[April-19]

[EME-306]
B.Tech. Degree Examination
Mechanical Engineering
VI SEMESTER
HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER
(Effective from the admitted batch 2015–16 onwards)
Time: 3 Hours Max.Marks: 60
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Instructions: Each module carries 12 marks.
Answer all modules choosing one question from each module
All parts of the module must be answered in one place only.
Figures in the right hand margin indicate marks allotted.
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MODULE-I
1. a) A cold storage room has walls made of 23 cm of brick on the
outside, 8 cm of plastic foam and finally 1.5 cm of wood on the
inside. The outside and inside air temperatures are 22°C and -2°C
respectively. The inside and outside heat transfer coefficients are
respectively 29 and 12 W/m2.K. The thermal conductivities of
brick, foam and wood are 0.98, 0.02 and 0.12 W/m.K respectively.
If the total wall area is 90 m2, determine the rate of heat removal
by refrigeration and the temperature of the inside surface of the
brick. 6
b) Write about lumped heat capacity system. 6
OR
2. a) Explain the effect of temperature on thermal conductivity of
solids, liquid and gas with proper reason. 6
b) A piece of aluminium weighing 6 kg and initially at a temperature
of 3000C is suddenly immersed in a fluid at 200C. The convection
heat transfer coefficient is 58 W/m2 K. Taking the aluminium as a
sphere having the same weight as that given, estimate the time
required to cool the aluminium to 900C, using the lumped-capacity
method of analysis. 6
 MODULE-II
3. a) Air at 20°C at 3m/s flows over a thin plate of 2m long and 1m
wide at 1000C. Estimate the boundary layer thickness at the
trailing edge, total drag force, mass flow of air between x = 30cm
and x = 80cm . Also calculate heat transferred.
Take viscosity = 15 x 10-6 kg/ms and density = 1.17kg/m3. 6
b) Write about Colburn’s analogy. 6
OR
4. a) Explain the development of velocity and thermal boundary layers
for flow over a flat plate. 6
b) Calculate the convective heat transfer from a radiator 0.5m wide
and 1m high at 840C in a room at 200C. Treat the radiator as a
vertical plate. 6
MODULE-III
5. a) Two very large parallel planes exchange heat by radiation. The
emissivities of the planes are respectively 0.8 and 0.3. To
minimize the radiation exchange between the planes, a polished
aluminium radiation shield is placed between them. If the
emissivity of the shield is 0.04 on both sides, find the percentage
reduction in heat transfer rate. 8
b) Write briefly about specular and diffuse radiation. 4
OR
6. a) Define following: (i) Grey body (ii) Irradiation (iii) Emissivity. 3
b) An enclosure measures 1.5m* 1.5m with a height of 2m under
steady state conditions, The wall and ceiling are maintained at
525 K and floor is at 400K. Determine net radiation to floor.
Take emissivity of ceiling and wall = 0.85 and emissivity of
floor = 0.75. 9
MODULE-IV
7. a) Define effectiveness for heat exchanger and derive its equation for
parallel flow heat exchanger. 5
 b) Hot gases enter a finned tube, cross flow heat exchanger with a
flow rate of 1.5 kg/s and a temperature of 250°C. The gases are
used to heat water entering the exchanger at a flow rate of 1 kg/s
and an inlet temperature of 35°C. On the gas side, the overall heat
transfer coefficient and the area are 100 W/m2.K and 40 m2
respectively. What is the rate of heat transfer by the exchanger
and what are the gas and water exit temperatures? Assume CP of
gas as 1.0 kJ/kg.K. 7
OR
8. a) Explain Plate type heat exchanger with its advantage and
disadvantage. 5
b) In an automobile radiator, water, which has a flow rate of
0.05 kg./s enters at 400 K. and is to leave at 330 K. The water is
cooled by air which enters at 0.75 kg./s and 300 K. If the overall
heat transfer coefficient is 200 W/m2 K, what is the required heat
transfer surface area. What is its effectiveness? 7
MODULE-V
9. a) Dry air at 270C and 1 bar flows over a wet plate of 50cm at 50m/s.
Calculate the mass transfer coefficient of water vapour in air at the
end of the plate. 6
b) How does mass transfer differ from bulk fluid motion? State
Fick’s law of diffusion. 6
OR
10. a) Short notes on Evaporation process in the atmosphere. 4
b) What is critical heat flux. 4
c) Write a short note on flow boiling. 4

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