AEE 331 Heat Transfer

Homework V, Due 11 December, Tuesday, 17:00

1. Before being injected into a furnace, pulvarized coal is preheated by passing it through a cylindrical tube
whose surface is maintained at T
sur
= 1000
o
C. The coal pellets are suspended in an airow through the tube and
are known to move with a speed of 3 m/s. If the pellets may be approximated as spheres of 1-mm diameter and
it may be assumed that they are heated by radiation transfer from the tube surface, how long must the tube
be to heat coal to 600
o
C from its enterance temperature of 25
o
C. Is the use of the lumped capacitance method
justied?
2. A long rod 40 mm in diameter, fabricated from sapphire (aluminum oxide) and initially at a uniform temper-
ature of 800 K, is suddenly cooled by a uid at 300 K having a heat transfer coecient of 1600 W/m
2
K. After
35 s, the rod is wrapped in insulation and experiences no heat losses. What will be the temperature of the rod
after a long period of time?