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GATE ME 2024
Numerical
+2
-1.33

A condenser is used as a heat exchanger in a large steam power plant in which steam is condensed to liquid water. The condenser is a shell and tube heat exchanger which consists of 1 shell and 20,000 tubes. Water flows through each of the tubes at a rate of 1 kg/s with an inlet temperature of 30 °C. The steam in the condenser shell condenses at the rate of 430 kg/s at a temperature of 50 °C. If the heat of vaporization is 2.326 MJ/kg and specific heat of water is 4 kJ/(kg.K), the effectiveness of the heat exchanger is _______ (rounded off to 3 decimal places).

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GATE ME 2022 Set 2
Numerical
+2
-0
Saturated vapor at 200 °C condenses to saturated liquid at the rate of 150 kg/s on the shell side of a heat exchanger (enthalpy of condensation hfg = 2400 kJ/kg). A fluid with Cp = 4 kJ-kg-1K-1. enters at 100 °C on the tube side. If the effectiveness of the heat exchanger is 0.9, then the mass flow rate of the fluid in the tube side is __________ kg/s (in integer). 
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GATE ME 2022 Set 1
Numerical
+2
-0

During open-heart surgery, a patient’s blood is cooled down to 25 °C from 37 °C using a concentric tube counter-flow heat exchanger. Water enters the heat exchanger at 4 °C and leaves at 18 °C. Blood flow rate during the surgery is 5 L/minute.

Use the following fluid properties :

$$ \begin{array}{|c|c|c|} \hline \text { Fluid } & \text { Density }\left(\mathrm{kg} / \mathrm{m}^3\right) & \text { Specific heat }(\mathrm{J} / \mathrm{kg}-\mathrm{K}) \\ \hline \text { Blood } & 1050 & 3740 \\ \hline \text { Water } & 1000 & 4200 \\ \hline \end{array} $$

Effectiveness of the heat exchanger is _________ (round off to 2 decimal places).

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GATE ME 2017 Set 2
MCQ (Single Correct Answer)
+2
-0.6
In a counter-flow heat exchanger, water is heated at the rate of $$1.5kg/s$$ from $$\,40{}^ \circ C\,$$ to $$\,80{}^ \circ C\,$$ by an oil entering at $$\,120{}^ \circ C\,$$ and leaving at $$\,60{}^ \circ C\,$$. The specific heats of water and oil are $$4.2kJ/kgK$$ and $$2kJ/kgK,$$ respectively. The overall heat transfer coefficient is $$400\,W/{m^2}K.$$ The required heat transfer surface are (in $${m^2}$$) is
A
$$0.104$$
B
$$0.022$$
C
$$10.4$$
D
$$21.84$$
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