Question: You are a junior design engineer at a fruit juice processing facility. You ve been tasked with evaluating the performance of a plate heat exchanger
You are a junior design engineer at a fruit juice processing facility. Youve been tasked with evaluating the performance of a plate heat exchanger used for a process. This exchanger uses hot water Fluid A to heat liquid X Fluid B a critical step in ensuring product safety and quality. After discussing with your supervisor, you've gathered the operating conditions. For fluid A water the temperature at inlet of the heat exchanger is oC and the outlet temperature is oC The mass flow rate of hot water is kgs While for fluid B liquid X the temperature at inlet of the heat exchanger is oC and the outlet temperature is oC and the mass flow rate of milk is kgs For the analysis, the facility data shows that both fluids have nearly constant specific heat capacities, specific heat capacity of Fluid A Water is kJkgK and specific heat capacity of Fluid B liquid X is kJkgK Assume negligible pressure drop across both the fluid streams within the heat exchanger. Also assume that the heat exchanger is very well insulated. Your goal is to understand how efficiently energy is used in the pasteurization process. Now estimate the rate of entropy generation kWK in this heat exchange process. Answer must be in decimals
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