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The evaporator economy is dependent on the ________(a) Heat transfer rate(b) Mass transfer rate(c) Energy balance considerations(d) Mass balance considerationsThis question was posed to me in examination.My query is from Solving Unsteady topic in section Unsteady – State Material and Energy Balances of Bioprocess Engineering

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Right choice is (a) Heat transfer rate

Best EXPLANATION: There are three main measures of EVAPORATOR performance:

Capacity (kg vaporized/time), Economy (kg vaporized/ kg steam input), Steam consumption (kg/hr).

The performance of a evaporator is EVALUATED by the capacity and the economy.

The rate of heat transfer q through the heating surface of an evaporator, by the DEFINITION of overall heat transfer coefficient, is product of three factors

i) The area of heat transfer surface A

ii) The overall heat transfer coefficient U

iii) The overall temperature dropΔT

Q = U * A * ΔT.



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