FACULTY OF MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING

FINAL EXAMINATION
COURSE

HEAT TRANSFER

COURSE CODE

BFF3203

LECTURER

ASSOC. PROF. DR ABDUL AZIZ BIN

JAAFAR

DATE

9 JANUARY 2013

DURATION

3 HOURS

SESSION/SEMESTER

SESSION 2012/2013 SEMESTER I

PROGRAMME CODE

BFFIBFM

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATE:
(a) This Question Book is divided into Sections A and B, and Appendix 1. Answer ALL
Questions in both sections.
(b) All answers MUST be given in the Question Book.
EXAMINATION REQUIREMENTS:
NIL

DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO

This examination paper consists of ELEVEN (11) printed pages including front page.

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SECTION A
ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS
QUESTION 1 (10 MARKS)
(a) I Give reasons why energy balance is technically inappropriate to solve conduction and
(10 marks)
convection heat transfers in a thermal engineering problems

QUESTION 2 (15 MARKS)

Consider brass and aluminium of equal geometrical dimensions are being heated to an elevated
temperature before they are cooled to surrounding temperature.

(a)

(5 marks)

which metal cool faster

(10 marks)

(b) briefly state your reasons

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QUESTION 3 (15 MARKS)

Hot stamping technique for quenchable steel involves heating the metal sheet until complete
austenitization (900C to 950C, in 4 to 10 minutes duration). The hot sheet is transferred to a
press machine and immediately stamped in order to take advantage of the excellent formability at
high temperature (600C to 800C). The press machine tool is held closed for 20 seconds for
quenching the sheet below the martensite finish temperature.
Give opinion on the importance of conduction heat transfer in the hot stamping technique from
(15 marks)

the above statements.

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SECTION B
ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS
QUESTION 1 (15 MARKS)
In a production facility, 3-cm- thick brass plates that are initially at a uniform temperature of
C are heated by passing them through an oven for a period of time.

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The oven temperature is

maintained at 700 C

(a)

Propose a suitable model of heat transfer system for the above engineering problem. Give
justification, if the plates are subjected to convection heat transfer with the surface heat
transfer coefficient of 80 W/m2K
(5 marks)

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(b) Determine the surface temperature of the plate when it is removed from the oven after 10
minutes
(10 marks)

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QUESTION 2 (25 MARKS'

Two 10mm thick stainless steel plates are subjected to a contact pressure of 1 bar under vacuum
conditions for which there is an overall temperature drop of 100 C across the plates.

(a)

Sketch the model of heat transfer system which includes the coordinate system and
engineering assumptions.

(5 marks)

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(b) Estimate the amount of heat flux through the plate and the temperature drop across the
contact plane.

(10 marks)

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(c) Determine the error in the calculations of heat flux and temperature drop if the thermal
contact conductance are ignored.

(10 marks)

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QUESTION 3 (20 MARKS)

.Air at 300 C and velocity of 2 m/s flows over a 0.5m long flat sheet metal plate to maintain its
surface temperature at 27 T.
Density
(kg/m3)
air

(a)

1.2

dynamic
viscosity
(kg/ms)
__ ___
1.825x105

Specific heat
at constant
pressure
(J/kg
1.005x103

thermal
conductivity
(W/mK)
0.02514

Determine the rate of cooling per unit width of the plate if the corresponding experimental
correlation for average Nusselt number is given by
NuL

0.664Re15Pr33

where Re and Pr are the Reynolds and Prandtl numbers respectively.

(15 marks)

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(b) I List engineering assumptions in your calculations

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(5 marks)

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Appendix 1
Thermal properties of a metal substance
Density
(kg/rn3)

Specific heat
at constant
pressure
(J/kgK)

Thermal
diffusivity
(2/s)

110

8530

380

33.9x106

237

2702

903

97.1x106

Substances

Thermal
conductivity
(W/rn2K)

brass
aluminium

The thermal contact resistance for the metallic interfaces under vacuum conditions

Contact Pressure
Substances
Stainless steel
aluminium

100 000 kN/m2

100 kN/m 2
6 x 104 - 25 x 10

(m2 KIW)

1.5 x 10 - 5.0 x 104 (m2 KIW)

0.7 x 10 4 - 4.0 x 10 4 (m2KIW)

0.2 x 10 4 - 0.4 x 104 (M2 KM

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