Waste heat from the exhaust gas of an industrial furnace

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Waste heat from the exhaust gas of an industrial furnace is recovered by mounting a bank of unfinned tubes in the furnace stack. Pressurized water at a flow rate of 0.025 kg/s makes a single pass through each of the tubes, while the exhaust gas, which has an upstream velocity of 5.0 m/s, moves in cross flow over the tubes at 2.25 kg/s. The tube bank consists of a square array of 100 thin-walled tubes (10 10), each 25 mm in diameter and 4 m long. The tubes are aligned with a transverse pitch of 50 mm. The inlet temperatures of the water and the exhaust gas are 300 and 800 K, respectively. The water flow is fully developed, and the gas properties may be assumed to be those of atmospheric air. (a) What is the overall heat transfer coefficient? (b) What are the fluid outlet temperatures? (c) Operation of the heat exchanger may vary according to the demand for hot water. For the prescribed heat exchanger design and inlet conditions, compute and plot the rate of heat recovery and the fluid outlet temperatures as a function of water flow rate per tube for 0.02 m . c,1 0.20 kg/s