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Tutorial 01 Heat Transfer

This document discusses three examples of heat transfer calculations: 1) Calculating the heat loss through a concrete basement slab and the daily cost of that heat loss. 2) Calculating the rate of heat extracted from air flowing over thin-walled refrigeration tubes. 3) Calculating the heat loss from a steam pipe, both without and with insulation, and the payback period for installing the insulation.

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Tutorial 01 Heat Transfer

This document discusses three examples of heat transfer calculations: 1) Calculating the heat loss through a concrete basement slab and the daily cost of that heat loss. 2) Calculating the rate of heat extracted from air flowing over thin-walled refrigeration tubes. 3) Calculating the heat loss from a steam pipe, both without and with insulation, and the payback period for installing the insulation.

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Tutorial 1: Heat transfer

1. The concrete slab of a basement is 11 m long, 8 m wide, and 0.20 m thick. During
the winter, temperatures are nominally 17 °C and 10 °C at the top and bottom surfaces,
respectively. If the concrete has a thermal conductivity of 1.4 W m−1 K−1 , (a) what is the
rate of heat loss through the slab? If the basement is heated by a gas furnace operating at
an efficiency of 90 % and natural gas is priced at | 0.75 per MJ, (b) what is the daily cost
of the heat loss?

2. The evaporator section of a refrigeration unit consists of thin-walled, 10 mm diameter


tubes through which refrigerant passes at a temperature of 18 °C. Air is cooled as it
flows over the tubes, maintaining a surface convection coefficient of 100 W m−2 K−1 , and is
subsequently routed to the refrigerator compartment. For the foregoing conditions and an
air temperature of 3 °C, what is the rate at which heat is extracted from the air per unit
tube length?

3. A thin-walled steel pipe having diameter of 0.20 m, is used to transport saturated steam at
a pressure of 20 bar in a room for which the air temperature is 25 °C and the convection
heat transfer coefficient at the outer surface of the pipe is 20 W m−2 K−1 .

a) What is the heat loss per unit length from the bare pipe (no insulation)? Estimate
the heat loss per unit length if a 50 mm thick layer of insulation (magnesia, 85 %)
is added. The steel and magnesia may each be assumed to have an emissivity of 0.8,
and the steam-side convection resistance may be neglected. Thermal conductivity of
magnesia is 0.058 W m−1 K−1 .

b) The costs associated with generating the steam and installing the insulation are known
to be | 300 per GJ and | 7500 per m of pipe length, respectively. If the steam line
is to operate 7500 hours per year, how many years are needed to pay back the initial
investment in insulation?

Answers:

1. (a): 4.312 kW, (b): | 310.5 per day

2. 47.1 W m−1

3. (a): 3.72 kW m−1 and 0.163 kW m−1 , (b): 0.26 years

EN 317, DESE, IIT Bombay 24-8-2021 Page 1 of 1

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