moisture removal from lb/hr to btuh

[tikitime]

I am doing a load calc for a building that has an open water tank in it. I've found a formula for calculation the evaporation rate for the tank. However, my load software requires a value in btuh not lb/hr. How do I go about figuring out how many btuh this is?

The only thing I could find was:

latent = 0.68 x cfm x delta W

This does not help me since I do not know the cfm yet.

 

[IRstuff]

There should already be some postings in this forum about the same subject. Do a search

If I recall correctly, it's something like 12,000 BTUH equals one ton of air

TTFN

 

[imok2]

To evaporate 1 lb of water at atmospheric pressure requires 970 btu.

 

[IRstuff]

see:
thread403-45916

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