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GATE Heat Transfer: Heat exchangers: LMTD and NTU methods – Previous Year Questions

4 GATE previous year questions on Heat exchangers: LMTD and NTU methods (Heat Transfer, Mechanical Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2022 ME (ME1) Q65 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – During open-heart surgery, a patient's blood is cooled down to 25 °C from 37 °C using a concentric tube counter-flow heat exchanger. Water enters the…
  2. GATE 2023 ME Q35 (1 mark, Numerical answer) – Consider a counter-flow heat exchanger with the inlet temperatures of two fluids (1 and 2) being T 1,in = 300 K and T 2,in = 350 K. The heat capacity…
  3. GATE 2024 ME Q49 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – A condenser is used as a heat exchanger in a large steam power plant in which steam is condensed to liquid water. The condenser is a shell and tube…
  4. GATE 2026 ME Q55 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – Convective heat transfer coefficients for Fluid 1 and Fluid 2 in a heat exchanger, as shown in the figure below, are 50 W/(m2K) and 80 W/(m2K),…