Assigment 2 – Heat Transfer

Academic year 2017/2018

(Please submit your work on March 21st, 2018)

1. A long pipe 5 cm in diameter passes through a room and is exposed to air at atmospheric
pressure and temperature of 20◦C. The pipe surface temperature is 93◦C. Assuming that the
emissivity of the pipe is 0.6, calculate the radiation heat loss per foot of length of pipe.
2. A 5-cm-diameter copper sphere is initially at a uniform temperature of 200◦C. It is suddenly
exposed to an environment at 20 oC having a heat-transfer coefficient h=28 W/m2.oC.
Calculate the time necessary for the sphere temperature to reach 90 oC. Is there any
temperature distribution within the sphere? Explain!
3. A stainless steel cylinder (18% Cr, 8% Ni) is heated to a uniform temperature of 200 oC and
then allowed to cool in an environment where the air temperature is maintained constant at
30 oC. The convection heat-transfer coefficient may be taken as 200 W/m2.oC. The cylinder
has a diameter of 10 cm
a. If the length of the cylinder is 15 cm. Calculate the temperature of the geometric center of
the cylinder after a time of 10 min. Also calculate the heat loss.
b. If the length is infinite, calculate the axis temperature of the cylinder after 10 min exposure.
Also calculate, at 10 min, the heat transfer rate from the surface.
4. Two parallel disks, 50 cm in diameter, are separated by a distance of 12.5 cm and enclosed
by a large room at 300 K. One disk is maintained at a constant temperature of 800◦C and has
an emissivity of 0.8. The other disk is perfectly insulated and has an emissivity of 0.1.
a. Calculate the net radiant energy lost by the disk maintained at 800◦C.
b. Calculate the net radiant energy lost by the disk maintained at 800◦C if we assume that
the surfaces are blackbodies.
5. A 5.0-cm-diameter long cylinder with T =800 K and emissivity of 0.7 is enclosed by a large
room at 300 K. How much will the radiant heat loss from the cylinder be decreased if it is
enclosed by a cylindrical radiation shield having d =10 cm and =0.2 on the inner and outer
surfaces? Express as W/m of length.
6. Two large parallel planes are at T1 =800 K, emissivity 1 =0.3, T2 =400 K, emissivity 2 =0.7
and are separated by a gray gas having emissivity of 0.2 and transmissivity of 0.8. Calculate
the heat-transfer rate between the two planes and the temperature of the gas using a radiation
network. Compare with the heat transfer without presence of the gas.