What is the difference between wet-bulb temperature and adiabatic saturation temperature?

Answer 1

Wet bulb refers to a measurement of air temperature. It measures how the air temperature "feels".

Adiabatic describes a Thermodynamic process. An adiabatic process means that it is reversible without energy loss which is ideal and doesn't really exist. The saturation temperature is the temperature at which gas begins to condense it liquid. For example, we all know that water boils at 100C or 212F. Thats the saturation temperature for water....at 101C or 213F, it's a gas as it nears 212, water droplets form and its completely "saturated".

These two things aren't really related. At all.

Answer 2

Thermodynamic Wet Bulb Temperature

Answer 3

this two are pretty much similar. When a relatively dry air having a dry bulb temperature T1 passes through a long channel containing water part if the water will evaporate and mix with the air increasing the moisture to 100% relative humidity at this point you will have a temperature T2 called the adiabatic saturation temperature. i.e. because the process is adiabatic the heat used to evaporate the water comes only from the latent heat of water and air them selves and the air will be saturated at T2 hence the name given to T2. the other way of knowing this temperature T2 is by measuring it with what we call a wet bulb thermometer where the bulb of a thermometer is covered with a wet "sock". the water from the wet sock will evaporate when air passes over it and there will be a loss in temperature which will be read by the thermometer giving a wet bulb temperature aka adiabatic saturation temperature..

Answer 4

Saturation temperature would be at 100% humidity, wet bulb would give you the humidity as it actually is.