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Paredes sencillas y multicapa

4-1 Consider a slab of thickness 10 cm. One surface is kept at 20°C and the other at 100°C. Determine the heat
flow rate across the slab if the slab is made of pure copper [k = 387 W/(m * °C)], pure aluminum [A = 202 W/(m
* °C)], and pure iron [k = 62 W/(m * °C)]. Answer: 33,80 kW.
4-2 A brick wall [k = 0.69 W/(m * °C)] 5 cm thick is exposed to cool air at 10°C with a heat transfer coefficient of
10 W/(m2 * °C) at one of its surfaces, while the other surface is kept at 70°C. What is the temperature of the
surface that is exposed to cool air? Answer: 44,9°C.
4-3 Consider a furnace wall [k = 1 W/(m * °C)] with the inside surface at 1000°C and the outside surface at
400°C. If the heat flow through the wall should not exceed 2000 W/m2, what is the minimum wall thickness L?
Answer: 30 cm.
4-4 Consider a plane wall 25cm thick. The inner surface is kept at 400°C, and the outer surface is exposed to
an environment at 800°C .with a heat transfer coefficient of 10 W/(m * °C). If the temperature of the outer surface
is 685°C, calculate the thermal conductivity of the wall. What might the material be? Answers 1,01 W/(m * °C),
Fireclay brick (burned 1330 °C).
4-15 A container made of 2-cm-thick iron plate [k = 62 W/(m * °C)] is insulated with a 1 cm thick asbestos layer
[k = 0,1 W(m * °C)]. If the inner surface of the iron plate is exposed to hot gas at 530°C with a heat transfer
coefficient of 100 W/(m2 * °C) and the outer surface of the asbestos is in contact with cool air at 30°C with a heat
transfer coefficient 20 W/(m2 * °C), calculate: (a) the heat flow rate across the layers per square meter of surface
area, and (b) the interface temperature between the layers. Answers: (a) 3119 W/m2, (b) 497,8 °C.
4-17 An industrial furnace is made of fireclay brick 0,3 m thick with a thermal conductivity of 1,5 W/(m * °C). The
outside surface is to be insulated with a material that has a thermal conductivity of 0,01 W/(m * °C) and a
thickness of 0,2m. The inner surface of the furnace is kept at 600°C, while the outer surface of the insulation
material is exposed to cool air at 30°C with a heat transfer coefficient of 15 W/(m 2 * °C). Calculate the heat flow
rate across the layers per square meter of surface area and the outer surface temperature of the furnace.
Answers: 28,12 W/m2, 31,9 °C.
4-20 The wall of a building consists of 10 cm of brick [k = 0,69 W/ (m * °C)], 1,25 cm of Celotex [k = 0,048 W/(m
* °C)], 8 cm of glass wool [k = 0,038 W/(m * °C)], and 1,25 cm of asbestos cement board [k = 0,74 W/(m * °C)].
If the outside surface of the brick is at 5°C and the inside surface of the cement board is at 20°C, calculate the
heat flow rate per square meter of wall surface. Answers: -5,94 W/m2
4-21 A plane wall of thickness L1 and thermal conductivity k1 is covered with an insulation layer of thermal
conductivity k2. The inside surface of the wall is maintained at a uniform temperature T 1, and the outside surface
of the insulation layer is exposed to air at temperature T ∞2 with a heat transfer coefficient h∞2. Develop an
expression for determining the thickness L 2 of the insulation layer needed to reduce the heat loss from the
(𝑻𝟐 −𝑻𝟑 )(𝑲𝟐 𝑨)
uninsulated wall by 30 percent. Answer: 𝑳𝟐 =
𝑸

4-22 A wall of a building is made of 8 cm of building brick [k =0,69 W/(m * °C)], 2 cm of Celotex [k = 0,048 W/(m
* °C)], and 2 cm of an asbestos cement board [k = 0,74 W(m * °C)] Glass wool [k = 0,038 W/(m * °C)] is to be
added between the Celotex and Asbestos to reduce the heat flow rate through the wall by 50 percent. Determine
the thickness of the cement board. Answer: 2,1 cm.
4-23 Determine the interface temperature T1 and the surface temperature T3 of the composite wall shown in Fig.
P4-23. Answer: T1=66,68 °C and T3=43,75 °C.
 Figure P4-23

4-24 Consider a multilayer plane wall consisting of three parallel layers in perfect thermal contact, as illustrated
in Fig. 4-9. Develop expressions for the determination of the interface temperatures T1 and T2. Answer: T1=T0-
Q*RK1 and T2=T1-Q*RK2.

Figure 4-9