When it comes to conditioning a home’s sensible and latent heat loads, sizing a heat pump correctly is the most effective step an HVAC contractor can take. “Without properly sizing the system for the ...

News4 First Alert Meteorologist Zack Webster explains the safest places to be during a lightning storm. A complex of showers and thunderstorms could bring some gusty winds and pockets of hail to ...

Meteorologist Zack Webster explains why the air feels much hotter when hot temperatures combine with high humidity.

Lehigh engineers have engineered, built, and tested an innovative thermal energy storage prototype system that combines sensible and latent heat transfer to achieve fast and efficient thermal ...

Two-phase cooling, which utilizes both the sensible and latent heat of water, offers unmatched performance. However, managing vapor bubbles and designing microchannels remain major hurdles.

The evaporator, like the condenser, acts as a heat exchanger. Heat and humidity (sensible and latent heat) from the conditioned space travel through the sidewalls of the evaporator coil and vaporize ...

But this approach is limited by water’s sensible heat—the energy it can absorb before boiling. In comparison, the latent heat released during boiling is roughly seven times higher, offering ...

Researchers at Politecnico di Torino in Italy are testing how latent heat thermal storage (LHTS) could be used in combination with rooftop PV to achieve nearly zero-energy buildings (NZEB).

Specific latent heat is the amount of energy required to change the state of 1 kilogram (kg) of a material without changing its temperature. As there are two boundaries, solid/liquid and liquid ...