Department of Mechanical & Maintenance Engineering – FBC, USL.

Engineering Thermodynamics MENG 214

Assignment set-2
Date of Issue 18th Feb 2022
Date of Sumbission: 03rd March 2022

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Question 1
A cold storage consists of a cubical chamber of dimension 2m x 2m x 2m, maintained at 10°C
inside temperature. The outside wall temperature is 35°C. The top and side walls are covered by a
low conducting insulation with thermal conductivity k = 0.06 W/mK. There is no heat loss from the
bottom. If heat loss through the top and side walls is to be restricted to 500W,
what is the minimum thickness of insulation required?

Question 2
A square silicon chip is of width W=5mm on a side and of thickness t=1mm. The chip is mounted in a
substrate such that there is no heat loss from its side and back surfaces. The top surface
is exposed to a coolant. The thermal conductivity of the chip is 200W/m.K. If 5W are being dissipated by
the chip, what is the temperature difference between its back and front surfaces?

Question 3
Air flows over a rectangular plate having dimensions 0.5 m x 0.25 m. The free stream temperature of the
air is 300°C. At steady state, the plate temperature is 40C. If the convective heat transfer coefficient is 250
W/m2 .K, determine the heat transfer rate from the air to one side of the plate.

Question 4
A sphere of diameter 10 mm and emissivity 0.9 is maintained at 80°C inside an oven with
a wall temperature of 400°C. What is the net transfer rate from the oven walls to the object?

Question 5
A surface of area 0.5m 2 , emissivity 0.8 and temperature 150 0C is placed in a large, evacuated chamber
whose walls are maintained at 25 0C. Find the rate at which radiation is emitted by the surface? What is the
net rate of radiation exchange between the surface and the chamber walls?

Question 6
A solid aluminium sphere of emissivity e, initially at a high temperature, is cooled by convection and
radiation in a chamber having walls at a lower temperature. Convective cooling is achieved with
a gas passing through the chamber. Write a differential equation to predict the
variation of sphere temperature with time during the cooling process.