Physics Asked by kb4145 on January 1, 2021
I’ve been looking around for a way to calculate the humidity ratio by the partial vapor pressure and the atmospheric pressure of the environment.
I found a procedure for such calculation on engineering toolbox (https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/humidity-ratio-air-d_686.html).
There, it is explained that:
Based on the Ideal Gas Law, the humidity ratio can be expressed as:
x = 0.62198 pw / (pa – pw)
where
pw = partial pressure of water vapor in moist air (Pa, psi)
pa = atmospheric pressure of moist air (Pa, psi)
However, it is very unclear to me where they got the value 0.62198
from. I couldn’t find any explanation as to why this value is used and how is it obtained.
It is the ratio between the molar mass of water (about 18.01528g/mol) and the one of dry air (about 28.97g/mol).
Correct answer by Matteo V on January 1, 2021
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