Mechanics of the Household: A Course of Study Devoted to Domestic Machinery and Household Mechanical AppliancesKeene, E. S. (Edward Spencer)
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Mechanics of the Household: A Course of Study Devoted to Domestic Machinery and Household Mechanical Appliances
Keene, E. S. (Edward Spencer)
Heating; Lighting; Plumbing
In using the table on page 214, the open diagonal line may be
considered the danger line and any dew-point falling below the
temperature thus indicated will be considered dangerously near the
frost point. This table differs from the other dew-point table only
in the range of temperature. The dew-point is found in exactly the
same way as before. In the use of the psychrometer and table as a
means of frost prediction it is first necessary to make a reading of
the wet-bulb and dry-bulb temperature described above. The dry-bulb
reading is found in the left-hand column of the table; then follow the
horizontal line opposite the figure, till the perpendicular column
is reached indicating the difference in reading between the dry and
wet bulb. The number at the meeting will be the temperature of the
dew-point. For example, suppose the dry bulb stands at 65° and the
wet bulb at 55°, the difference being 10° and dew-point under these
conditions will be 47°.
If the dew-point is 10° or more above the freezing point there is
no danger of a frost, but if the conditions are such as to give a
temperature difference less than 10° above the freezing point there
would be danger. If the dew-point falls below the open diagonal line of
the table there is danger and that danger increases as the difference
in degrees between the freezing point and the dew-point becomes less.
As another illustration, suppose that at sunset at the time of
suspected frost the dry-bulb thermometer read 54 and the depression of
the wet bulb showed 10°. Referring to the table it will be seen that
for these conditions the dew-point falls at 33 which is only 1° above
the freezing point. It is highly probable that frost would form.
DEW-POINT TABLE FOR FROST PREDICTION
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