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Piwoslaw · 09-26-11, 02:53 PM

This got me wondering: If you have a pound (or cubic foot, or whatever) of moist, post-bath air, and you separate the moisture from it, then which part has more (thermal) energy: the moisture or the dry air, both at the same temperature? I'd think that the amount of heat that can be reclaimed will come mostly from the phase change of condensing the steam, than from dry part of that unit of air.

I'd do the math to get a rough estimate of the proportions, but it's late here, and I've been fighting a cold all day, so what brains I had were blown into my handkerchief

09-26-11, 02:53 PM	#6
Piwoslaw Super Moderator Join Date: May 2009 Location: Warsaw, Poland Posts: 964 Thanks: 190 Thanked 111 Times in 87 Posts	This got me wondering: If you have a pound (or cubic foot, or whatever) of moist, post-bath air, and you separate the moisture from it, then which part has more (thermal) energy: the moisture or the dry air, both at the same temperature? I'd think that the amount of heat that can be reclaimed will come mostly from the phase change of condensing the steam, than from dry part of that unit of air. I'd do the math to get a rough estimate of the proportions, but it's late here, and I've been fighting a cold all day, so what brains I had were blown into my handkerchief __________________ Ecorenovation - the bottomless piggy bank that tries to tame the energy hog.