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A feedwater heater that supplies a boiler consists of a shell-and-tube heat exchanger with one shell pass and two tube passes. One hundred thin-walled tubes each have a diameter of 20 mm and a length (per pass) of 2 m. Under normal operating conditions water enters the tubes at 10 kg/s and 290 K and is heated by condensing saturated steam at 1 atm on the outer surface of the tubes. The convection coefficient of the saturated steam is . (a) Determine the water outlet temperature. (b) With all other conditions remaining the same, but accounting for changes in the overall heat transfer coefficient, plot the water outlet temperature as a function of the water flow rate for . (c) On the plot of part (b), generate two additional curves for the water outlet temperature as a function of flow rate for fouling factors of and .
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VerifiedGiven Inlet temperature of hot fluid(steam), ; Exit temperature of hot fluid(steam), ; Mass flow rate of hot fluid(steam),
Inlet temperature of cold fluid(water), ; Exit temperature of cold fluid(water) is ; Mass flow rate of cold fluid(water),
Number of tubes, ; Diameter, ; Length per pass, m; Convectiive heat transfer coefficient,
From Thermophysical properties table for saturated water(at \ \ atm and assuming mean temperature of K)
; ; ; ;
In order to determine the type of flow, finding Reynolds number. Reynolds number for a circular tube in case of internal flow is given by:
where is the viscosity of the liquid flowing and is mass flow rate per tube.
If $Re_D \geq 2300 $ in case of internal flow through a circular tube, then flow is Turbulent.
Hence, given flow is Turbulent.
For fully developed (hydrodynamically and thermally) turbulent flow in a smooth circular tube, the Nusselt number may be obtained from the Dittus-Boelter equation:
where for heating and for cooling. Since, it is a case of heating. Hence value of is
Therefore,
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