ar UNIVERSITY OF ADEN FACULTY OF ENGINEERING Mechanical Engincering Department Even Semester Re:*-Examination 2017/2018 Date? 9 2018 Time: 2hours ~Answer any four questions out of the six. ‘Show clearly your solutions 3. After solving a question and cancelled it for any reason write on it cancel. Q.1(a) State Yes or No for the following statements:. +5) Convection and radiation modes of heat transfer are linear with temperature, ¢V © ii-) Conduction mode of heat transfer always decreases by increasing the thickness of wall for plane wall. Yes iii-) To calculate heat for composite cylindrical wall the outer area is taken because it is easy to be measured iv-) At critical radius the slope of heat transfer with radius of insulation is maximum. v-) All three modes of heat transfer can transfer through the any medium. }) Determine the thermal conductance an thermal resistance for a plane wall (k= 6 W/mK ) whose its thickness is 35 cm and the convective heat transfer coefficients on both sides of the plane are 7Wim'K and 15W/m’K respectively. Q. 2 (a) Calculate the heat loss per 10 m? area, for a plane wall made of the following layers ordered from outside to inside: ~ Conerete layer, thickness 0.15 m and k= 1.4 W/mK. ~ Red brick layer, thickness 0.30 mand k=0.1 W/mK. — Plaster layer, thickness 0.04 m and k = 0.8 W/mK. If the inside and outside convective heat transfer coefficients are 5 W/mK and 12 W/m’K respectively. The inside and outside temperatures are 22 'C and 38 °C respectively. Fid the temperature between all the three solid layers? Q.3 a) A composite cylindrical wall made of steel pipe ( k= 45 W/mK) and inside and outside radii are 10 cm and 12 cm respectively. If it is covered with a layer of insulation of thickness 10 mm and has a conductivity of 0.05 W/mK and there is a hot fluid (T = 70°C) is running in the pipe and the ambient temperature is 30 °C. Take the inside and outside film coefficients as 30 W/m?K and 8W/m’K=k respectively. Calculate the rate of heat loss from the hot fluid to atmosphere? b) What is mean by overall heat transfer coefficient? Q.4 a) What is the critical radius in heat transfer? ) A copper wire of 6 mm diameter is in insulated with a rubber to an outer dia. Of 0.6cm (k=0.45 W/mk) is laid in a hot atmosphere at 42 C. The outside heat transfer coefficient was 14W/m°K. If an electrical current passing through the wire raising its temperature to 65 C, Find the rate of heat transfer at the given insulation radius, What will be the maximum heat transfer from hot wire to atmosphere? bay 19.288Q.5. A rectangular fin of 5 mm thick, 18 cm wide and 30 cm long is attached to a hot plate of temperature 70 ‘C. If the conductivity of the fin material is 55 W/mK and the convective heat transfer coefficient 20W/m’K. For an ambient temperature 35 °C Calculate: i-) Total heat loss from the fin surface. ii-) Temperature at the end of the fin. ifi-) Temperature at the middle of the fin. And iv-) Fin efficiency. Assume the fin is insulated at the end. Q.6. A temperature distribution through a wall of thickness 35 cm and heated from one side for a certain time is given by: t= 50- 40x + 35x? 20x? + 10x* .where x is meter and t in ‘C. If the area is 12 m?, calculate: i-) the heat entering and leaving the wall per unit time. i-) The heat stored in the wall per unit time. iii-) The rate of temperature change with time at x = 0 and at x = 0.30 m. iv-) Where is the location of maximum heating (or cooling). (Take k = 10 W/mK, and a = 0.04).