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moisture removal from lb/hr to btuh

moisture removal from lb/hr to btuh

moisture removal from lb/hr to btuh

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I am doing a load calc for a building that has an open water tank in it.  I've found a formula for calculation the evaporation rate for the tank.  However, my load software requires a value in btuh not lb/hr.  How do I go about figuring out how many btuh this is?  

The only thing I could find was:  

latent = 0.68 x cfm x delta W

This does not help me since I do not know the cfm yet.

RE: moisture removal from lb/hr to btuh

There should already be some postings in this forum about the same subject.  Do a search

If I recall correctly, it's something like 12,000 BTUH equals one ton of air

TTFN

RE: moisture removal from lb/hr to btuh

To evaporate 1 lb of water at atmospheric pressure  requires 970 btu.

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