A heat exchanger is used to heat 36 kg/hr of air originally at standard conditions (25 °C and 1 atm) to 125 °C using steam originally at 10 bar and 300 °C. Assume both streams maintain constant pressure and air to be an ideal gas with constant cp = 1.005 kJ/kg·K. No heat is lost to the surroundings. Calculate: The minimum flow rate of the steam in kg/hr?
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.
A heat exchanger is used to heat 36 kg/hr of air originally at standard conditions (25 °C and 1 atm) to 125 °C using steam originally at 10 bar and 300 °C. Assume both streams maintain constant pressure and air to be an ideal gas with constant cp = 1.005 kJ/kg·K. No heat is lost
to the surroundings. Calculate:
The minimum flow rate of the steam in kg/hr?
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