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Consider a double-pipe counter-flow heat exchanger. In order to enhance its heat transfer, the length of the heat exchanger is doubled. Will the effectiveness of the exchanger double?

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effectiveness of the heat exchanger will not be double when the length of the heat exchanger is doubled.

Because effectiveness depends on NTU and not necessarily the length of the heat exchanger

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