Determining Relative Humidity

If given a current temperature and relative humidity, I am interested in how to determine the relative humidity at a 2nd temperature, assuming all other relevant factors e.g.: dew point, absolute humidity, etc. remain constant.

Example: If T = t1 and RH = rh1, and temperature changes to t2, what then is rh2? (again, assuming nothing else changes that might affect RH in general.)

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Yes there are formulas out there. I’d have to do a lot of digging to find my old formulas. We used the formulas to determine enthalpy in the air. Then compare inside vs outside to see which is lower to determine going into economizer control. (Use of outside air to control the temp usually mixed air temp) if I recall it was a rather long formula.

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lol…I am a bit red-faced (usually it is just my buttocks after a session). But your flagrant use of the word “enthalpy” got me wound up…I honestly didn’t think doing a search on the bulky, ambiguous set of terms “how can I determine new relative humidity from current temperature and relative humidity” would return anything helpful, but it did (although I’ve no way to validate accuracy of results:

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There exists a formula for a reasonable approximation from about freezing to a few hundred degrees. I think it is cited in some ASHRAE standards. Way back in the windows 3.11 days, I worked for a company that wrote software to do manual J calculations, DoE energy loads and similar. I had worked on the “toolbox” program that had a lot of these little calculators built in, and back in ‘94 had actually found some of the references online. Sadly, a couple of years ago I was looking for the same thing, and had no luck finding it.

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Hmm. Some of what you are looking for might be here:

There are a lot of different processes you can do to air, and while you are asking a valid question, it probably isn’t in the top 10 from a HVAC engineer perspective. It almost might be more readily apparent from a meteorological study of psychrometrics, in that they usually aren’t heating/cooling the air mechanically.

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