Air at 27oC and 50% relative humidity is cooled in a sensible cooling process to 18oC. The air is then heated to 45oC in a sensible heating process. Finally, the air experiences an adiabatic saturation process that increases the relative humidity back to 50%. Find the specific energy that is removed when the air is cooled to 18°C.

Air inially occupying a volume of 1 m2 at 100 kpa, 27 c undergoes three internally reversible processes in series. process 1-2 compression to 500 kpa during which pv constant process 2-3 adiabatic expanslon to 100 kpa process 3-1: constant-pressure expansion to 100 kpa (a) calculate the change of entropy for each of the three processes. (b) calculate the heat and work involved in each process. (c) is this cycle a power cycle or refrigeration cycle?