Heat

Transfer:
Conduction
Conduction is a mode of heat transfer in
which heat is transferred by molecular
interaction through bodies in contact.

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Conduction
✗ Heat conduction can be visualized as occurring through
molecular collisions.
✗ The heat flow per unit time is given by:

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✗ The constant k is called the thermal conductivity.
✗ Materials with large k are called conductors; those with
small k are called insulators.

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Building materials are measured using R−values rather
than thermal conductivity:

Here, is the thickness of the material.

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2. Conduction through composite
plane walls
✗ For composite wall shown in the figure, if the heat flows in series first through one slab and then another, Furrier's
equation can be applied as:
𝑘 𝐴 𝐴(𝑇𝐴 −𝑇𝐵 )
𝑄 𝐴=
𝑥𝐴
𝑘 𝐵 𝐴(𝑇𝐵 −𝑇𝐶)
𝑄 𝐵=
𝑥𝐵
TA TB
𝑘 𝐶 𝐴(𝑇𝐶 − 𝑇𝐷 )
𝑄 𝐶= TC
𝑥𝐶
TD = 36
=

Q = QA = QB = QC
(for steady state heat transfer)

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Conduction through composite wall
Examples:

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1. A vertical furnace wall is made up of an inner wall of firebrick 20
cm thick followed by insulating brick 15 cm thick and an outer wall of
steel 1cm thick. The surface temperature of the wall adjacent to the
combustion chamber is 1250°C while that of the outer surface of steel
is 75°C. The insulating conductivities of the wall material in W/m-K
are: firebrick, 10; insulating brick, 0.26; and steel, 45. Neglecting the
film resistance and contact resistances of joints, determine the heat loss
per square meter of the wall area in kJ/s-m².

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2. One side of refrigerated cold chamber is 6m long by 3.7 m high and
consists of 168 mm thickness of cork between outer and inner walls of
wood. The outer wood wall is 30 mm thick and its outside face
temperature is 20°C. The inner wood wall is 35mm thick and its inside
face temperature is -3°C. taking the coefficient of thermal conductivity
of cork and wood as 0.42 and 0.20 W/m-K respectively. Calculate the
heat transfer per second per square meter area.

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