INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA

END OF SEMESTER EXAMINATION

SEMESTER II 2012/2013 SESSION
KULLIYYAH OF ENGINEERING
Program

: ENGINEERING

Level of Study

: UG3

Time
Duration

: 2.30 p.m. 5.30 p.m.

: 3 Hr

Date

: 05/06/2013

Sections

: 1 and 2

Course Code : BTE 3215

Course Title

: Heat and Mass Transfer

This Question Paper Consists of fourteen (14) Printed Pages (including Cover Page) with
five (5) Questions in Part A and four (4) Questions in Part B
INSTRUCTION(S) TO CANDIDATES
DO NOT OPEN UNTIL YOU ARE ASKED TO DO SO

Attempt All Questions in Part A.

(Total marks = 50)
In Part B: Q6 is Compulsory. Answer any Two (2) questions from Q7, Q8, Q9
and Q10.
(Total marks = 50)
Answers should be clear and intelligible.
Whenever appropriate, justify your answer.
No books, notes and programmable calculators are permitted.
For specific instructions, please refer to the appropriate section.
A list of formulae and material properties are attached at the end of the question
paper.

Any form of cheating or attempt to cheat is a serious offence

which may lead to dismissal.

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Part A:
Answer ALL. Total marks for Part A = [50 marks]
Q1 [10 Marks]
a) What is the physical significance of Prandtl number? Is it possible to consider Pr
as fluid property? Explain how.
(5 marks)
b) Consider a hot baked potato. Will the potato cool faster or slower when we blow
the warm air coming from our lungs on it instead of letting it cool naturally in the
cooler air in the room? Explain using Newtons law of cooling.
(5 marks)
Q2 [10 Marks]
a) Explain briefly the advantages of lumped capacitance analysis and the
circumstances under which this is a suitable approach.
(5 marks)
b) What are the characteristics of a blackbody? Does such a thing actually exist in
nature? What is the principal role of a blackbody behavior in radiation analysis?
(5
marks)
Q3 [10 Marks]
a)

Your friend asserts that, in a heat exchanger, it is impossible for the exit
temperature of the cold fluid to be greater than the exit temperature of the hot
fluid when both fluids are single phase fluids. What is your response? Explain
using diagrams.
(5 marks)

b) Consider air (O2 and N2) in a closed, cylindrical container with its axis vertical
and with opposite ends maintained at different temperatures. If the bottom surface
is colder than the top surface, does mass transfer occur? Explain using Ficks
Law.
(5 marks)
Q4 [10 Marks]
a) Explain the variation of convective heat transfer coefficient in the thermally
developing region and in the fully developed temperature profile region for both
external flow on a flat plate and internal flow in a tube. Show the variation of h
versus x for both cases.
(5 marks)
b) How does dropwise condensation differ from film condensation? Which mode of
condensation is characterized by larger heat transfer rates? Why?
(5 marks)

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Q5 [10 Marks]
Consider a hemispherical furnace of diameter, D = 5 m with a flat base as shown in
Figure 1. The dome of the furnace is black, and the base has an emissivity of 0.7. The
base and the dome of the furnace are maintained at uniform temperature of 400 K and
1000 K, respectively. Determine;
a) The view factors F12 and F21.

(5 marks)

b) The net rate of radiation heat transfer from the dome to the base surface during steady
operation.
(5 marks)

Figure 1

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Part B: Q6 is Compulsory. Answer any Two (2) questions from

Q7, Q8, Q9 and Q10.Total marks for this part = [50 marks]
Q6 [20 Marks]
A house built on a riverside is to be cooled in summer by utilizing the cool water of the
river, which flows at an average temperature of 15C. A 15 m long section of a circular
duct of 20 cm diameter passes through the water as shown in Figure 2. Air enters the
underwater section of the duct at Tm,i = 35 C and velocity, u = 3 m/s. Assume the
surface of the duct is at the temperature of the water (Ts = 15C).
Air
35 C, 3 m/s

Figure 2
Assuming the bulk mean temperature of air to be 300 K, and using properties of air at
1 atm and 300 K and determine
a) The convective heat transfer coefficient h.

(6 marks)

b) The outlet temperature of air Tm,o as it leaves the underwater portion of the duct.
(6 marks)
c) The pressure loss through the pipe and the minimum power required to overcome the
resistance to flow.
(8 marks)
Q7 [15 Marks]
Air at 50C and 3 atm flows over a 100 cm x 100 cm flat-plate held at a constant
temperature of 204C. Determine,
a) air speed that will assure laminar flow over the entire plate.

(5 marks)

b) the thickness of boundary layer at a distance of 40 mm from the leading edge.

(5 marks)

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c) if the emissivity of the plate is 0.8, determine total heat transfer during this flow.
(5 marks)
Q8 [15 Marks]
A thin-walled container with a hot process fluid at 50 C is placed in quiescent, cold
water path at 10 C as sown in Figure 3. Heat transfer at the inner and outer surfaces of
the container may be approximated by free convection from a vertical plate.
If the surface temperature on the cold water side is 34 C, determine

Figure 3
a) the Rayleigh number RaL.

(5 marks)

b) Nusselt number NuL.

(5 marks)

c) Estimate the convection heat rate per unit thickness of the wall.

(5 marks)

Q9 [15 Marks]
A counterflow, concentric tube heat exchanger is used to cool an industrial product ( =
860 kg/m3, Pr = 500, k = 0.138 W/mK , = 32.6 x10-3 Ns/m2 ). The flow rate of cooling
water through the inner tube ( Di = 2 cm) is 0.5 kg/s, while the flow rate of the industrial
product through the outer annulus (D0 = 3 cm) is 0.8 kg/s. The product enters at 100 C.
The water enters at 34 C and leaves at 60 C. Determine
a) Convective heat transfer coefficient of the cooling water.

(5 marks)

b) The overall heat transfer coefficient of this heat exchanger.

(Hint : Take Nui = 5.45 for Di/D0 = 0.667 by interpolation)

(5 marks)

c) How long must the tube be if the outlet temperature of the product is to be 70 C?
(5 marks)
Q10 [15 Marks]
Ethanol (species A) is diffusing through a 4 mm stagnant film of water (species B). The
ethanol concentrations of the entrance and the exiting planes are maintained at 0.1 and
0.02 mol/m3, respectively. If the water film temperature is 283 K, determine
a) The mass diffusivity of ethanol in water at 283 K.

(5 marks)

b) The steady state molar flux of the ethanol.

(5 marks)

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c) The concentration profile as a function of position x within the liquid film.

(5 marks)

Some useful equations and constants:

1. Heat equation

T

T

T
T
k

k

k
q c p
x
x
y
y
z
z
t

1
T
1 T
T
T
k

kr
2
k
q c p
r r
r
r
z
z
t

2. Stefan-Boltzmann constant = 5.67X10-8 W/m2K4

3. Thermal entry length for laminar flow
x fd ,t

0.05 Re D Pr
lam

4. Internal forced convection for constant surface

temperature condition,

To Ts Tm , o
PL

exp
h

Ti
Ts Tm ,i
m
c
p

Tlm

Ts = constant

To Ti
T

ln o
Ti

p f

u m 2 L
2D

P p V

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5. Natural Convection for vertical plate:

RaL

g Ts T L3

Nu L 0.825

For all RaL,

0.387 RaL

1 0.492 / Pr 169

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6. Heat Exchanger -NTU Method

Cr

Cmin
,
Cmax

q
qmax

NTU

UA
,
Cmin

qmax Cmin (Th ,i Tc ,i )

5. Ficks Law of Diffusion (stationary medium

approximation)
N A, x CDAB A

DAB p 1T

dx A
dx

xA C A

2C A 2 C A 2 C A
N
1 C A

A
2
2
2
x
y y
z
DAB DAB t

6. Radiation Exchange: The Two-Surface Enclosure

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(T14 T24 )
q12 q1 q2
1 1
1
1 2

1 A1 A1F12 2 A2

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