CMAP101 Word Exam 2023 22121401 AK Pillay

Heat Exchanger Practical USER 239 1page

1. Background

Cooling water is used to cool hot water which is at a temperature of 90 °C and at a flow rate of 200 ( Lh ).
two heat exchangers, shell-and-tube and plate-and-frame, are available for this duty. The cooling water is
required to cool the hot water to the lowest possible temperature and the cooling water is available at 150

()
L
h
to 1000 ()
L
h
.

Determine:
i. The most suitable heat exchnager between the two heat exchangers, and
ii. The optimum cooling water flow rate used.

2. Objectives
Determine:
a. The effect of thre cold-fluid flow rate on the overall heat transfer coefficient, U˳, for the shell-and-tube
heat exchanger and the plate-and-frame heat exchanger.
The heat tranferred from the hot fluid to the cold fluid in a heat exchanger is given by:

Q = U˳ A ∆ TLM eq. 1

∆ T 2−∆ T 1
Where: ∆ T LM ¿
ln (
∆T 2
∆T 1 ) eq. 2

AS&T = 𝛑 D˳ L N eq. 3

AP&F = A plate × effective no. of plates eq. 4