Psychrometry can determine properties like dew point, wet-bulb temperature, and enthalpy using the chart and equations. HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning), meteorology, agriculture, and manufacturing all use psychrometry. As an example, it's used to design and optimize HVAC ...
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(The temperature in the forecast is technically a dry-bulb temperature, since it’s measured with a dry thermometer.) Wet-bulb temperature can estimate what your skin temperature would be if you were constantly sweating, so it’s often used to approximate how people would fare in extreme...
How to Calculate Energy Consumption of Appliances. Power is the rate at which a device uses energy. So for instance an air conditioning unit, shower or kitchen range/cooker uses electrical energy much faster than a light bulb. Power is normally written on a label or embossed into the plastic...
How to Plant and Store Garlic By: Gayle A. Alleman Rocambole, purple stripe, silverskin -- there are many options when it comes to garlic. The type you choose and how you prepare it combine to determine its healing properties and flavor. You can even grow your own, and you don't hav...
When sizing a replacement system, I ask the client to provide cycle timing data, which I explain how to do. From that, I can determine the load (and thus size the replacement system) with greater accuracy than the most precise load calc. ...
Kale grows best when the average temperature ranges between 60° and 65°F. Kale is commonly started indoors and transplanted into the garden when seedlings are 4 to 6 weeks old. Sow seeds indoors or outdoors 4 to 6 weeks before the last frost in spring or as soon as the soil can be ...
you need energy to heat water. therefore, if you can get clean without using so much hot water, you'll save. but which uses more hot water, a bath or a shower? this experiment will help you determine that. ask everybody in your household to take a bath instead of a shower when ...
Plant potatoes as early as 4 to 6 weeks before the average last frost in spring or any time after the soil temperature warms to 40°F (4.4°C). Potatoes need 75 to 135 or more cool, frost-free days to reach harvest depending on the variety. ...
There is no way to determine the gender of a plant initially, just by looking at the seeds, or even by looking at young plants. Both male and female cannabis plants look exactly the same until they start flowering. There used to be myths and tricks on how to tell male from female plan...