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Heat Transfer Activity Sheet Chapter 2

The document contains numerical problems related to heat transfer through composite walls, cylinders, spheres and refrigerators. It includes problems calculating heat transfer rates, temperatures at various points, thermal conductivities and overall heat transfer coefficients for multi-layer structures.

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College of Engineering and Technology

Engineering Department
HEAT TRANSFER Semester-II
Academic year 2023-24
Class Activity Sheet on Chapter 2

Numerical on Slab and Composite slab/Walls


1. A composite wall is made up of 3 layers of thicknesses 25 cm, 10 cm and 15 cm with
thermal conductivities of first layer and third layer are 1.65 and 9.2 W/mK. The outside
surface is exposed to air at 25°C with a convection coefficient of 12 W/m2 K and the inside
is exposed to gases at 1250°C with a convection coefficient of 25 W/m2 K and the inside
surface is at 1100°C. Evaluate the unknown thermal conductivity of the center layer and
the overall heat transfer coefficient per unit area.
2. A vegetable storage room has walls made of 220 mm of redbrick having thermal
conductivity of 0.99 W/mK on the outside, 90 mm of cement plaster having thermal
conductivity of 0.022 W/mK on the middle and finally 16 mm of plywood having thermal
conductivity of 0.17 W/mK on the inside. If the outside and inside wall temperatures are
25 0 C and -3 0 C respectively, calculate the rate of heat removal by refrigeration if total wall
area is 85 m2.
3. The inner surface of a plane wall made up of stainless steel having a thermal conductivity
of 40 W/ m 0 C and 220 mm thick is at 60 0 C and the outer surface is at 35 0 C. Calculate the
temperature at a distance of 50 mm from the outer surface and heat flux in kW
4. The interior of a refrigerator is to be maintained at 6 0 C. The walls of the refrigerator are
constructed of two mild steel sheets of 3 mm thick having a thermal conductivity of 46.5
W/m0 C with 50 mm of glass wool insulation having a thermal conductivity of 0.046
W/m0 C between them. If the average heat transfer coefficients at the outer and inner surface
are 11.6 W/m2 0 C and 14.5 W/m2 0 C respectively, calculate i) The rate at which heat must
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be removed from the interior having a total area
of 2.5 m2 to maintain the specified temperature of the kitchen at 25 0 C and the temperature
on the outer and inside surfaces of the metal sheet.
Numerical on cylinder and Composite cylinder
5. A 240 mm steam pipe, 210 m long is covered with 50 mm of high-temperature insula tio n
having k = 0.092 W/m 0 C and 40 mm of low-temperature insulation having k= 0.062
W/m0 C. The inner and outer surface temperatures as measured are 390 0 C and 40 0C
respectively. Evaluate the total heat loss per hour and temperature between two layers of
insulation.
6. A steam pipe 30 m long with an outer diameter of 120 mm is covered with two layers of
insulation. The inside layer of 45 mm thick has a thermal conductivity of 0.08 W/mK
and the outside layer of 30 mm thick has a thermal conductivity of 0.12 W/mK. The
pipe carries steam at a temperature of 262 o C. The outside layer is exposed to 25 oC
temperature. Estimate heat lost per hour and interface temperature of the insulation
7. A pipe 60 mm diameter is insulated by covering with asbestos having thermal conductivity
0.172 W/mK and exposed to room air at 300 K with h = 2.8 W/m2 K. Calculate the critical
radius of insulation and heat loss per meter length from a pipe at 475K
8. A steel pipe with a 50 mm outer diameter is covered with a 6.4 mm asbestos insula tio n
having a thermal conductivity of 0.166 W/m0 C followed by a 25 mm layer of fiberglass
insulation having a thermal conductivity of 0.0485 W/m0 C. The pipe wall temperature is
393 K and the outside insulation temperature is 311 K. Evaluate i) the rate of heat transfers
per meter length of the pipe and ii) the interface temperature between the asbestos and
fiberglass.
Numerical on sphere and Composite sphere
1. A spherical vessel, made out of 1.5 cm thick steel plate is used to store 15 m3 of a liquid at
220°C for a thermal storage system. To reduce the heat loss to the surroundings, a 15 cm
thick layer of insulation (k = 0.07 W/mK) is used. If the convective heat transfer coeffic ie nt
at the outer surface is 10W/m2 K and the ambient temperature is 35°C, calculate the rate of
heat loss neglecting the thermal resistance of the steel plate.
Reference: 1. Heat and mass transfer by R. K Rajput library copy.

2. Fundamentals of Heat and mass transfer by C. P Kothandaraman

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