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Consider a coupled shell-in-tube heat exchange deviceconsisting of two identical heat exchangers A and B.Air flows on the shell side of heat exchanger A. entering at
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(b) The plant engineer wishes to line-tune the heatexchanger performance by installing a variable-speed pump to allow adjustment of the water flowrate. Plot the outlet air and outlet ammonia temperatures versus the water flow rate over the range
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