PROBLEM987 KNOWN: A bank of drying ovens is mounted on a rack in a room with an ambient temperature of 27°C; the cubical ovens are 500 mm toa side and the spacing between the ovens is 15 mm. FIND: (a) Estimate the heat loss from the facing side of an oven when its surface temperature is 47°C, and (b) Explore the effect of the spacing dimension on the heat loss. At what spacing is the heat loss. maximum? Describe the boundary layer behavior for this condition. Can this condition be analyzed by treating the oven side-surface as an isolated vertical plate? SCHEMATIC: =47e0 F pyying oven i Too = 27°C Spacing 3) je— S= 15mm ASSUMPTIONS: (1) Steady-state conditions, (2) Adjacent oven sides form a vertical channel with symmetrically heated plates, (3) Room air is quiescent, and channel sides are open to the room air, and @ Constant properties PROPERTIES: Table 4-4, Air (Te=(T, + T)/2= 310K, latm) y=1.69 x 10° m/s, ¢=0.0270 Wim, a= 2.40 x 10° m°/s, Pr=0.706, B= 1/Te ANALYSIS: (a) For the isothermal plate channel, Eq, 9.45 with Eqs 9.37 and 9 38, allow for calculation ofthe heat transfer froma plate to the amblent air 2 @ Q @ where, from Table 9.3, for the symmetrical tsothermal plates, Cy = 576 and C2 = 2.87. Properties are evaluated at the film temperature Te. Substituting numerical values, evaluate the correlation parameters and the heat rate Ree 28m? (1/310 K)(47-27)K (00015 m Ss 7 2.40%10 m? /s%1.69x10 12 i, 516 287 = 1004 [.62670.015 m/0.50 m)" (5267 «0.015 m/0.050 m} 1(0.500.50 1.994 -2/(050%050)m" _O.015m__ q-180W < @7-1)K 000 Wink Continued fccerts tom ths wok may be reproduced by nstctrs fr distrbuton on not for-profit bass for testing or mstrucional pxposes onto sues axolied | courses for which the eboak hasbeen adapted. ther reprociton or nleion of ths work yond termite Section 107 106 ofthe 1976 rate Ses Cops Act witout the permission a he coprigh owner is whPROBLEM 987 (Cont) (b) Using the foregoing relations in JHT, the heat rate is calculated for a range of spacing S. 20 [ ——_-— 15 g 10 3 s 0 5 0 1S ‘Separation distance, S (mm) Note that the heat rate increases with increasing spacing up to about S=20 mm. This implies that for > 20 mm, the side wall of the oven behaves as an isolated vertical plate. From the treatment of the vertical channel, Section 9.7.1, the spacing to provide maximum heat rate froma plate occurs at Syuax ‘which, from Table 9.3, is evaluated by Snax =1.71 Sopt = 0.01964 m=19.6 mm 3 1/4 Sopt 71(Ras/8°L) =001147m For the condition $= Spa, the spacing is sufficient that the boundary layers on the plates do not overtap COMMENTS: Using the Churchill-Ciu correlation, Eq, 9.26, for the isolated vertical plate, where the characteristic dimension is the height L, find q= 20.2 W Ray = 1.951 x 10° and iy, = 4.03 W/m?-K). This value is slightly larger than that from the channel correlation when $ > Syuag, but a good approximation fccerts tom ths wok may be reproduced by nstctrs fr distrbuton on not for-profit bass for testing or mstrucional pxposes onto sues axolied | courses for which the eboak hasbeen adapted. ther reprociton or nleion of ths work yond termite Section 107 106 ofthe 1976 rate Ses Cops Act witout the permission a he coprigh owner is wh