She spread it across the folding table in the attic of the abandoned textile mill, the afternoon heat pressing against the single round window like a held breath. The chart’s title read, in careful serif letters: Psychrometric Chart – Barometric Pressure 29.92 inHg .
She made a small cross next to the dot and wrote: Condition 1 – Return Air . Then she calculated the supply air needed: 55°F at 90% relative humidity, right on the saturation curve. She drew a straight line between the two points—the condition line . Its slope told her the sensible heat ratio: how much of the cooling was actually dropping temperature versus pulling out moisture. psychrometric chart
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