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Refrigerated Truck (Chapters 3 and 5)

Prepare the thermal design for a refrigerated container truck to carry frozen meat from Butte,
Montana, to Phoenix, Arizona. The refrigerated shipping container has dimensions of 6 m × 3 m
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temperature of the container during the trip may rise up to 38°C. Dry ice currently costs $0.6/kg
and the shipping company would like to know the amount of dry ice required for one trip and its
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Assumptions:

• The top of the container is idealized flat plate. Principles of Accounting ENTR
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• Take the velocity of the truck is .

• Consider the heat required for sublimation of dry ice is .

• Consider the duration of the trip is one day.

• Consider the cost of thick steel per square meter is .

Write the general formula for interpolation.

Here, is the higher limit of the corresponding required value, is the lower limit of the
corresponding required value, is the reference value, is the higher limit value and
is the lower limit value.

Take the thermal properties of the air at by referring appendix 2 table 28 (Thermal
properties of the dry air at atmospheric pressure).

Calculate the thermal conductivity of the air at by using interpolation method.

Similarly,

Kinematic viscosity of the air is .

Prandtl number for the air is .

Write the mathematical expression for Reynolds number.

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Here, is Reynolds number, is free stream velocity of the flowing fluid, is length of the
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Substitute for , for and for .

The Reynolds number so flow over the plate is turbulent.

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Write the equation for the Nusselt number.

Here, is Nusselt number, is average heat transfer coefficient and is thermal

conductivity of the air.

Substitute for , for , for and for in above

obtained expression.

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Write the equation for the area exposed to heat transfer.

Here, is width of the truck and is height of the truck.

Substitute for , for and for in above expression.

To maintain the temperature inside the truck, required cooling rate should be equal to the rate of
heat transfer from the truck surface.

Write the equation for the net heat transfer through the truck.

Here, is area exposed to heat transfer, is net heat transfer through the truck, is
temperature of the air and is surface temperature of the truck.

Substitute for , for , for and for .

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Calculate the rate of dry ice required to maintain the truck temperature.
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…… (1)

Here, is the rate of dry ice required to maintain the truck temperature.

Substitute for in equation (1).

Calculate the total cooling cost for one day trip.

…… (2)

Here, is cost of the dry ice.

Substitute for and for in equation (2).

Thus, the cost of the one trip is .

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Select the steel as an insulating material because it has high strength, low thermal conductivity
and longer life.

Consider the thickness of the steel is .

Calculate the heat transfer through the steel.

Here, is thermal conductivity of the steel and is heat transfer in the truck after insulation.

Obtain the thermal conductivity of the steel by referring appendix 2 table 10 (Thermal properties
of alloys)

Thermal conductivity of steel is .

Substitute for , for , for , for for

and for .

Substitute for in equation (1).

Substitute for and for in equation (2).

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Calculate the total cost of ten years trips without using the insulation.

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Calculate the total cost of ten years trips after using the insulation.

Calculate the saving of money after the use of insulation.

Calculate the total cost of the steel insulation.

Therefore, the cost of per trip will be less when insulation is used.

As the thickness of the insulation increases up to the critical thickness of the insulation, than the
requirement of the dry ice will decrease.

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