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6. Air at 20 oC blows over a 50 x 60 cm hot plate at 220 oC. The convective heat transfer co-
efficient is 25W/m2 K. What is the heat loss from the plate?

7. A composite wall of a furnace has 3 layers of equal thickness having thermal conductivities in
the ratio of 1:2:4. What will be temperature drop ratio across three respective layers? What is
heat lost per hour across a wall 4m high, 10m long and 115mm thick, if the inside wall
temperature is 30 oC and outside ambient temperature is 10 oC? Conductivity of brick wall is
1.15W/mK, heat transfer coefficient for inside wall is 2.5 W/m2K and that for outside wall is 4
W/m2 K.
8. A thin metal plate 0.1m by 0.1m is placed in a large evacuated container whose walls are kept
at 300K. The bottom surface of the plate is insulated, and the top surface is maintained at 500K
as a result of electric heating. If the emissivity of the plate is 0.8, what is the rate of heat
exchange between the plate and the walls of the container take σ =5.67X10-8W/m2 K4
9. A small hot surface at 430 K with an emissivity of 0.8 dissipates heat by radiation into the
surrounding at a temperature of 400 K. If this radiation is characterized by radiation heat
transfer coefficient hr calculate its value.
10. A steam pipe of outer radius 4cm is covered with a layer of asbestos insulation of 1cm
thickness, thermal conductivity 0.15 W/moC which is in turn covered by 3cm thick glass fibre
insulation (k= 0.05 W/moC). The surface of steam pipe is at 330 oC and outer surface of fibre
glass is at 30 oC. Determine interface temperature and the heat loss per meter length of pipe.
11. A plate having 10cm2 area each side is hung in middle of a room of 100m2 total surface area.
The plate temperature and emissivity are respectively 800K and 0.6, while temperature and
emissivity values for the surfaces of room are 300K and 0.3 respectively. What is total heat loss
from two surfaces of plate?
12 A moving vehicle has air flow stream with hand at 30°C, determine convection heat flux for
(a) a vehicle speed of 35 km/h in air at - 5°C with h= 40 W/m2 K and (b) a velocity of 0.2 m/s in a
water stream at 10oCwith a convection coefficient of 900 W/m2K. Which condition would feel
colder? Compare results with a heat loss of 30 W/m2 under normal room conditions.
13. A cartridge electrical heater is shaped as a cylinder of length L = 200 mm and outer
diameter D = 20 mm. Under normal operating conditions heater dissipates 2 kW while
submerged in a water flow at 20°C and provides a convection heat transfer coefficient of h =
5000 W/m2 K. Neglect heat transfer from ends of heater, determine its surface temperature
Ts ,If water flow is terminated while heater continues to operate, heater surface is exposed to air
that is also at 20°C but has h = 50 W/m2K. What is the corresponding surface temperature?
What are the consequences of such an event?
14. An experiment to determine the convection coefficient associated with airflow over the
surface of a thick stainless-steel casting involves insertion of thermocouples in the casting at
distances of 10 and 20 mm from the surface along a hypothetical line normal to the surface. The
steel has a thermal conductivity of 15 W/mK. If the thermocouples measure temperatures of 50
and 40°C in the steel when the air temperature is 100°C. What is the convection heat transfer
coefficient? The heater surface is exposed to air that is also at 20°C but for which h = 50
W/m2K. What is the corresponding surface temperature? What are the consequences of such an
event?
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4 The 5-mm-thick bottom of a 200-mm-dia pan made from aluminum (k = 240 W/m K) or
copper (k = 390 W/m K). When used to boil water, the surface of the bottom exposed to
the water is nominally at 110°C. If heat is transferred from the stove to the pan at a rate
of 600 W, what is the temperature of surface in contact with stove for each of the two
materials?
5 What thickness required of a masonry wall having thermal conductivity 0.75 W/m K has
heat rate to be 80% of heat rate through a composite structural wall having a thermal
conductivity of 0.25 W/m K and a thickness of 100 mm? Both walls are at similar surface
temperature difference.
6 A concrete wall of thickness L1=15 cm has a thermal conductivity of k1=0.76 W/moC.
Inside surface is exposed to air at Ti=20oC and outside surface to air at To = 20oC.The heat
coefficient for outside and inside surfaces are h1=10 and h2=40 W/ m2C. Determine heat
loss per m2 of the wall surface.
7 A hollow steel sphere of inside radius 10cm and outside radius of 20 cm. The thermal
conductivity of steel is 10 W/mK, when the inside surface is maintained at uniform
temperature of 230oC and the outside surface dissipates heat by convection with heat
transfer coefficient of 20 W/m2 K in to the ambience at 30oC. Evaluate the insulation
thickness with k= 0.5 W/mK required to reduce the heat loss by 50 % of the uninsulated
sphere.What is the overall heat transfer coefficient?
8 A copper tube of 20mm OD, 1mm thick and 20m long (k=400 W/mK) is carries saturated
steam at 150oC (h=150 W/m2 oC). The tube is exposed to an ambient temperature of 27oC
with heat transfer coefficient of 5 W/m2oC. Glass wool is used for insulation (k=0.075
W/mK) with a thickness 5mm higher than critical thickness of insulation, calculate rate
of heat lost by steam and rate of condensation in kg/hr (hfg =2230 kJ/kg).
9 A wire of 2mm diameter is heated electrically while it dissipates heat to the ambient by
convection with heat transfer coefficient 125 W/m2 oC. If the wire is covered with of
0.2mm thick insulation of thermal conductivity 0.175 W/moC will heat loss from wire
increase or decrease?
10 An electrically heated sphere 6cm diameter is exposed to 25 oC ambience with heat
transfer coefficient of 20 W/m2 oC. The surface of the sphere is maintained at 125 oC.
Calculate the rate of heat loss from the sphere if it is insulated with an insulation (k=1.0
W/moC) corresponding to its critical thickness and when the sphere is bare
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5. A small copper ball of 5 mm diameter at 500K is dropped into an oil bath whose temperature
is 300K, the thermal conductivity of copper is 400 W/mK, its density is 9000 kg/m3 and its specific
heat is 385 J/kg K. If the heat transfer coefficient is 250 W/m2oC and lumped system analysis is
assumed what is the rate of fall of the temperature of the ball at the beginning of cooling in K/s?
6. A spherical thermocouple junction of diameter 0.706 mm is used for measurement of
temperature of gas stream. The convective heat transfer coefficient on the bead surface is 400
W/m2oC with thermo-physical properties being k=20 W/moC, Cp =400 J/kg K and ρ=8500 kg/m3.
If the thermocouple initially at 30oC is placed in a hot stream of 300oC, what is the time taken by
the bead to reach 298oC
7. A solid copper sphere of 10cm diameter [ρ=8954kg/m3 Cp=383J/kg C, k=386W/moC] initially
at a uniform temperature of 250oC is suddenly immersed in a well stirred fluid which is
maintained at a 50oC uniform temperature .The fluid and sphere has h=200W/m2oC. check if
lumped system analysis is applicable to determine temperature of block at t=5,10,15 min after
immersion
8. A fused quartz sphere has a thermal diffusivity of 9.5 x 10-7m2/s, a diameter of 2.5 cm and a
k=1.52 W/mK. The sphere initially at 25 oC is suddenly put into 200oC convective space with h=
110W/m2 oC. Find temperatures at centre and at a radius of 6.4 mm after 4 min.
9. A 12mm diameter mild steel sphere (K=42.5W/mK) is placed in an air stream at 27˚C with
h=114 W/m2˚C. Find time taken to cool the sphere from 540 ˚C to 95˚C and Instantaneous heat
transfer rate two minutes after start of cooling. Use: density=7850 kg/m3 Sp. heat=475J/kgK
Thermal diffusivity=0.043m2/hr.