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The document contains three questions about heat transfer through walls and tubes. The first question asks for the heat gain per unit area of a refrigerator wall constructed of fiberglass insulation and steel panels given the temperatures and properties provided. The second question asks for the heat flux and temperature drop across two stainless steel plates under vacuum given their thickness and an overall temperature drop. The third question asks for the heat gain per unit length of a stainless steel tube transporting a pharmaceutical between two temperatures, with and without added insulation, given the tube dimensions and convection coefficients.

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Hw2 Solution

The document contains three questions about heat transfer through walls and tubes. The first question asks for the heat gain per unit area of a refrigerator wall constructed of fiberglass insulation and steel panels given the temperatures and properties provided. The second question asks for the heat flux and temperature drop across two stainless steel plates under vacuum given their thickness and an overall temperature drop. The third question asks for the heat gain per unit length of a stainless steel tube transporting a pharmaceutical between two temperatures, with and without added insulation, given the tube dimensions and convection coefficients.

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The walls of a refrigerator are typically constructed by sandwiching a layer of insulation between
sheet metal panels. Consider a wall made from fiberglass insulation of thermal conductivity ki = 0.046 W/m K and thickness Li = 50 mm and steel panels, each of thermal conductivity kp = 60 W/m K and thickness Lp = 3 mm. If the wall separates refrigerated air at T,i = 4C from ambient air at T,o = 25C, what is the heat gain per unit surface area? Coefficients associated with natural convection at the inner and outer surfaces may be approximately as hi = ho = 5 W/m2 K.

2. Two stainless steel plates 10 mm thick are subjected to a contact pressure of 1 bar under vacuum
conditions for which there is an overall temperature drop of 100C across the plates. What is the heat flux through the plates? What is the temperature drop across the contact plane? Use Table 31 and Table A-1 for thermal properties.

3. A stainless steel (AISI 304) tube used to transport a chilled pharmaceutical has an inner diameter
of 36 mm and a wall thickness of 2 mm. The pharmaceutical and ambient air are at temperatures of 6C and 23C, respectively, while the corresponding inner and outer convection coefficients are 400 W/m2 K and 6 W/m2 K, respectively. (1) What is the heat gain per unit tube length? (2) What is the heat gain per unit length if a 10-mm-thick layer of calcium silicate insulation (k = 0.050 W/m K) is applied to the tube?

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