The Mollier diagram and the Psychrometric Chart（莫利尔图和湿度图）.pdf

The Mollier diagram and the Psychrometric Chart If you think that the slightly skew edges of your Mollier or Psychrometric diagram are the result of multiple passes of the image through bad copier optics, then this article is for you. One can make a reasonable career in preventive conservation, and carve out a position of influence and power, through understanding this one diagram. It describes all the properties of moist air that the conservator needs to know. A thorough understanding of how the diagram is constructed is a great help in using it, particularly when exploring thermal properties of moist air. The Mollier Diagram The Mollier Diagram is the European version of the Anglo-American Psychrometric Chart. They are identical in content but not in appearance. I will describe first the Mollier diagram and then show the simple transformation that changes it into the psychrometric chart. The Mollier diagram, also called the ix diagram, is based on the relationship between heat content and water vapour content of air. The heat, or energy, content is difficult to measure directly, so the diagram is cunningly distorted to give the illusion of being based on the relationship between temperature and relative humidity and water vapour content. Temperature is easy to measure, relative humidity is considered by some people to be easy to measure and so the diagram is transformed into a useful tool. The enthalpy of moist air Heat content is called enthalpy in the jargon of the air conditioning engineer, so I will use this word from now on. It is measured in Joules. By convention, the enthalpies of both water and dry air are defined to be zero at zero degrees Celsius. To obtain the enthalpy of moist air at any temperature we need to calculate three quantities: how much heat needs to be used to vapourise the water, how much heat is needed to warm the water vapour to the required air temp