Steam Humidifiers

Steam humidifiers may receive heat input either from a remote heat source or by local electric heating. Condensation in the downstream duct may be prevented by specifying a maximum downstream relative humidity.

      Toolbar button for placement of a steam humidifier

     Steam humidifier component

 

Enter a description of the component. The reference is limited to 100 characters. It is for your use when selecting, organizing, and referencing any component or controllers within other component and controller dialogs and in the component browser tree. These references can be valuable in organizing and navigating the system and when the system model is later re-used on another project or passed on to another modeler. Reference names should thus be informative with respect to differentiating similar equipment, components, and controllers.

 

 

Enter the maximum rate of moisture input from the steam humidifiers to the air stream.

 

 

Enter the total efficiency of the steam humidifiers. This parameter is used to relate the total heat input to the air stream to the energy used to generate that input (i.e. it is used to take the energy input to the air stream back to a primary energy consumption.)

 

 

In actual applications, steam injection is normally limited to avoid the risk of condensation in the downstream duct. This RH high-limit cut-out value should be entered here.

 

 

A steam humidifier may be supplied with steam from a heat source. If this is the case then enter the reference of the heat source. If you do not select a heat source the humidifier uses local electric heating.