FEB 423: HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER

COURSE CONTENT
1. Introduction
• Introduction and mechanism of Heat transfer
- Definition of terms and equations
- Mechanisms of heat transfer
- Heat transfer in unit operation
- Examples
• Introduction to mass transfer
2. Steady State Conduction
a) One -Dimensional Steady State Conduction
• The Plane Wall
• Temperature Distribution
• Thermal Resistance
• The Composite Wall
• Contact Resistance
• Porous Media
• Radial Systems
• The Cylinder
• The Sphere
b) Two-Dimensional Steady State Conduction
3. Unsteady state conduction
4. Convective Heat Transfer
• Definitions of Convective Heat Transfer
• Heat transfer coefficient
• Empirical relations used in determining Heat Transfer Coefficient-Nusselt number, Prandtl
number, Reynold number, Grashof number, Graetz number, Rayleigh number
• Laminar and Turbulent flow, Velocity Boundary layer
- Thermal Boundary layer
- Forced and free convection
- Calculating Heat Transfer coefficient -turbulent flow in tubes and laminar flow in
tubes and channels
5. Heat Exchangers
• What are heat exchangers?
• Applications of Heat Exchangers
• Classification of Heat Exchangers
• Temperature distribution
• Heat Exchange Analysis and Design
• Log -Mean Temperature Difference (LMTD)
6. Radiation Heat Transfer
• Defining radiation
• Thermal radiation
• Black body radiation
• Laws of Radiation
• Radiation properties
• Emissivity, Absorptivity, Reflectivity, and Transmissivity
• Kirchhoff’s laws
• Solar radiation
• Net Radiative Flux
• Radiative Heat Transfer Coefficient
7. Introduction to Mass transfer
• Introduction to mass transfer
• Diffusion phenomena
• Modes of mass transfer
- Molecular diffusion and Convective mass transfer