You have to note that pure substances can be elements or compounds. There is only one component all throughout. On the other hand, a mixture is a combination of different elements and compounds. They can appear in different phases. For example, air is a mixture. It is composed of pure substances of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen.
Answer:
(a) The proportion of dry air bypassing the unit is 14.3%.
(b) The mass of water removed is 1.2 kg per 100 kg of dry air.
Explanation:
We can express the proportion of air that goes trough the air conditioning unit as and the proportion of air that is by-passed as , being .
The amount of water that goes into the drier inlet has to be 0.004 kg/kg, and can be expressed as:
Replacing the first equation in the second one we have
(b) Of every kg of dry air feed, 85.7% goes in to the air conditioning unit.
It takes (0.016-0.002)=0.014 kg water per kg dry air feeded.
The water removed of every 100 kg of dry air is
It can also be calculated as the difference in humiditiy between the inlet and the outlet: (0.016-0.004=0.012 kgW/kDA) and multypling by the total amount of feed (100 kgDA).
100 * 0.012 = 1.2 kgW