29. a.

A horizontat plate of 800 mm long, 70 mm wide is maintained at atemperature of 140"C in a

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large tank of full of water at 60oC determine total hat loss from plate.

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b. Air at 30oC flows over a flat plate at a velocity of 4 m/s. Ptate is maintained at 90oC. The Third/Fourth/Fifttr Semester
plate dimension is 90x30 cm2. Calculate the heat transfer for the fotlowing conditions
(i) First half of the plate 15ME3O2 _ HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER
(ii) For tulIplate (For the candidates admitted during the academic year 2015 2016 onwards)
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(iiD Next half of plate (Use of Heat and Mass Transfer data book permitted)
Note:
30. a. Two large parallel plates of size 1 m by I m spaced 0.5 m apart are located in a very large (1) Part - A should be answered in OMR sheet within first 45 minutes and OMR sheet should be handed
room. The walls of which are maintained at a temperature of 27oC. One plate is maintained over to hall invigilator at the end of 45n minute.
(ii) Part - B and Part - C should be answered in answer booklet.
at a temperature of 900'C and other at 400oC. The emissivities of plates we 0.2 and 0.5
respectively. If these plates exchange heat between themselves and surroundings, find the net
Time: Three Hours Max. Marks: 100
heat transfer to each plate and to the room. Consider only the plate surfaces facing each
other.
PART-A(20x1=20Marks)
(oR) Answer ALL Questions
b- Emissivities of two large parallel plates maintained at temperature of 800oC and 300'C are 1. Heat is mainly transferred by conduction, convection and radiation in
0.3 and 0.5 respectively. Find (A) Insulated pipes carrying hot water (B) Refrigerator freezer coil
(i) Net radiant heat exchange per square meter of these plates (C) Boiler furnace (D) Condensation of steam in a condenser
(ii) Find the percentage of reduction in heat transfer when a polished aluminium shield
of emissitvity of 0.05 is placed between them 2. Upto critical radius of insulation
(iii) Temperature of the shield. (A) Added insulation will increase heat (B) Added insulation will decrease heat loss
loss
3 1. a. Discuss in detail the various regimes of pool boiling heat transfer. (C) Convection heat loss will be less (D) Heat flux will decrease
than conduction heat loss
(oR) 3. The SI unit of thermal conductivity is
b. 4 counter flow heat exchanger employed to cool 0.55 kgls (, o :2.45 kI t tcg X) of oil from (A) WmK (B) wK
(c) Kiw (D) Wim
115"C to 40'C by circulating water. The inlet and outlet temperature of water and 15"C and
75oC. The overall heat transfer coefficient is 1450 Wm2K, using NTU method, determine 4. An increase in convective coefficient over a fin will
(i) Mass flow rate of water (A) Result in higher effectiveness (B) Result in lower effectiveness
(ii) Effectiveness of heat exchanger (C) Not affect effectiveness (D) Influence only the fin efficiency
(iii) Surface area
5. number is generally associated with natural convection heat transfer.
32.a.i. Explain the various mechanisms of mass transfer. (A) Prandtl (B) Weber
(C) Nusselt (D) Grashoff
ii. State Fick's law of difflrsion. What are its limitations?
6. The prandtl number if liquid metals are usually
(oR) (A) Less than 0.5 (B) Greater than 0.5
b. Water in the tark2D mm deep is filled with water to 10 mm level and exposed to dry air at (C) Near about 1 (D) Decreasing with temperature
40o C. calculate the time required for all the water to evaporate. What is the time required for
evaporation if the air temperature is 80'C? Take diameter of tank as 2 meter. Take D (water 7. The velocity profile for fully developed laminar flow in a tube is
to air'10.0925m2 I hr. (A) Linear (B) Exponential
(C) Hyperbolic (D) Parabolic
{.*:F**
8. Heat transfer rate will
(A) Be higher in turbulent flow (B) Be lower in turbulent flow
(C) Depend only on the fluid (D) Depend only on fluid viscosity

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 9. Emissivrff of a white polished body in comparison to a black body is
(B) Lower 20. Fict's law of diffirsionMa:
(A) Higher (A) (B)
(C) Same (D) Depends upon the shape of the body -Dob,.dco Dob.dCo
dx dx
(C) -Dab.dCo (D) Dab.dx
10. A grey body is one whose absorptivity
(A) Varies with temPerature (B) Varies with the wavelength of incident ray
(C) Varies with both (D) Does not vary with temPerature and
wavelength is the incident raY
PART-B(5x4=20Marks)
11. For a glass plate, transmissivity and reflectivity are specified as 0.86
and 0.08 respectively. Answer AI{Y FM Questions
The absorptivity of the glass plate is
(A) 0.86 (B) 0.08 21. Derive an expression for critical radius of insulation.
(c)1.0 (D) 0.06
: 22. A solid steel ball 50 mm diameter is initially at 450"C is quenched in a controlled
t2. If two surfaces are maintained at a temperature of 400 K and 300 K (emissivity 0.9
), the environment with convective coefficient of 115 Wm2K. Determine the time taken to reach a
radiative heat transfer per unit area will be Wm2, o =5.67x10-8 W I m2Ka . temperature of 150"C atthe centre of the ball. Take Cp=420J I kgK, density:8000 kdm'
(A) eez (B) 8r2 and thermal conductivitY:46 WmK.
(c) 464 (D) s67
23. Give the physical significance of Reynolds number and Grashoff number'
13. In heat exchanger the value of logarithmic
- mean temperature difference should be
24. A steam pipe of 0.1 m diameter runs horizontally in a room at23oC. Take the outside surface
(A) Mr-t*r- possible (B) Minimum Possible temperaturl of the pipe as 165
oC, determine the heat loss per meter lenglh of the pipe.

(C) Zero (D) Constant

25. Explain intensity of radiation and Wein's displacement law'
14. In shell and tube heat exchanger, baffles are mainly used to
(A) Increase the mixing of fluid (B) Increase the heat transfer rate 26. 1000 kg/hr of oil (rr=2.0g tcl I kg"C)is to be cooled from 80oC to 40"C flow of 1000
iCi Deflect the flow in the desired (D) Reduce fouling of the tube surface kg/h at 30"c. if the heat transfer coefficient is 24 w/m2oc, find the type of flow and area of
direction
15. The excess temperature in free convection boiling is heat exchanger.
(A) 5"C (B) 1Ooc
(c) 3ooc (D) 5o'c 27. Explain mass concentration and molar concentration'

16. In nucleate pool boiling the heat flux is proportional to the excess temperature as
PART-C(5x12=60Marks)
(B) arl.o Answer ALL Questions
(A) ar3.o
(C) (D)
composite slab is made of three layers 15 cm, 10 cm and 12 cm thickness. The first
LT2l LTo.s layer
2g. a. A
is made of material with R =1.45 W I mK for 600/o of the area and rest of the material
with
17. The unit of diffusion coefficient or diffusivity is
R=2.5 W I mK. The second layer is made up of material with ,R =1.25 W I mK for 50% of
mass
(A) *2 (B) kg*2
area and rest of the material with R = 18.5 W I mK. The third layer is made of single
material

of R = 0.76W I mK. The composite slab is exposed to warm air to 26"C and cold air at
,s s
(C) (D) kss
-20"C. The inside heat transfer coefficient is 15 Wm2K.
,2 The outside heat transfer
2
m temperature.
m coefficient is 20 Wm2K. Determine heat flow rate and interface

18. Mass transfer in fluid takes place when there exist a (oR)
(A) Pressure gradient (B) Temperaturegradient b. A cylinder of 50 mm diameter and one meter long provided with 12 longitudinal straight frns
(C) Velocity gradient (D) Concentration gradient protrude
(k =75.6W I mK) is placed in atmosphere at 40"C. the fins are 0.8 mm thick and
the hns
25 mm from the cylinder surface. The heat transfer coefficient from the cylinder and
19. Sherwood number is a function of
to the atmosphere air is 23.25 Wm2K. The surface temperature is 150oC, calculate the
rate
(A) Re, Sc (B) Re,Pr
(C) Re, Gr (D) Re, Ga of heat transfer and the temperature at the tip of the fin'

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