NARJES WALEED HAMEED

THIRD STAGE

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Thermodynamics

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Q9/You are asked to design a heating system for a swimming pool that is
2 m deep, 25 m long, and 25 m wide.Your client desires that the heating
system be large enough to raise the water temperature from 20 to 30 0 C
in 3 h. The rate of heat loss from the water to the air at the outdoor design
conditions is determined to be 960 W/m 2 , and the heater must also be
able to maintain the pool at 30 0 C at those conditions.Heat losses to the
ground are expected to be small and can be disregarded. The heater
considered is a natural gas furnace whose efficiency is 80 percent. What
heater size (in kW input) would you recommend to your client?

we will need a great deal of power to raise the temperature of

that much water by 10°C in 3 hours. First let's see how much
water we have in the pool.Its surface area is 25 by 25 meters,
or 625 sq. m. If it's 2 meters deep, the volume of water it
contains is 1250 cu. m. or 1,250,000 liters.That much water has
a mass of 1,250,000,000 or 1.25 * 10**9 grams and the heat
capacity of water is 1 calorie, or 4.184 joules per gram per
degree C.So it will require 1.25 * 10**9 grams times 10 degrees
times 4.184 J/gram/degree or 5.23 * 10**10 joules of energy to
raise the temperature of all that water by 10°C. One watt is 1
joule per second, so if we do it in 3 hours or 10,800 seconds, we
need (5.23 * 10**10 J) / (1.08 * 10**4 sec) or 4.842 * 10**6 watts
to heat the water and if heat loss is 960 watts per sq. m. we
have total heat loss of 960 times 625,or 600,000 (6.0 * 10**5)
watts, which we must add to the total power required.So we
need a total of 5.442 megawatts of power to heat the water.If

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the heater is 80 percent efficient, we require an input of (5.442 *
10**6) / 0.8 or 6.8 megawatts (that is a lot of power!

solution

∆Q=∆U

Pfurn∆t-QlossApool∆t=mwatercv∆T

Pfurn∆t-QlossApool∆t= ρwater Vpoolcv∆T

Pfurn=

=5423.45 kw

Pin=

P= =6780 kw