Assignment I

Heat and Mass Transfer

(Submit on A4 sheet paper on or before 26/03/2019)

1. A furnace wall is made up of three layers, one is fire brick, one is

insulating layer and one is red brick. The inner and outer surfaces
temperature are at 870C and 40C respectively. The respective
conductive heat transfer coefficients of the layers are 1.163, 0.14
and 0.872 W/mC and the thicknesses are 22 cm, 7.5 cm and 11 cm.
Find the rate of heat loss per sq. meter and the interface
temperature

2. A composite wall is made up of a 2.5 cm copper plate k 355 W/mK)

a 3.2 mm layer of asbestos k110 W/mK) and a 5 cm layer of fiber
plate (k 0.049 W/mK). The wall is subjected to an overall
temperature difference of 560C on the Cu plate side and 0C on the
fiber plate side. Estimate the heat flux through this composite wall
and interface temperature between asbestos and fiber plate.

3. A furnace wall is made up of 7.5 cm thick Fire clay brick and 0.65 cm
mild steel plate. The inner surface is exposed to hot gases at 650C.
Outside air temperature is 27C. The convection and radiation heat
transfer coefficient for the gas side is 60 W/m2C. The convection
heat transfer coefficient for the air side is 8 W/m2C. Determine heat
loss/ m2-hr surface temperature of steel plate.

4. A steel tube of 5 cm ID, 7.6 cm OD and k 15 W/mK is covered with

an insulation of thickness 2 cm and thermal conductivity. 0.2 W/m.K.
A hot gas at 330C and h 400 W/m2K flows inside the tube. The
outer surface of the insulation is exposed to cold air at 30C with h
50 W/m2.K. Assuming a tube length of 10 m, find the heat loss
from the tube to the air. Also find, across which layer the largest
temperature drop occurs.

5. A 3 cm OD steam pipe is to be covered with two layers of insulation

each having a thickness of 2.5 cm. The average thermal conductivity
of one insulation is 5 times that of other. Determine the percentage
decrease in heat transfer if better insulating material is next to pipe
than it in the outer layer. Assume that the outside and inside
temperatures of composite insulation are fixed

6. Determine the loss of heat through the wall of a rotating sphere

shaped boiling pan with an inner diameter d1 1.5 m and total boiler
wall thickness t 20 cm. Inner surface temperature is 200C and that
 of outer surface is 50C. The thermal conductivity of material is
0.13956 W/m C. Also find the heat flux,

7. A hollow sphere 1 m ID, 1.6 m OD is having a thermal conductivity of

1 W/mC. The inner surface temperature is 70 K, outer surface
temperature is 300 K. Determine (1) heat transfer rate (2)
temperature at a radius of 650 mm.

1.2
1.5
1.8
1.13
1.16
1.18