[DeTomaso] WANTED :Meriah fans and door glass

[John Bentley]

oh, ok.  It sounded like you might have known something about the process that I missed.  Every property that I know about is different between moist and dry air (of course as a pilot you know the adiabatic lapse rate is different) so I thought you could explain this.

Moist air has higher thermal conductivity and higher specific heat than dry air which would both indicate better heat transfer.  When you said heat is heat, I didn't understand what you were talking about.

JB



--- On Fri, 5/6/11, MikeLDrew at aol.com <MikeLDrew at aol.com> wrote:

From: MikeLDrew at aol.com <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] WANTED :Meriah fans and door glass
To: gndplne at yahoo.com, rspink2012 at yahoo.com, cadroit1 at aol.com, detomaso at realbig.com
Date: Friday, May 6, 2011, 6:24 PM



In a message dated 5/6/11 17 51 11, gndplne at yahoo.com writes:







What property causes the heat transfer to be the same between dry and saturated air?





A more relevant question would be--what property would cause the heat transfer to be different?



I'm no expert, but I've never seen anything to suggest that anything other than pure temperature influences the performance of a cooling system.   Wikipedia seems to indicate that as well (scroll down to 'theory of operation' at the bottom of this entry):



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiator



Mike