Find the duty of this heat exhanger when new: Q6: Say we have a heat exchanger made to heat 150 liters/minute from 20 degrees celsius to 80 degrees celsius. Each section of the heat exchanger, which is a circular pipe, is 10m long. The outer diameter is 2in, and the thickness of the pipe is 1 / 8 inch. As the heat exchanger is operated, lime is built up known as fouling. The heat exahnger uses N number of pipes, where water passes through the pipe and hot gas is on the outside. k(foul) = 0.5 W/mK, K(foul) increases at 1mm/year, however there is no lime build up initially because the heat exchanger is new. Steel thermal conductivity is k(steel) = 50 W/mK while the convection coefficient between the water in the tube and the inside wall of the pipe is 1000 W/m^2K, and the convection coefficient of the outside pipe and hot gas is 100 W/m^2K.

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Q6: Say we have a heat exchanger made to heat 150 liters/minute from 20 degrees celsius to 80 degrees celsius. Each section of the heat exchanger, which is a circular pipe, is 10m long. The outer diameter is 2in, and the thickness of the pipe is 1 / 8 inch. As the heat exchanger is operated, lime is built up known as fouling. The heat exahnger uses N number of pipes, where water passes through the pipe and hot gas is on the outside.

k(foul) = 0.5 W/mK, K(foul) increases at 1mm/year, however there is no lime build up initially because the heat exchanger is new.

Steel thermal conductivity is k(steel) = 50 W/mK while the convection coefficient between the water in the tube and the inside wall of the pipe is 1000 W/m^2K, and the convection coefficient of the outside pipe and hot gas is 100 W/m^2K.

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