QUIZ – PRELIM PERIOD

HEAT TRANSFER (ME 403)

𝟐𝐍𝐃 SEMESTER A.Y. 2019-2020

Name: Score:
Section: ME41FA1 Date: Dec. 18, 2019

Instructions: Show your solutions COMPLETELY and CLEARLY in separate sheet of short
bond paper. BOX your final answer. UNBOXED answer is not considered as your final
answer.

1. One side of a refrigerated cold chamber is 5 m long by 3.5 m high and consists of
168 mm thickness of cork between outer and inner walls of wood. The outer wood
wall is 40 mm thick and its outside face temperature is 82.4°F, the inner wood wall
is 45 mm thick and its inside face temperature is 21.2°F. Taking the coefficient of
thermal conductivity of cork and wood as 0.042 and 0.20 W/m-K respectively,
calculate the:
a. heat transfer in BTU/hr.
b. hot surface temperature of the cork in °C.

2. The wall of a cold room consist of a layer of cork sandwiched between outer and
inner walls of wood, the wood walls being each 33 mm thick. The inside atmosphere
of the room is maintained at -22°C when the external atmospheric temperature is
22°C, and the heat loss through the wall is 44 W/m2 . Taking the thermal
conductivity of wood and cork as 0.2 W/m-K and 0.2 BTU/hr-m-K respectively, and
the rate of heat transfer between each exposed wood surface and their respective
atmospheres as 0.2 kCal/min-m2 -K, calculate the:
a. thickness of the cork in mm.
b. cold surface temperature of the cork in °C.