South valley university Faculty of engineering

Heat and mass transfer (2) Mechanical engineering Department

MPEP321 Power and energy sub department
3rd year 2019/2020

Sheet (6)
Convection Mass Transfer
1-In a manufacturing facility, wet brass plates coming out of a water bath are to be dried
by passing them through a section where dry air at 1 atm and 25°C is blown parallel to
their surfaces. If the plates are at 20°C and there are no dry spots, determine the rate of
evaporation from both sides of a plate.

Assumptions 1 -The low mass flux model and thus the analogy between heat and mass transfer is
applicable since the mass fraction of vapor in the air is low (about 2 percent for saturated air at
300 K). 2- The critical Reynolds number for flow over a flat plate is 500,000. 3- The plates are
far enough from each other so that they can be treated as flat plates. 4 -The air is dry so that the
amount of moisture in the air is negligible.
Properties The molar masses of air and water are M = 29 and M = 18 kg/kmol, respectively
(Table A-1). Because of low mass flux conditions, we can use dry air properties for the mixture.
The properties of the air at 1 atm and at the film temperature of (20 + 25) = 22.5ºC. are (Table
A-15)
ν = 1.539×10-5 m2/s ρ = 1.194 kg /m3
Cp = 1007 J / kg K Pr = 0.7303
The saturation pressure of water at 20ºC is 2.339 kPa (Table A-9). The mass diffusivity of water
vapor in air at 22.5ºC = 295.5 K is determined from Eq. 14-15 to be

Which is less than 500000, then the flow is laminar over the plate
 South valley university Faculty of engineering
Heat and mass transfer (2) Mechanical engineering Department
MPEP321 Power and energy sub department
3rd year 2019/2020

Discussion This is the upper limit for the evaporation rate since the air is assumed to be
completely dry.
2-One way of increasing heat transfer from the head on a hot summer day is to wet it. This
is especially effective in windy weather, as you may have noticed. Approximating the head
as a 30-cm-diameter sphere at 30°C with an emissivity of 0.95, determine the total rate of
heat loss from the head at ambient air conditions of 1 atm, 25°C, 40 percent relative
humidity, and 25 km/h winds if the head is (a) dry and (b) wet. Take the surrounding
temperature to be 25°C.
 South valley university Faculty of engineering
Heat and mass transfer (2) Mechanical engineering Department
MPEP321 Power and energy sub department
3rd year 2019/2020
 South valley university Faculty of engineering
Heat and mass transfer (2) Mechanical engineering Department
MPEP321 Power and energy sub department
3rd year 2019/2020