heat exchanger effectiveness
heat exchanger effectiveness
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Is the the effectiveness of a heat exchanger is constant or affected by other factors?
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RE: heat exchanger effectiveness
It is not a constant, it is defined as the ratio of actual heat transfer to maximum possible heat transfer. As for the factors affecting it, the following threads may provide more details.
thread798-149369
thread391-33507
thread391-99241
thread391-100355
J.P.Holman's Heat Transfer (McGraw-Hill) has a whole section on the Effectiveness-NTU method for heat-exchanger analysis.