In regards to its treatment of heat exchanger design:
(1)There is no way that the temperature change affected is inverse to tube length. (2)The temperature change affected can easily be greater than the temperature gradient if: (i)it is truely counter-current as in single-pass on both tube and shell side, and(ii) the heat flows, Cp*m, are matched so that there is not a pinch.
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