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Assignment 2 Problems Ans.

1. A glow plug is centrally fitted in a cylinder cover of an engine of 8 cm bore and 10 cm stroke to facilitate
starting of an engine. The plug is a piece of nichrome wire 2 mm in diameter and 5 mm in length having ε
= 0.9 when heated electrically to 1000 oC. If temperature of the cylinder and piston is 30 oC, emissivity of
the surface of bore 0.3 and that of the aluminum piston 0.2, determine the radiation from the glow plug
which is lost to the cylinder and piston crown, assuming vacuum in the cylinder during the radiation heat
transfer. [Hint: Plug area=  d 2  dl ]
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2. Two square plates, each of 5m2 area are separated by a gap of 6mm. One plate, whose surface emissivity is
0.7 is at a temperature of 900K. The other plate has surface emissivity of 0.95 and a temperature of 300K.
Assuming the plates to be much larger than the gap, calculate the net radiation exchange between the
plates. If a thin polished metal sheet of surface emissivity 0.15 on both sides is interposed between two
plates, calculate the steady state temperature and the new net radiation exchange through the system.
Calculate how many times the heat loss by radiation will be reduced.
3. Three hollow thin walled cylinders having diameters 10 cm, 20 cm and 30cm are arranged concentrically.
The temperatures of the innermost and outermost cylindrical surfaces are 100 K and 300 K respectively.
Assuming vacuum between the annular spaces, find the steady state temperature attained by the cylindrical
surface having diameter of 20 cm. Take 1= 2 = 3 = 0.05
4. A thermocouple used to measure the temperature of gas flowing through a duct, records 280˚C. If the duct
wall temperature is 140˚C, emissivity of the junction is 0.4 and convection coefficient is 150 W/m 2K, find
the true gas temperature. What should be emissivity of the junction in order to reduce the error by 30%?