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Once you learn to see the air through these lines, you will never look at a cloudy window or a sweat glass of iced tea the same way again. You are seeing psychrometrics in action. Standard psychrometric charts are published by ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers) and are available for various altitudes.
Air is invisible. Yet, for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) engineers, it is a complex mixture of gases, water vapor, and energy. To visualize this invisible world, engineers rely on one of the most elegant and powerful tools ever developed: The Psychrometric Chart . psychrometric graph
These are straight horizontal lines measuring the actual mass of water vapor per mass of dry air (grains/lb or g/kg). This tells you how much moisture is in the air. Once you learn to see the air through
These are slightly sloped diagonal lines indicating the volume occupied by a unit mass of dry air (cubic feet per pound). This is critical for sizing fans and ducts. Air is invisible