Heat-exchanger effectiveness is $\varepsilon=Q_{\mathrm{actual}}/Q_{\max}$,a ratio of heat-transfer rates with identical units. Humid heat has specific-heat units, humid volume has volume-per-mass units, and the overall coefficient has units W/(m²·K). Thus only **effectiveness, A**,is dimensionless.
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