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Heat and Mass Transfer (ME3104)

Assignment 3: HX’s & RHT

Faculty: Dr. Sebastian Uppapalli ([email protected])


TA: MD Irfan Ali ([email protected])

Part A: Subjective and Short Questions

1) In a counter flow heat exchanger, if the hot and cold fluids enter at T1 and T2 respectively, whereas cold fluid
leaves at T3 and hot fluid leaves at T4, then LMTD is given by .
2) Compared to parallel flow heat exchanger, LMTD in case of counter-flow heat exchanger is .
3) For a heat exchanger, ΔTmax is the maximum temperature difference and ΔTmin is the minimum temperature
difference between the two fluids. LMTD is the log mean temperature difference. Cmin and Cmax are the
minimum and the maximum heat capacity rates. The maximum possible heat transfer (Qmax) between the
two fluids is .
a) Cmin*LMTD
b) Cmin* ΔTmax
c) Cmax* ΔTmax
d) Cmax* ΔTmin
4) In a condenser of a power plant, the steam condenses at a temperature of 60 OC. The cooling water enters at
30 OC and leaves at 45 OC. The logarithmic mean temperature difference of the condenser is .
a) 16.2 OC; b) 21.6 OC; c) 30 OC; d) 37.5 OC
5) Consider a counter-flow heat exchanger with the inlet temperatures of two fluids (1 & 2) being T1, in =300K
and T2, in =350K. The heat capacity rates of the two fluids are C1 =1000 W/K and C2 is equal to 400 W/K, and
the effectiveness of the heat exchanger is 0.5. The actual heat transfer rate is kW.
6) If one of the two fluids flowing through a heat exchanger of NTU=2 remains at constant temperature
throughout the exchanger length, the effectiveness of the heat exchanger will be .
a) 1-e-4; b) 1-e-2; c) (1-e-2)/2; d) (1-e2)/2
7) If the temperature of solid surface changes from 27 OC to 67 OC, then its emissive power changes in the ratio
of .
a) 3; b) 6; c) 9; d) 81
8) What will be the value of the shape factor for two infinite parallel surfaces separated by a distance ‘d’ .
a) 0; b) ∞; c) 1; d) d
9) What is the equivalent emissivity for radiant heat exchange between a small body (emissivity=0.4) in a very
large enclosure (emissivity= 0.5) .
a) 0.5; b) 0.4; c) 0.2; d) 0.1
10) A cylindrical rod of length ‘h’ and diameter ‘d’ is placed inside a cubic enclosure of side length ‘L’.
‘S’ denotes the inner surface of the tube. The view factor FS-S is .
a) 0; b) 1; c) (dh+d2/2)/6L2; d) 1-(dh+d2/2)/6L2

Part B: Workout problems

1) A counter flow steam condenser is to be designed to transfer 300 kW of thermal energy from steam at a
condensing temperature of 45 OC. The cooling water enters the condenser at 20 OC with a flow rate of
25,000 kg/hour and specific heat 4.18 kJ/kgK. Determine the surface area required to handle this load if the
overall heat transfer coefficient is 1400 W/m2K. If the outside tube diameter is 30 mm and the tube length is
1m, calculate the number of tubes.
2) A counter flow heat exchanger is employed to cool 0.55 kg/s (CP = 2.45 KJ/kgK) of oil from 115 OC to
40 OC by the use of water. The inlet and outlet temperatures of cooling water are 15 OC and 75 OC. The overall
heat transfer coefficient is expected to be 1450 Watt/m2K. Using NTU method calculate the following
(a) the mass flow rate of water, (b) effectiveness of the heat exchanger, and (c) the surface area required.

3) A black body emits radiation @ 2000 K. Calculate (a) monochromatic emissive power at 1 m wavelength,
(b) wavelength at which emission is maximum, and (c) the maximum emissive power.

4) Calculate heat transfer per unit area by radiation between surfaces of two (=0.5) long cylinders having radii
10 cm and 5 cm. The small cylinder being inside the larger cylinder. The axes are parallel to each other but are
separated by distance of 1 cm. Assume inner cylinder surface is maintained at 400 K and outer at 300 K.

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