Hot water flowing at 0.015 m3/min enters the tube side of a counter current shell & tube heat exchanger at 80 C and leaves at 50 C. Cold oil flowing thru the shell at 0.05 m3/min, with density 800 kg/m3 and specific heat of 2.0 kJ/kg K, enters at 20 C. Consider water specific heat at 4.2 kJ/kg K and density of 988 kg/m3 at above condition, what is the approximate Log Mean Temperature Difference (LMTD)? Show the temperature profile completely labeled.
Heat Exchangers
Heat exchangers are the types of equipment that are primarily employed to transfer the thermal energy from one fluid to another, provided that one of the fluids should be at a higher thermal energy content than the other fluid.
Heat Exchanger
The heat exchanger is a combination of two words ''Heat'' and ''Exchanger''. It is a mechanical device that is used to exchange heat energy between two fluids.
Hot water flowing at 0.015 m3/min enters the tube side of a counter current shell & tube heat exchanger at 80 C and leaves at 50 C. Cold oil flowing thru the shell at 0.05 m3/min, with density 800 kg/m3 and specific heat of 2.0 kJ/kg K, enters at 20 C. Consider water specific heat at 4.2 kJ/kg K and density of 988 kg/m3 at above condition, what is the approximate Log Mean Temperature Difference (LMTD)? Show the temperature profile completely labeled.
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