Assignment 01

M3017 Heat Transfer Due date: August 28, 2017

1. In a power plant, pipes transporting superheated vapor are very common. Superheated
vapor is flowing at rate of 0.3 kg/s inside a pipe with 5 cm in diameter and 10 m in length.
The pipe is located in a power plant at 20C, and has uniform pipe surface of 100C. If the
temperature drop between the inlet and the exit of the pipe is 30C, and the specific heat
is of the vapor is 2190 J/kg.K, determine the heat transfer coefficient as a result of
convection between the pipe surface and the surrounding

2. A 800-W iron is left on the iron board with its base exposed to the air at 20C. the convection
heat transfer coefficient between the base surface and the surrounding air is 35 W/m2.K. if
the base has an emissivity of 0.6 and a surface area of 0.02 m2, determine the temperature
of the base of the iron.

3. A large plane wall has a thickness L=50 cm and a thermal conductivity k=25 W/m.K. On the
left surface (x=0), it is subjected to a uniform heat flux 0 while the surface temperature T0
is constant. On the right surface, it experiences convection and radiation heat transfer while
the surface temperature is TL=225C and the surrounding temperature is 25C. the
emissivity and the convection heat transfer coefficient on the right surface are 0.7 and 15
W/m2.K, respectively. Show that the variation of temperature in the wall can be expressed
 as () = (0 / )( ) + , where 0 = 5130 W/m2, and determine the temperature of
the left surface of the wall at x=0

4. A 2-kW resistance heater wire with thermal conductivity ok k = 20W/m.K, a diameter of D =

4 mm, and a length of L = 0.9 m is used to boil water. If the outer surface temperature of
the resistance wire is TS = 230 C, determine the temperature at the center of the wire

5. A long homogeneous resistance wire of radius r0 = 5 mm is being used to heat the air in the
room by the passage of electric current. Heat is generated in the wire uniformly at a rate of
5x107 w/m3 as a result of resistance heating. If the temperature of the outer surface of the
wire remains at 180 C, determine the temperature at r=3.5 mm after steady operation
conditions are reached. Take the thermal conductivity of the wire to be k = 6 W/m.K