Heat Exchangers

1) Oil at I00°C (Cp = 3.6kJ/kg K) flows at a rate of 30.000 kg/hr and enters a parallel flow heat
exchanger. Cooling water (Cp = 4.2 kJ/kg K) enters heat exchanger at 100C at the rate of 50,000
kg /hr. The heat transfer area is 10 m2 and U = 1000 W/m2K. Calculate outlet temperature of oil
and water.
2) 8000 kg/hr of air at 105°C is cooled by passing it through a counter flow heat exchanger. Find
the exit temperature of air and water, if water enters at 15°C and flows at a rate of 7500 kg/hr. The
heat exchanger has heat transfer area equal to 20 m2 and the overall heat transfer coefficient
corresponding to this area is 145 W/m2K. Take Cp of air = 1 kJ/kgK and that of water = 4.18
kJ/kgK.

3) A heat exchanger is used for cooling oil at 180°C using water available at 25°C. The mass flow
rates of oil and water are 2.5 kg/s and 1.2 kg/s respectively. If the heat exchanger has 16 m2 area
available for heat transfer, calculate the outlet temperatures of oil and water for, i) Parallel flow and
ii) Counter flow arrangement. Take Cp of oil = 1900 J/kg K, Cp of water = 4.184 J/kg K, U = 285
W/m2K.

4) Engine oil is to be cooled from 80°C to 50°C by using a single pass counter flow, concentric-
tube heat exchanger with cooling ·water available at 20°C. Water flows inside a tube with an
internal dia of 2.5 cm with a flow rate of 0.08 kg/s and oil flows through the annulus at a rate of
0.16 kg/s. The heat transfer coefficient for the water side and oil side are respectively 1000 W/m2K
and 80 W/m2K. The fouling factors are 0.00018 m2K/W and 0.00018 m2K/W, the tube wall
resistance is negligible. Calculate the tube length required. Take specific heat of water as 4180
J/kgK and for oil, 2090 J/kgK.

5) A tubular heat exchanger consists of 200 tubes each 20 mm outer diameter & 5 m length. Hot
fluid flows inside the tube and cold over it but in opposite direction to that of hot fluid. The overall
heat transfer coefficient based on outer diameter is 320 J/s m²K. Determine the outlet temperature
of both fluids and total heat transfer using the data given below. Thi =120ºC, mh =20kg/s, Cph =
2000J/kgK, Tci = 20ºC, mc =5 kg/s and Cpc =4000 J/kgK. Repeat the problem if the flow is parallel.

6) A cross flow heat exchanger, with both fluids unmixed, has an area of 8.4 m2, is used wheat air
(Cp = 1005 J/kgK) with water (Cp = 4180 J/kgK). Air enters at 15°C, at a rate of 2 kg/s, while water
enters at 90°C at a rate of 0.25 kg/s. The overall heat transfer coefficient is 250 W/m2K. Calculate
exit temperatures of both fluids and the rate of heat transfer, using effectiveness - NTU method.

7) Hot water at 70ºC is used to heat 3950 kg/hr of fuel oil from 10ºC to 20ºC. The water flows with
a velocity of 0.75 m/s through a copper pipe, 2.15 cm O.D & 1.85 cm I.D. The oil is pumped
through the annulus between the copper pipe and the steel pipe 3.35 cm O.D & 3 cm I.D. What
length of counter flow exchanger is required? Resistance of the copper pipe is 300 W/moC. For the
temperature range involved the following properties are applicable Hot water ρ= 985 kg/m3, for fuel
oil ρ= 8.55 kg/m³, γ water 4.18 x 10-7 m²/s, γ fuel oil - 0.743 x 10-5 m²/s Cp of water= 4.187
kJ/Kg°C Cp of fuel oil= 1.885 kJ/Kg0C, K of water=0.657 W/m°C and K of fuel oil=0.138 W/m°C

8) A heat exchanger has an effectiveness of 0.5 when the flow is counter and the thermal capacity
of one fluid is twice that of the other fluid. Calculate the effectiveness of the heat exchanger if the
direction of flow of one of the fluids is reversed with the same mass flow rate as before.