Why LMTD is calculated in Heat -Exchanger problems..Why dont
we take average temperature??

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Why LMTD is calculated in Heat -Exchanger problems..Why dont we take average temperature??..

Answer / bharat

temperature inside heat-exchanger changes exponentially so
taking average would give erroneous results. and LMTD is
calculated by considering a small elemental area of heat
exchanger so it gives more accurate temperature difference.

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Why LMTD is calculated in Heat -Exchanger problems..Why dont we take average temperature??..

Answer / awkash

Because temperature change in heat exchanger is not linear
in nature so we can not take airthmatic mean here,
physically you can think in the manner like if we inlet
temp. of a pipe is 80 and outlet temp. is 40 then u cannot
say that temp in middle will be 60.
thats why for accurte measurement we take lmtd.

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Why LMTD is calculated in Heat -Exchanger problems..Why dont we take average temperature??..

Answer / abina

in heatexchanger temperature changes from point to point along the length so we are calculating Lmtd. ..Bt avg temperature dosnt gv correct value

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Why LMTD is calculated in Heat -Exchanger problems..Why dont we take average temperature??..

Answer / anil

LMTD value it gives the correct average temperature without any errors compare to average temperature

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