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Heat and Mass Transfer
Heat and Mass Transfer
A TECHNICAL CAMPUS
Faculty of Engineering Technology
S.C BLOCK ,Gzb (U.P )
Question bank
Heat and Mass Transfer (HMT) EME-504
UNIT – I
Q-1 What is Fourier's Law of heat conduction and in detail?
Q-4 Derive the expression for heat conduction through hollow and composite
walls.
Q-5 The composite wall of furnace is made up with 120mm fire clay
[k=0.25(1+0.0009t) w/m°C] and 600mm of red brick (k=0.8w/m°C).the inside
surface temperature is 1250°C and the outside temperature is 40°C.determine:
(i) The temperature at the layer interface and .
Q-8 A reactor wall ,320mm thick ,is made up of an inner layer of fire brick
(k=0.84w/m°C) covered with a layer of insulation (k=0.16w/m°C).the reactor
operate at a temperature of 1325°C and the ambient temperature is 25°C.
(i) Determine the thickness of fire brick and insulation which gives minimum
heat loss.
(ii) calculate the heat loss pressuring that the insulating materials has a
maximum temperature of 1200°C.
Q-9. A furnace wall consists of three layers. The inner layer of 10 cm thickness
is made of firebrick =1.04 W/mK). The intermediate layer of 25 cm thickness is
made of masonry (k brick (k = 0.69 W/mK) followed by a 5 cm thick concrete
wall (k = 1.37 W/mK). When the furnace is in continuous operation the inner
surface of the furnace is at 800°C while the outer concrete surface is at 50°C.
Calculate the rate of heat loss per unit area of the wall, the temperature at the
interface of the firebrick and masonry brick and the temperature at the interface
of the masonry brick and concrete.
Q-11. Explain the different modes of heat transfer with appropriate expressions.
Q-13 Derive the expression for heat conduction through hollow and composite
cylinders.
Q-14 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 the other. Determine the percentage decrease in heat
transfer if better insulating material is next to pipe than it is the outer layer.
Assume that the outside and inside temperatures of composite insulation are
fixed.
Q-15 Explain briefly the concept of critical thickness of insulation and state
any two applications of the same.
Q-16 Derive the expression for heat conduction through hollow and composite
spheres.
Q-25 What is thermal contact resistance and explain in details with the help of
diagram.
Unit-02
Q-1. Derive the governing differential equation for the one dimensional heat
flow in fins.
Q-2 Derive an expression for the temperature distribution and heat transfer rate
for a rectangular fin in case of infinitely long fin.
Q-3. A long rod is exposed to air at 298°C. It is heated at one end. At steady
state conditions, the temperature at two points along the rod separated by 120
mm is found to be 130°C and 110°C respectively. The diameter of the rod is 25
mm ID and its thermal conductivity is 116 W/m°C. Calculate the heat transfer
coefficient at the surface of the rod and also the heat transfer rate.
Q-5 Derive an expression for the temperature distribution and heat transfer rate
for a rectangular fin with tip of a fin.
Q-6 A large iron plate of 10 cm thickness and originally at 800°C is suddenly
exposed to an environment at O°C where the convection coefficient is 50 W/m2
K. Calculate the temperature at a depth of 4 cm from one of the faces 100
seconds after the plate is exposed to the
environment. How much energy has been lost per unit area of the plate during
this time?
Q-9 Define the Biot and Fourier numbers and explain in details.
Q-10 What is meant lumped capacity? What are the physical assumptions
necessary for a lumped capacity unsteady state analysis to apply?
Q-11.Two longs rod of the same diameter, one made of brass (k=85w/m0C )
and other made of copper (k=375w/m0C) haves one of their ends inserted into
the furnace .Both of the rods are exposed to the same environment. at a distance
105mm away from the furnace end ,the temperature of the brass rod is 120 0C.at
what distance from the furnace ends the same temperature would be reached in
copper rod?
Q-12. What is Newtonian heating or cooling process?
Q-13 Give examples for Transient heat transfer and explain in details one of
them.
Q-18. Define efficiency of the fin and derive the formulae in all the case of fin.
Q-20. Define effectiveness of the fin and derive the formulae in all the case of
fin.
Unit -03
Q-1. What is Convective heat transfer and define the natural and forced
convection.
Q-2 Sketch formation of boundary layer and show laminar, transition &
turbulent flow.
Q-3 Derive an expression for heat transfer coefficient for laminar flow inside a
tube, given that its wall temperature is constant throughout.
Q-4 What is boundary layer thickness? What is laminar sub layer? what is
heated while flowing through a 1.5cm x3.5cm rectangular cross section fiber at
a velocity of 1.2 m/s. entering temperature of water is 40 0C and the tube wall
is maintained at 85 0C .determine the length of tube required to rise the
temperature to 70 C 0
.properties of water at 55 0C are: Ρ=985.5kg/m3,
cp=4.18 kj/kgk ,v=0.517x10-6 m2/s k=0.654 w/mk and pr=3.26 use the
0.8 0.4
equation NUd=0.0023Re .pr .
Q-5. Write down differential equation for Continuity of fluid flow.
Q-6. (i)State Newton's law of cooling.
(ii) Differentiate between Natural & Forced convection.
Q-9.Air at 2 bar and 400C is heated as it flows through tube of diameter 30mm
at a velocity of 10m/s .calculate the heat transfer per unit length of tube when
wall temperature is maintained at 1000C all along length of tube. How much
would be the bulk temperature increase over 1m length of tube? Use the
following relation:
µ=20.6x10-6 N-s/m2 , pr= 0.694 ,cp =1.009kj/kg 0C, k=0.0297 kg/m 0C.
Q-10. What is Reynold's analogy? Describe the relation between fluid friction
and heat transfer?
Q-16. Air at 200 kPa and 200°C is heated as it flows through a tube with a
diameter of 25 mm at a velocity of 10 m./sec. The wall temperature is
maintained constant and is 20°C above the air temperature all along the length
of tube. Calculate:
(i) The rate of heat transfer per unit length of the tube. (ii) Increase in the bulk
temperature of air over a 3 m length of the tube.
Q-17. Write down the momentum equation for a steady, two dimensional flow
of an incompressible, constant property newtonian fluid in the rectangular
coordinate system and mention the physical significance of each term.
Q-19. Air at 400 K and 1 atm pressure flows at a speed of 1.5 m/s over a flat
plate of 2 m long. The plate is maintained at a uniform temperature of 300 K. If
the plate has a width of 0.5 m, estimate the heat transfer coefficient and the rate
of heat transfer from the air stream to the plate. Also estimate the drag force
acting on the plate.
Q-23 Atmospheric air at 275 K and a free stream velocity of 20 m/s flows over
a flat plate 1.5 m long that is maintained at a uniform temperature of 325 K.
Calculate the average heat transfer coefficient over the region where the
boundary layer is laminar, the average heat transfer coefficient over the entire
length of the plate and the total heat transfer rate from the plate to the air over
the length 1.5 m and width 1 m. Assume transition occurs at Re= 2xl05.
Q-24 A large vertical plate 5 m high is maintained at 100°C and exposed to air
at 30°C Calculate the convection heat transfer coefficient.
Q-25. Explain for fluid flow along a flat plate: (1) Velocity distribution in
hydrodynamic boundary layer. (2) Temperature distribution in thermal
boundary layer. (3) Variation of local heat transfer co-efficient along the flow.
Unit-04
I. Gray body
II. Intensity of radiation
III. Radiation shape factor
Q-2.Determine the radiant heat exchanger in W/m2 between two large parallel
steel plate of emissivities 0.8 and 0.5 held at a temperature of 1000k and 500k
respectively ,if a thin copper plate of emissivity 0.1 is introduced as a radiation
shield between two plates. Use σ =5.67x10-8 W/m2 k4
Q-3.Two concentric spheres 210mm and 300mm diameters with the space
between them evacuated are to be used to store liquid air(-1530C) in a room at
270C .the surfaces of the spheres are flushed with aluminium (ε =0.03) and
latent heat of
Q-4. A thin aluminium sheet with an emissivity of 0.1 on both sides is placed
between two very large parallel plate that are maintained at uniform temperature
T1=800k and t2= 500k and have emissivity 0.2 and 0.7 respectively. Determine
the rate of radiation heat transfer between the two plates per unit surface area of
the plates and compare the result to that without the shield.
Q-7. What is the equation for radiation between two gray bodies?
Q-11. Write down the heat transfer equation for Radiant exchange between
infinite
Q-12.(i) Discuss how the radiation from gases differ from that of solids.
Q-13. Two very large parallel plates with emissivities 0.5 exchange heat.
Determine the percentage reduction in the heat transfer rate if a polished
aluminium radiation shield of c = 0.04 is placed in between the plates.
Q-15. (i) What are the radiation view factors and why they are used?
Q-22 (i) What is Stefan's Bolts Mann law? .(ii) What is Intensity of radiation?
Q-25. Two large parallel planes with emissivities 0.35 and 0.85 exchange heat
by radiation. The planes are respectively 1073K and 773K . A radiation shield
having the emissivity of 0.04 is placed between them. Find the percentage
reduction in radiation heat exchange and temperature of the shield.
Unit-05
Q-2 (i) Sketch temperature distribution graph for condensers & evaporators.
(ii) What is overall heat transfer coefficient in a heat exchanger?
Q-7 Water enters a cross flow Heat exchanger (both fluids unmixed) at 5°C and
flows at the rate of 4600 kg/h to cool 4000 kg/h of air that is initially at 40°C.
Assume the overall heat transfer coefficient value to be 150 W/m2 K For
exchanger surface area of 25m2 Calculate the exit temperature of air and water.
Q-8 Describe the principle of parallel flow and counter flow heat exchangers
showing the axial temperature distribution.
Q-9 A parallel flow heat exchanger has hot and cold water stream running
through it, the flow rates are 10 and 25 kg/min respectively. Inlet temperatures
are 75° C and 25° C on hot and cold sides. The exit temperature on the hot side
should not exceed 50° C. Assume hi = h =600W/m2 K. Calculate the area of
heat exchanger using E -NTU approach.
Q-11 Hot exhaust gases which enters a finned tube cross flow heat exchanger at
300°C and leave at 100°c, are used to heat pressurized water at a flow rate of 1
kg/s from 35 to 125°C. The exhaust gas specific heat is approximately 1000
J/kg.K, and the overall heat transfer co-efficient based on the gas side surface
area is U = 100W/m2 K. Determine the required gas side surface area Ah using
the NTU method.
Take Cp,c at Tc = 80°C is 4197 J/kg.K and Cp,h = 1000 J/kg.K .
Q-12 With a neat and labeled sketch explain the various regimes in boiling heat
transfer.
Q-15. Dry saturated steam at a pressure of 2.45 bar condenses on the surface of
a vertical tube of height 1 m. The tube surface temperature is kept at 117°C.
Estimate the thickness of the condensate film and the local heat transfer
coefficient at a distance of 0.2m from the upper end of the tube.
Q-16 Discuss the general arrangement of parallel flow, counter flow and cross
flow heat exchangers.
Q-17. In a Double pipe counter flow heat exchanger 10000 kg/h of an oil
having a specific heat of 2095 J/kgK is cooled from 80°C to 50°C by 8000 kg/h
of water entering at 25°C. Determine the heat exchanger area for an overall heat
transfer coefficient of 300 W/m2 K. Take Cp for water as 4180 J/kgK
Q-21. It is desired to use a double pipe counter flow heat exchanger to cool 3
kg/s of oil (C = 2.1 kJ/kgK) from 120°C. Cooling water at 20°C enters the heat
exchanger at a rate of 10 kg/s. The overall heat transfer coefficient of the heat
exchanger is 600 W/m2 K and the heat transfer area is 6 m2 • Calculate the exit
temperatures of oil and water.
Q-22. Steam condenses at atmospheric pressure on the external surface of the
tubes of a steam condenser. The tubes are 12 in number and each is 30 mm in
diameter and 10 m long. The inlet and outlet temperatures of cooling water
flowing inside the tubes are 25°C and 60°C respectively. If the flow rate is 1.1
kg/s, calculate
(i) The rate of condensation of steam
(ii) The number of transfer units
(iii)The effectiveness of the condenser.