The shell fluid,ethylene glycol, enters at 120oC and leaves at 60oCwitha flow rate of 4000 kg/h. Water flows in the tubes, entering at 35oCand leaving at85oC. The overall heat-transfer coefficient for this arrangement is 900W/m2·oC.The exchanger is a shell tube with two shell passes and two tube passes.Calculate the following: a) The water exit temperature if flow rate of glycol to the exchanger is reduced in half with the entrance temperatures of both fluids remaining the same and by how much is the heat-transfer rate reduced?; b) The percentage reduction of heat transfer if water-flow rate is reduced by 25percent,while the gas flowrate is maintained constant along with the fluid inlet temperatures. Assume that the overall heat-transfer coefficient remains the same; andc) The flow rate of water required andthe area of the heat exchanger;
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.
The shell fluid,ethylene glycol, enters at 120oC and leaves at 60oCwitha flow rate of 4000 kg/h. Water flows in the tubes, entering at 35oCand leaving at85oC. The overall heat-transfer coefficient for this arrangement is 900W/m2·oC.The exchanger is a shell tube with two shell passes and two tube passes.Calculate the following: a) The water exit temperature if flow rate of glycol to the exchanger is reduced in half with the entrance temperatures of both fluids remaining the same and by how much is the heat-transfer rate reduced?; b) The percentage reduction of heat transfer if water-flow rate is reduced by 25percent,while the gas flowrate is maintained constant along with the fluid inlet temperatures. Assume that the overall heat-transfer coefficient remains the same; andc) The flow rate of water required andthe area of the heat exchanger;
Step by step
Solved in 6 steps with 6 images
