BANGALORE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

K.R.Road, V.V. Pura, Bangalore

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
VI Semester B.E. in Mechanical Engineering
Subject with code : Heat Transfer (17ME63)
Date : 21/03/2020 Date of submission: 15/04/2020
Assignment 1
Instruction: Answer all the questions.
Note: All the Questions in the assignment are related to CO1

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1 If 3 kW is conducted through a section of insulating material 0.8 m2 in cross section and 2.5 cm thick and thermal 3
conductivity may be taken as 0.2 W/moC, compute the temperature difference across the material.
2 Some people might recall being told to be sure to put on a hat when outside in cold weather because "you lose all the heat 4
out of the top of the head". Comment on the validity of this statement.
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One side of a plane wall is maintained at 100 C, while the other side is exposed to convection environment having T=10 C
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and h= 10 W/m C. The wall has k=1.6 W/m C and is 40 cm thick. Calculate heat transer through the wall.
4 A man informs an engineer that he frequently feels cooler in the summer when standing in front of an open refrigerator. 4
The engineer tells the man that he is only "imagining things" because there is no fan in the refrigerator to blow the cool air
over him. A lively argument ensues. Whose side of the argument do you take? Why?
5 One side of a copper block 5 cm thick is maintained at 250◦C. The other side is covered with a layer of fiberglass 2.5 cm 3
thick. The outside of the fiberglass is maintained at 35◦C, and the total heat flow through the copper-fiberglass combination
is 52 kW. What is the area of the slab?
6 A 1.0-mm-diameter wire is maintained at a temperature of 400◦C and exposed to a convection environment at 40◦C with h 4
= 120 W/m2 ◦C. Calculate the thermal conductivity that will just cause an insulation thickness of 0.2 mm to produce a
“critical radius.” How much of this insulation must be added to reduce the heat transfer by 75 percent from that which
would be experienced by the bare wire?
7 A spherical tank, 1 m in diameter, is maintained at a temperature of 120◦C and exposed to a convection environment. With 4
h = 25 W/m2 ◦C and T∞ = 15◦C, what thickness of urethane foam should be added to ensure that the outer temperature of
the insulation does not exceed 40◦C? What percentage reduction in heat loss results from installing this insulation?

8 A plane wall is constructed of a material having a thermal conductivity that varies as the square of the temperature 3
according to the relation k = k0(1 + βT 2). Derive an expression for the heat transfer in such a wall.

9 Derive a relation for the critical radius of insulation for a sphere 3

10 A thin rod of length L has its two ends connected to two walls which are maintained at temperatures T 1 and T2, 3
respectively. The rod loses heat to the environment at T∞ by convection. Derive an expression (a) for the temperature
distribution in the rod and (b) for the total heat lost by the rod

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