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The length is acceptable. The final system, therefore, involves two pas ses of 9 tubes with a length of 1.

12 m. Example 8-3 A given heat exchanger can be designed to have a U value of 270 W/m2 "C with a variety of different configurations (double pipe parall el; ouble pipe counterflow; cross-flow with both fluids unmixed and cross-flow with ne fluid mixed). Find the heat transfer surfaces for each case if equal f low rates f water (1.26 kg/sec) are used and one fluid is cooled from 94C to 72C while he other fluid is initially at 38C. The final temperature of the 38C fluid can be found from the First Law of hermodynamics: Wc(C,)c(Tfinal - 38)"C = WH(C~)H(~~ - 72)"C But, Wc = WH; also the C,'s are essentially the same. Hence, Tfinal for the old fluid should be about 60C. Using the value to determine the C, and then alculating the Tfinal, we get (22C) (4196 J/kg "C) (4176 Jkg "C) Tfinal = 38C + Tfinal = 60.1 "C Next, we calculate (AT)l, for the system (94 - 38)"C - (72 - 60.1)"C ln[(94 - 38)/(72 - 60.1)] (AT)1m = AC, = 28.5"C Then heat transferred is given by q' = (1.26 kg/sec)(4196 Jkg "C)(22"C) q1 = 116.3 kW Now consider each case in order.

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