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 81.0 oC and the outlet temperature is 74.8 oC. The mass flow rate of hot water is 2.61 kg/s. While for fluid B (liquid X), the temperature at inlet of the heat exchanger is 14.5 oC and the outlet temperature is 69.9 oC and the mass flow rate of milk is 7.17 kg/s. For the analysis, the facility data shows that both fluids have nearly constant specific heat capacities, specific heat capacity of Fluid A (Water) is 4.186 kJ/kg.K, and specific heat capacity of Fluid B (liquid X) is 3.873 kJ/kg.K. 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 (kW/K) in this heat exchange process. (Answer must be in 2 decimals)

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