Cold water at 20 degrees C and 5000 kg/hr is to be heated by hot water supplied at 80 degrees C and 10,000 kg/hr. You select from a manufacturer's catalog a shell-and-tube heat exchanger (one shell with two tube passes) having a UA value of 11,600 W/K. Determine the hot water outlet temperature.

59°C

Explanation:

Given that, Cc = McCp,c = 5000 /3600 × 4178 = 5803.2(W/K)

and Ch = MhCp,h = 10000 / 3600 × 4188 = 11634.3(W/K)

Therefore the minimum and maximum heat capacities are:

Cmin = Cc = 5803.2(W/K)

Cmax = Ch = 11634.3(W/K)

The capacity ratio is:

Cr = Cmin / Cmax = 0.499 = 0.5

The maximum possible heat transfer rate is:

Qmax = Cmin (Th,i - Tc,i) = 5803.2 (80 - 20) = 348192(W)

And the number of transfer units is: NTU = UA / Cmin = 11600 / 5803.2 = 1.99

Given that from the appropriate graph in the handouts we can read  = 0.7. So the actual heat transfer rate is: Qact = Qmax = 0.7 × 348192 = 243734.4(W)

Hence, the outlet hot temperature is: Th,o = Th,i - Qact / Ch = 59°C