CA OF HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER
Q1. A furnace wall is made up of tree layers, one is fire brick, one is insulating layer
and one is red brick. The inner and outer surfaces temparature are at 870°C and 40°C
respective conductive heat transfer coefficients of the layers are 1.153, 0.14 and
0.872W/m°C and the thicknesses are 22cm, 7.5cm and 11cm. Find the rate of heat loss
per square meter and the interface temperature.
Q2. The door of the cool storage plant is made from two 6mm thick glass sheets
separared by a uniform air of 2mm. The temperature of the air inside the room is --
20°C and the ambiant air temperature is 30°C. Assuming the heat transfer
coefficient between glass and air to be 23.26W/m2°K, determine then the heat
leaking into the room per unit area of the door. Neglect convection effects in the air
gap. kglass=0.75W/m°K kair=0.75W/m°k
Q3. A steel tube of 50 mm ID and 80mm OD is covered by 30mm thick of asbestos.
The thermal conductivity of a steel, asbestos are 45 W/m°K, 0.2W/m°k. The tube
receives heat from hot gases at 400°C with heat transfer coefficient of 300W/m2°C.
The outer surface is exposed to air at 30°C with heat transfer coefficient of
15W/m2°K. determine
1. Heat loss per m lengyh
2. Interface temperature and surface temperature
Q4. A steel tube of 5cm ID, 7.6cm OD and k=15W/m.°K. A hot gas at 330°C and
h=400W/m2°K flows inside the tube. The outer surface of the insulation is exposed
to colid air at 30°C with h=60W/m2°K. Assuming a tube lenght of 10m, find the heat
loss from the tube to the air. Also find across which layer the laegest temperature
drop occurs.
Given
Q5. A radiator in a domestic heating system operates at a surface temperature of
55°C. Determine the rate at which it emits radiant heat per unit area if it behaves as
a black body.
Q6. Calculate the heat transfer coefficient for water flowing through a 2 cm diameter
tube with a velocity of 2.5 m/s. The average temperature of the water is 50°C and
surface temperature of the tube is slightly below this temperature.
Assume the flow is turbulent. The properties at 50°C are given below.
Cp = 4180 J/kgK, K = 0.643 W/mK, 𝝆 =998kg/m3 , 𝝁=544x10-16 kg/m.s
Q7. Estimate the heat transfer from a 40 W incandescent bulb at 125°C to 25°C in
quiescent air. Approximate the bulb as a 50 mm diameter sphere. What percent of
the power is lost by free convection?The appropriate correlation for the convection
for the convection coefficient is Nu = 0.60 (Gr Pr)0.25 Where the different parameters
are evaluated at the mean film temperature, and the characteristic length is the
diameter of the sphere.
Q8. In a food processing plant, a brine solution is heated from -10°C to – 5.0°C in a
double pipe parallel flow heat exchanger by water entering at 35°C and leaving at
20.5°C at the rate of 9 kg/min. Determine the heat exchanger area for an overall heat
transfer coefficient of 860 W/m2 K. For water Cp = 4.186 103 j/kgK.
Q9. A tubular heat exchanger is to be designed for cooling oil from a temperature
of 80°C to 30°C by a large of stagnant water which may be assumed to remain constant at a
temperature of 20°C. The heat transfer surface consists of 30 m long straight tube of 20 mm
inside diameter. The oil (specific heat= 2.5 kj/kgk and specific gravity=0.8) flows through
the cylindrical tube with an average velocity of 50 cm/s Calculate the overall heat transfer
coefficient for the oil cooler .
Q10. Exhaust gases (Cp=1.12 kJ/kg-deg) flowing through a tubular heat exchanger at
the rate of 1200 kg/hr are cooled from 300°C to 20°C. The cooling is affected by water
(cp=4.18 kJ/kg-deg) that enters the system at 10°C at the rate of 1500 kg/hr. If the overall heat
transfer coefficient is 500 kJ/m2-hr-deg, what heat exchanger area is required to handle the
load for
(a) parallel flow and
(b) counter flow arrangement?
Q11. A counter-flow concentric tube heat exchanger is used to cool the lubricating
oil of a large industrial gas turbine engine. The oil flows through the tube at 0.16 kg/s
(cp=2.18 kJ/kgK), and the coolant water flows in the annulus in the opposite direction at a
rate of 0.15 kg/s (cp=4.18 kJ/kgK).The oil enters the coolant at 425 K and leaves at 345 K
while the coolant enters at 285 K. How long must the tube be made to perform this duty if
the heat transfer coefficient from oil to tube surface is 2250 W/m2 K and from tube surface
to water is 5650 W/m2 K? The tube has a mean diameter of 12 mm and its wall presents
negligible to heat transfer.
