Question 348Motor Plants - Assistant Engineer

The correct answer is A) The feedwater flowing through the inside of the tubes is being heated by the jacket water on the outside of the tubes. This is the correct answer because the device labeled "23" in the illustration is likely a heat exchanger, where the jacket water from the engine is used to heat the feedwater before it enters the boiler. The heat from the jacket water passing on the outside of the tubes is transferred to the feedwater flowing through the inside of the tubes, increasing the temperature of the feedwater before it enters the boiler. The other answer choices are incorrect because B) describes the opposite heat transfer, C) refers to an azeotropic process which is not relevant here, and D) mentions subliminal heat transfer, which is not a real physical phenomenon.