THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING

(An Autonomous Institute Under VTU)

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Manandavadi Road, Mysore-570008, Karnataka, India.
Phone: 0821-4004930, Fax: 0821-2485802, Email: tns_nie@yahoo.com
Estd: 1946
Dr. T.N.Shridhar Date: 20-04-2021
Professor
SUB: HEAT TRANSFER [ME0424] SEM : VI ‘A’ & ‘B’ Sec.

TUTORIAL SHEET –8

Heat Exchangers

1) A heat exchanger is to be designed to cool air from 5000C to 3500C by an equal flow rate of
air entering at 900C. The heat transfer coefficient on the hot side is 60 W/m2-K and the cold side
30 W/m2-K. Calculate the heat transfer area required for i) parallel flow ii) counter flow. Take
flow rate of air to be 5 kg/s and Cp is 1005 J/kg-0K.

2) A simple heat exchange of two concentric flow passages is used for heating 1117 kg/hour of
oil (specific heat 2.095kJ/kg-0K) from a temperature of 270C to 490C. The oil is flowing through
the inner pipe (outer diameter =2.86cm, inner diameter =2.54cm) made of copper and the surface
heat transfer coefficient on the oil side is 635 W/m2-K. The oil is heated by hot water supplied at
the rate of 394kg/h and at an inlet temperature of 930C. The water side heat transfer coefficient is
1270 W/m2-K. Take thermal conductivity of copper tube 350 W/m2-K and the fouling factors on
the oil and water sides to be 0.0001 and 0.0004 m2-K/W. What is the length of the heat
exchanger for a)parallel and b)counter flows ?

3) A shell and tube heat exchanger is to be designed for heating water from 250C to 500C with
the help of steam condensing at atmospheric pressure. The water flows through the tubes (2.5cm
inner diameter, 2.9cm outer diameter and 4m long) and the steam condenses on the outside.
Calculate the number of tubes required if the water flow rate is 500kg/m and the individual
coefficient of heat transfer on the steam and water side are 5000 W/m2-K and 750 W/m2-K.
Neglect all other resistances.

4) A heat exchanger is to be designed to transfer heat from hot water to certain cold liquid. The
given conditions are i)hot water flow rate =5 kg/m, cold liquid flow rate =10 kg/m, hot water
inlet temperature =850C, cold liquid inlet temperature =270C specific heat of cold liquid
=2930J/kg-0K.
It is required that exit temperature of the cold liquid be 550C. The engineering assigned to do the
work decides to design a parallel flow configuration, but keeps having difficulty in during the
calculations, can you explain why?

5) Find the surface area required in counter flow steam super heater in which the steam enters at
1800C in a dry, saturated state and leaves at 2500C with a increase of enthalpy of 159kJ/kg. The
hot combustion gases (Cp=1.05kJ/kg-K) enter the super heater at 5100C. The steam flow rate is
1000kg/h, the hot gas flow rate is 2000kg /h and the overall heat transfer coefficient is 26W/m2-
K.
6) 500kg/h of water is to be heated from 300C to 500C by using liquid toluene which is cooled
from 700C to 400C. For this purpose, a concentric tube heat exchanger is used with toluene
flowing through the inner tube and water in the annulus. Find the length of the heat exchanger if
the inner tube is 2.5cm inner diameter 2.9cm outer diameter and the outer tube is 5.1cm inner
diameter, 5.5cm outer diameter. The tubes are made of steel. Assume that NUD=0.023 ReD0.8 Prn
is valid on both sides. Fouling is negligible, equivalent diameter should be taken for annulus.
Properties of toluene: ρ=860kg/m3, Cp=1.842KJ/kg-K
μ=4.31x10-4kg/m-s, K=0.128W/m-k

7) Given Thi=600C, Tho=480C, Tci=350C and Tco=440C. Calculate the mean temperature
difference for i) parallel flow ii) counter flow iii) single pass cross flow(both fluids unmixed) iv)
single pass cross flow(hot side fluid mixed, cold side fluid unmixed) and v) single pass cross
flow(hot side fluid unmixed, cold side fluid mixed) Also calculate the effectiveness.

Heat Exchanger Effectiveness and the NTU

1) A refrigerator is designed to cool 250kg/h of hot liquid (Cp=3.35kJ/kg-0K) at 1200C using a

parallel flow arrangement. 1000kg/h of cooling water is available for cooling purpose at a
temperature of 100C. If v =1000 W/m2-K and the surface area is 0.25m2. Calculate the outlet
temperature of both the fluids and also ɛ of the heat exchanger.

2) A chemical of Cp=3.6 kJ/kg-0K flowing at a rate of 30000kg/h enters a PFHE at 1000C,

cooling water at the rate of 50000kg/h enters the heat exchanger at 100C. The effective heat
transfer area is 10m2 and U=1000. Obtain the outlet temperatures of both fluids. For the same
temperatures of both the fluids, what area would be required for a counter flow arrangement.

3) The following data are given for a heat exchanger mh=4kg/m, mc=8kg/m, CPh=4.2kJ/ kg-0K
Cpc=2.52 kJ/ kg-0K. Thi=1000C, Tci=200C. What is the maximum possible ɛ if the arrangement is
a)parallel flow b)counter flow?

4) Given the following data for a counter flow heat exchanger mh=3kg/m, mc=0.35kg/m,
CPh=1.05kJ/ kg-0K Cpc=4.2 kJ/ kg-0K. Thi=5000C, Tci=850C, U=450 W/m2-K and A=1m2.
Calculate Tho and Tci.

5) A hot fluid at 2000C enters a heat exchanger at a mass flow rate of 104kg/h. Its specific heat is
2000J/kg-0K. It is to be cooled by another fluid entering at 250C with a mass flow rate of
2500kg/h and specific heat 400J/kg-0K. The overall heat transfer coefficient based on outside
area of 20m2 is 250W/m2-0K. Find the exit temperature of the hot fluid when the fluids are in
parallel flow.