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Fig. 8.7 Temperature-heat transfer diagram for preheater and evaporator.

boiler pressure; and state 1 is a saturated vapor, the same as the turbine inlet condition.
Thus, the two heat exchangers may be analyzed separately as follows:
Preheater: m _ wf ðh5 2 h4 Þ
_ b cb ðTb 2 Tc Þ 5 m ð8:9Þ

Evaporator: m _ wf ðh1 2 h5 Þ
_ b cb ðTa 2 Tb Þ 5 m ð8:10Þ

The brine inlet temperature Ta is always known. The pinch-point temperature differ-
ence is generally known from manufacturer’s specifications; this allows Tb to be found
from the known value for T5. While it is theoretically possible for the pinch point
to occur at the cold end of the preheater (for a very steep brine cooling line), this
practically never happens.
The evaporator heat transfer surface area between the two fluids, AE, can be determined
from the basic heat transfer relationship:

Q_ E 5 UAE LMTDE ð8:11Þ
where U is the overall heat transfer coefficient, LMTD is the log mean temperature
difference, which for the evaporator is found from

 ðTa 2 T1 Þ 2ðTb 2 T5 Þ
LMTDE 5   ð8:12Þ
Ta 2 T1
ln
Tb 2 T5

and the evaporation heat transfer rate is given by

Q_ E 5 m
_ b cb ðTa 2 Tb Þ 5 m
_ wf ðh1 2 h5 Þ ð8:13Þ