1. Two parallel flat plates are spaced 2 inches apart.

Plate 1 is moving at a
velocity 600 ft/h and the other is moving in the opposite direction at 2100
ft/h. The viscosity of the fluid between the plates is constant at 368 lb/ft-h.
Calculate the stress on each plate. Calculate the fluid velocity at a in
from plate 1.

2. A steel pipe of outside diameter 0.031 m is insulated with a 0.0064 m

thickness of asbestos followed by a 0.0254 m layer of fiber glass. If the
outside pipe wall is 315.6 Celsius and the outside of the insulation is 37.8
Celsius, what is the temperature between the asbestos and fiber glass?
The thermal conductivities of asbestos and fiber glass are 0.166 and
0.0485 W/m-Celsius respectively.

3. A long solid copper cylinder is initially heated to a uniform temperature of

205 Celsius. Then, it is plunged into a large bath held at 50 Celsius, where
h=500 W/m^2-K. The cylinder has a diameter of 50.8 mm and the physical
properties of copper are density=8954 kg/m^3, k=377 W/m-K and
Cp=0.383 kJ/kg-K. Assuming constant driving force, calculate the center
temperature after 60 seconds.

4. Oil enters a 1.25 cm diameter, 3m long tube at 38 Celsius. The tube wall
is maintained at 68 Celsius and the flow velocity is 0.3 m/s. If the oil leaves
at 55 Celsius, what is the heat transfer coefficient and the total heat
transfer to the oil? The properties of oil are as follows.

Temperature Density Viscosity Cp k

40 867.05 0.40 1964 0.144
60 864.04 0.0735 2047 0.140
80 852.02 0.0320 2151 0.138

5. A circular ice rink is enclosed by a hemispherical dome. The ice and the
dome are at 0 Celsius and 15 Celsius respectively. The rink diameter is 25
m. What is the net radiative heat transfer? The rink has an emissivity of
0.80.
6. Water at 98 Celsius flows through a steel pipe (ID=0.05m, OD=0.06m) at
a velocity of 0.25 m/s. The horizontal pipe is in contact with atmospheric air
at 20 Celsius, the water and air heat transfer coefficient is 1900 and 7.9
W/m^2-K. What is the overall heat transfer coefficient for the system based
on the pipes outside surface area and the heat transfer rate? k for steel is
45 W/m-K.

7. An open cylindrical tank is filled to within 2 ft of the top with pure

methanol. The air within the tank is stationary, but circulation of air
immediately above the tank is adequate to assure negligible concentration
of methanol at this point. The tank and air space are at 77 Fahrenheit and 1
atm. Calculate the rate of loss of methanol (kg/s) from the tank at steady
state. The vapor pressure of methanol above the liquid surface can be
taken from the table of vapour pressures for organic and inorganic liquids
(Perrys).

8. Hydrogen diffuses through a non-porous polyvinyltrimethylsilane

membrane at 25 Celsius. The pressures on the sides of the membrane are
3.5 MPa and 200 kPa. Diffusivity and solubility data are 160x10^-11 m^2/s
and 0.34x10^-4 mol/m^2-Pa respectively. If the hydrogen flux is to 0.64
kmol/m^2-h, how thick should the membrane be?

9. A flat slab of douglas firewood 50.8 mm thick containing 30% wt moisture

is being dried from both sides (neglecting sides and edges). The
equilibrium moisture content at the surface of the wood due to the drying air
blown over it is held at 5% wt moisture. The drying can be assumed to be
represented by a diffusivity of 1.72x10^-6 m^2/h. Calculate the time for the
center to reach 10% wt moisture.

10. Sulfur dioxide is absorbed from air into water in a packed absorption
tower. At a certain location in the tower, the mass flux is 0.027 kmol/h-m^2
and the liquid phase mole fractions are 0.0025 and 0.0003, respectively, at
the two phase interface and in the bulk liquid. The diffusivity of SO2 in
water is 1.7x10^-5 cm^2/s and the total concentration of the solution is
5.55x10^-2 mol/cm^3. Using the film theory, determine the mass transfer
coefficient, kc and the film thickness, neglecting bulk flow effect.

11. Carbon dioxide is absorbed from air in a wetted-wall column (liquid is

H20). The gas stream moves at a velocity of 1 m/s in a 0.05 m diameter
column. Temperature and pressure for the system are 25 Celsius and 1
atm respectively. At a certain location in the column, the carbon dioxide
mole fraction in the gas (bulk phase) is 0.1 The carbon dioxide has a mole
fraction of 0.005 in the water. The Henrys Law constant for the system
C02-H20 is 1.6 x 10^8 N/m^2-mol frac CO2. The diffusivity of CO2 in the
gas is 1.64x10^-5 m^2/s. Calculate the mass transfer rate of CO2.

12. In an experimental study of the absorption of ammonia by water in a

wetted-wall column, the over-all mass transfer coefficient Kg=2.74x10^-9
kgmol/m^2-s-Pa. At one point in the column, the gas phase contained 8 mol
% ammonia and the liquid phase concentration was 0.064 kmol
ammonia/m^3 of solution. The tower operates at 293 K and 1.0315x10^5
Pa. At that temperature, the Henrys Law Constant H=1.358x10^3
Pa/kmol/m^3). If 75% of the total resistance to mass transfer is
encountered in the gas phase, determine the interphase concentrations
and the mass transfer flux.