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heat exchanger effectiveness
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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.
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J.P.Holman's Heat Transfer (McGraw-Hill) has a whole section on the Effectiveness-NTU method for heat-exchanger analysis.
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