Homework #1

Department of Chemical Engineering

CHME 311: Heat Transfer (Fall 2020)

Issue Date: 3/09/2020

Due Date: 10/09/2020

Q1) A steel plate of 1/4-in and have a thermal conductivity of 25 Btu/h ft ◦F is exposed to a radiant
heat flux of 1500 Btu/h ft2 in a vacuum space where the convection heat transfer is negligible.
Assuming that the surface temperature of the steel exposed to the radiant energy is maintained at
100◦F, what will be the other surface temperature if all the radiant energy striking the plate is
transferred through the plate by conduction? [25 marks]

𝒒𝒒 ∆𝑻𝑻
𝒒𝒒" = = 𝒌𝒌
𝑨𝑨 ∆𝒙𝒙

𝑩𝑩𝑩𝑩𝑩𝑩 𝟏𝟏/𝟏𝟏𝟏𝟏 𝒇𝒇𝒇𝒇

𝟏𝟏𝟏𝟏𝟏𝟏𝟏𝟏 ∗ 𝟎𝟎. 𝟐𝟐𝟐𝟐 𝒊𝒊𝒊𝒊 ∗ 𝟏𝟏𝟏𝟏𝟏𝟏
𝒒𝒒" ∗ ∆𝒙𝒙 𝒉𝒉. 𝒇𝒇𝒇𝒇 𝟐𝟐
∆𝑻𝑻 = = = 𝟏𝟏. 𝟐𝟐𝟐𝟐 𝑭𝑭
𝒌𝒌 𝑩𝑩𝑩𝑩𝑩𝑩
𝟐𝟐𝟐𝟐
𝒉𝒉. 𝒇𝒇𝒇𝒇. 𝑭𝑭

∆𝑻𝑻 = 𝑻𝑻𝟏𝟏 − 𝑻𝑻𝟐𝟐 𝑻𝑻𝟐𝟐 = ∆𝑻𝑻 − 𝑻𝑻𝟏𝟏 = 𝟏𝟏𝟏𝟏𝟏𝟏 − 𝟏𝟏. 𝟐𝟐𝟐𝟐 = 𝟗𝟗𝟗𝟗. 𝟕𝟕𝟕𝟕 𝑭𝑭

Q2) A steel tube having k =46W/m. 0C has an inside diameter of 3.0 cm and a tube wall thickness
of 2 mm. A fluid flows on the inside of the tube producing a convection coefficient of 1500W/m2.
0
C on the inside surface, while a second fluid flows across the outside of the tube producing a
convection coefficient of 197 W/m2 . 0C on the outside tube surface. The inside fluid temperature
is 223 0C while the outside fluid temperature is 57 0C. Calculate the heat lost by the tube per meter
of length. [25 marks ]
Q3) A certain material has a thickness of 30 cm and a thermal conductivity of 0.04 W/m. 0C. At
a particular instant in time, the temperature distribution with x, the distance from the left face, is T
=150x2 −30x, where x is in meters. Calculate the heat-flow rates at x = 0 and x=30 cm. Is the solid
heating up or cooling down? [25 marks]
General Equation:
∂  ∂T  ∂  ∂T  ∂  ∂T  • ∂T
k  + k  + ∂z  k ∂z +q=ρcp
∂x  ∂x  ∂y  ∂y    ∂t
Q4) A wall of an apartment is exposed to an ambient temperature of 38◦C. The wall is covered
with a layer of insulation 2.5 cm thick whose thermal conductivity is 1.4 W/m◦C, and the
temperature of the wall on the inside of the insulation is 315◦C. The wall loses heat to the ambient
by convection.
Compute the value of the convection heat-transfer coefficient that must be maintained on the outer
surface of the insulation to ensure that the outer-surface temperature does not exceed 41◦C. [25
marks]

∆𝑻𝑻
𝒒𝒒 = 𝒌𝒌𝒌𝒌 = 𝒉𝒉𝒉𝒉(𝑻𝑻𝒐𝒐 − 𝑻𝑻∞ )
∆𝒙𝒙
∆𝑻𝑻
𝒌𝒌 = 𝒉𝒉(𝑻𝑻𝒐𝒐 − 𝑻𝑻∞ )
∆𝒙𝒙

𝑾𝑾
𝟏𝟏. 𝟒𝟒 (𝟑𝟑𝟑𝟑𝟑𝟑 𝒐𝒐𝑪𝑪 − 𝟒𝟒𝟒𝟒 𝒐𝒐𝑪𝑪)
𝒎𝒎 𝒐𝒐𝑪𝑪
= 𝒉𝒉(𝟒𝟒𝟒𝟒 𝒐𝒐𝑪𝑪 − 𝟑𝟑𝟑𝟑 𝒐𝒐𝑪𝑪)
𝟎𝟎. 𝟎𝟎𝟎𝟎𝟎𝟎 𝒎𝒎
𝑾𝑾
𝒉𝒉 = 𝟓𝟓𝟓𝟓𝟓𝟓𝟓𝟓
𝒎𝒎𝟐𝟐 𝒐𝒐𝑪𝑪