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Seat Number

*6597*

Heat Transfer

(Also Old Sem.- V Equivalence) (125101 / 215101)

P. Pages : 3
Time : Three Hours
Max. Marks : 80
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Instructions to Candidates :
1. Do not write anything on question paper except Seat No.
2. Graph or diagram should be drawn with the black ink pen being used for
writing paper or black HB pencil.
3. Students should note, no supplement will be provided.
4. Solve any two subquestions from each question.
5. Use of heat transfer data book is allowed in examination.
1.

a) i)
ii)

State and explain Fourier law of heat transfer.

Explain the effect of temperature on thermal conductivity.

b) A composite insulating wall has three layers of material held together by 3cm
diameter aluminium rivet per 0.1m2 of surface. The layers of material consists
of 10cm thick brick with hot surface at 200C, 1cm thick wood with cold
surface at 10C. These two layers are interposed by third layer of insulating
material 25cm thick. Take
w
w
w
K brick 0.93
, K wood 0.175
, K insulation 0.12
mk
mk
mk
w
K aluminium 204
mk
Calculate % increase in heat transfer due to rivet.

c)

A spherical thin walled metallic container is used to store liquid nitrogen at

77k. The container has a diameter of 0.5m and is covered with an evacuated
reflective insulation system composed of silica powder (k 0.0017 w / mk ) .
The insulation is 25mm thick & its outer surface is exposed to ambient air at
300k. The convective coefficient is known to be 20 w / m2k . The latent heat
of vaporization & density of liquid nitrogen are 2 105 J / kg and 804 kg / m3,
respectively.
1) What is heat transfer rate to liquid nitrogen.
2) What is the rate of liquid boil off in lit/day.

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2.

a) The temperature distribution in a 0.3m thick plane wall is

T( x) 600 2500x 12,000x where T is in C and x is in meters measured

from left surface of wall. The thermal conductivity of material is 23.5w/mk.
For steady state condition
a) Calculate surface temperatures and average temperature of wall.
b)

Calculate maximum temperature and its location.

c)

Calculate heat fluxes at its both surfaces.

b) i)

Explain Fin effectiveness. How the effectiveness of fin can be improved.

ii)

Define fin efficiency. Write equations for efficiency of infinite long fin and
insulated tip fin.

The temperature of hot gas flowing through a pipe is measured by mercury

thermometer inserted in an oil well made of steel (k 40 w / mk ) . The
thermometer reads the temperature at the end of well which is lower than
the gas temperature due to transfer of heat along the well. Calculate % error
in temperature measurement, if thermometer reads 150C. The temperature
of the pipe wall is 80C. The well is 10cm long, 2mm thick. Take

c)

h 40 w / m2k .
3.

a) Atmospheric air at 275k and with a speed of 20m/s flows over a 1.5m long
flat plate maintained at a uniform temperature of 325k. Calculate:
a) Average heat transfer coefficient over the region of laminar boundary
layer.
b)

Average heat transfer coefficient over the entire length.

c)

Total heat transfer rate from plate over 1.5m length & 1m wide.

Assume transition occurs at Recr 2 105

1

for laminar flow: Nu 0.664 Re 2 Pr 3

for turbulent flow : Nu 0.037 Re0.8 871 Pr 3

b) A vertical plate 15cm high and 10cm wide is maintained at 140C. Calculate
the maximum heat dissipation rate from both sides of plate in an ambient air

at 20C. The radiation heat transfer coefficient is 9.0 w / m2 k. For air at

80C, take 21.09 106 m2 / s, Pr 0.692 and k 0.03 w / mk .
c)

Define condensation. Explain Filmwise and dropwise condensation.

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4.

a) Calculate the following quantities for an industrial furnace (blackbody)

emitting radiation at 2650C.
i)

Spectral emissive power at 1.2 m

ii)

Wavelength at which emissive power is maximum.

iii)

Maximum spectral emissive power.

iv) Total emissive power.

v)

b) i)

ii)
c)

5.

Total emissive power of furnace, if it is treated as gray and diffuse body

with emissivity of 0.9
Define :

a) Transmissivity

b)

Radiosity

b) View factor

d)

Reflectivity

Explain the properties of the blackbody.

Two large parallel plates at temperature 1000k and 600k have emissivity of
0.5 & 0.8 respectively. A radiation shield having emissivity 0.1 on one side
and 0.05 on the other side and is placed between the plates. Calculate the
heat transfer rate by radiation per square meter with and without radiation
shield. Also calculate % reduction in heat transfer rate due to shield.

a) Derive the equation for LMTD for counter flow heat exchanger.

b) An oil is cooled to 100C in a concurrent heat exchanger by transferring its

heat to cooling water, that leaves the exchanger at 30C. However, it is now
required that the oil must be cooled down to 75C by increasing the length
of the heat exchanger, while oil & water flow rates their inlet temperatures
and other dimensions of the exchanger keeping constant. The inlet
temperatures of water and oil being 15C and 150C, respectively.
If the original coolar was 1m long, calculate

c)

i)

Outlet temperature of water in new coolar.

ii)

Length of new coolar.

Explain the construction and working of operation of heat pipe.

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