperature and humidity measurements like dry bulb, wet bulb, relative humidity, and dew point temperature with only limited initial information. It is a useful tool, especially for HVAC professionals, to understand human comfort levels under different temperature and humidity conditions. By locating the dry bulb temperature and relative humidity on the chart, it shows the corresponding wet bulb temperature, dew point temperature, and how changes in one factor impact the others.

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Psychrometric Chart

The psychrometric chart is a handy tool that enables the reader to determine and calculate dry bulb,
wet bulb, relative humidity, dew point temperature as well as other gas-vapor relationships with only
limited information. This chart helps people, especially involved in heating, ventilating and air-
conditioning systems, to determine human comfort levels in relationship to changes in temperature
and humidity. With limited information, the reader can determine how changes in one aspect of
temperature, humidity or pressure will effect the others.

Reading Instructions

1. Determine the dry bulb temperature at your location. This can be done by reading a simple
thermometer at your location.

2. Determine the relative humidity at your location. This can be done by reading a hygrometer at
your location, or by obtaining the information from a local weather station.

3. Locate the temperature value measured in Step 1 on the bottom (X) axis of the psychrometric
chart. Follow the line indicated by this value vertically until you reach the intersecting line of the
value you obtained from your hygrometer. The lines indicating relative humidity start at the
bottom left of the chart and radiate toward the upper right of the chart increasing in value from
the bottom of the chart to the top.

4. Follow the diagonal line from where the dry-bulb and relative humidity lines intersected to the
upper left. Where this line meets the left side of the chart indicates the wet-bulb temperature. This
value is can also be obtained through measurement using a sling psychrometer.

5. Follow the line where the relative humidity and dry bulb temperature meet to the left hand
edge of the chart along the horizontal line to obtain the dew point temperature at your location as
measured above. With this data you can determine how humidity, dew point temperature and
wet-bulb temperature will be effected by changes in dry bulb temperature and vice versa.

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