Air Density Corrections
Air Density Corrections
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I'm looking for an Excel spreadsheet that gives me the air density at different temperatures and altitudes.
The project involves a cooling tower heat load and the temperature range is from 75F - 115F at an altitude of 1640 ft
Thanks in advance.
The project involves a cooling tower heat load and the temperature range is from 75F - 115F at an altitude of 1640 ft
Thanks in advance.





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there a lots of tables you can copy, some refs may have equations ...
you'll probably need to remember high school chemistry to correct for your non-standard temperatures
good luck
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I want to be able to vary the inlet and outlet air properties for a cooling tower without interpolating for every value I choose.
I don't need to know the density is the same as it would be at 4000 ft, then compare that to the outlet which could be equivalent to 8000 ft.
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"gives me the air density at different temperatures and altitudes,"
which sounds a lot like you wanted a density altitude equation.
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Does anyone have a Excel spreadsheet or can you provide the formulas to determine the air densities at different temperatures and altitudes?
This is a cooling tower application and the altitude is 1640 ft. My calculations revolve around temperatures in the 75F - 125F range.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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The effect of altitude on atmospheric pressure was discussed recently in the HVAC/R forum. See thread403-121661
Using the equation given there by quark (and confirmed by 25362) you can calculate that your atmospheric pressure at an altitude of 1620 ft (500m) will be 95.45 kPa abs.
Once you have the pressure you can plug it into the ideal gas equation (PV = nRT) and solve for density (= 1/V) as a function of temperature. This gives
Density (kg/m3) = 332.46 / T
where T is temperature in Kelvin
This will be very easy to put into a spreadsheet. If you want to check your numbers there is a gas density calculator that is part of the gas mass to volume converter built into Uconeer. This is a free engineering units conversion program available from www.katmarsoftware.com
However, you must remeber that all these calculations are based on *dry* air. If you are doing calculations for a cooling tower your air will be wet, and the moisture content will be changing.
If you know the moisture content you could adjust the solution to the ideal gas law given above to take the varying molecular weight into account. Or let the spreadsheet do this for you.
Or you could just short-circuit the whole thing and download the free psychrometric calculator from
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