BACHELOR OF PROCESS AND FOOD ENGINEERING WITH HONOURS

ECH 3116: HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER PROCESSES

SEMESTER 2 – 2020/2021

GROUP WORK 7 CHAPTER 8

LECTURER NAME:

PROF. MADYA DR. RABITAH BINTI ZAKARIA

PREPARED BY GROUP 2:

KAM YIT FEI (203723)

CHAN WAN YING (202735)

NURSYAZWANI BINTI SAPIAN (201740)

NORSYAFIQAH AZWANI BINTI ABDUL HALIM (202736)

Group work 7
Due: Monday 14 June 2021 11 am
In a certain food plant, hot air needed for drying food is generated by passing ambient air at 20 °C through a number of circular tubes of
5 m long with a diameter of 50 mm. The tubes are housed in a steam condenser where saturated steam condenses at 100 °C.

a. If an air flowrate of 0.01 kg/s is maintained in each tube, determine the air outlet temperature and the total rate of heat transfer
for the tube.
 b. Explore and discuss the effect of air flowrate between 0.005 kg/s to 0.1 kg /s on the i) heat transfer coefficient ii) total heat
transfer rate and iii) outlet temperature. Provide the necessary plots.

When the air flow rate increases, the heat transfer coefficient and the total heat transfer rate will increase. While the outlet temperature
will decrease when the air flow rate increases. This is because Reynolds number is proportional to the air flow rate. When air flow rate
increases, Reynolds number will increase, the Nusselt number also increases and thus the heat transfer coefficient increases and the
outlet temperature decreases. The increase of air flow rate is dominant compared to the decrease of outlet temperature, thus the total
heat transfer rate increases as well.
i)

Graph Heat Transfer Coefficient against Air Flow Rate

1.600E+02

1.400E+02

1.200E+02
Heat transfer coeffient, h (W/m2·K)

1.000E+02

8.000E+01

6.000E+01

4.000E+01

2.000E+01

0.000E+00
0 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04 0.05 0.06 0.07 0.08 0.09 0.1
Air flow rate, mdot (kg/s)
ii)

Graph Total Heat Transfer Rate against Air Flow Rate

6000

5000
Total heat transfer rate, Qtotal (W)

4000

3000

2000

1000

0
0 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04 0.05 0.06 0.07 0.08 0.09 0.1
Air flow rate, mdot (kg/s)
iii)

Graph Outlet Temperature against Air Flow Rate

90

85

80
Outlet temperature, Te (°C)

75

70

65

60
0 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04 0.05 0.06 0.07 0.08 0.09 0.1
Air flow rate, mdot (kg/s)
c. In a particular drying requirement, a total of 1 kg/s of hot air at 75 °C is needed. Determine the number of tubes needed to achieve
this requirement.

Since the outlet temperature of 75 °C is between the air flow rate of 0.060 kg/s and 0.065 kg/s, an interpolation is done to find
the air flow rate at 75 °C.