srar2021 nips:feneguide.com/heal_loss_insulalion him! Heat Loss from Insulated Pipe Sat, 19 Dee 2015 Heat loss/gain takes place from a pipe carrying hotter/ colder fluid than ambient temperature. Insulation reduces the heat loss to surroundings. Heat loss depends upon number of factors like insulation thickness, ambient temperature, wind speed ete. This article shows how to calculate heat loss from an insulated pipe and a bare pipe to surroundings Example A3" Carbon steel pipe is carrying hot oll at 180°C and insulated with 50 mm thick calcium silicate insulation. Insulation is|cladded with a sheet with surface emissivity of 0.9. Ambient temperature is 28°C and wind velocity is 3.5 m/s. Calculate surface temperature and heat loss from insulated and bare pipe. Fluid air Insulation —> | pa |o2 | 03 Pipe — Overall heat transfer coefficient of an insulated pipe is defined as following. D. ms.) Dy), 1 2.knwsurarion Mair Dyin where, kpipE; KINSULATION fe thermal conductivity of pipe and insulation. hin is heat transfer coefficient for fluid flowing in pipe and hair is heat transfer coefficient due to air flowing outside the pipe. The first two terms of denominator in above equation are generally smaller compared to remaining terms and can be neglected, For this example first term due to pipe fluid is ignored, schoices [> Saca una ventaja Sizing Expansic creativa for Hot Oil Sys Ac isock by Gety Imeges chepuidecom Air Side Heat Transfer Coefficient, hain hitps:icheguide.comheat_loss_nsulation ntmt ussisi2021 nips:feneguide.com/heal_loss_insulalion him! following. tLaverage = ( t_surface + t_anbient )/ 2 Estimate thermodynamic properties of air like thermal conductivity (k), viscosity (1), expansion coefficient (B = 1/Laverage), air density (p), kinematic viscosity (v), specific heat (Cp) and thermal diffusivity (a) at average air film temperature. These properties are available in literature in form of tables, these can be fitted into a polynomial form using excel's LINEST function. Reynolds's number (Re), Prandtl number (Pr) and Rayleigh number (Ra) are calculated based on above properties. b_radiation Heat transfer coefficient due to radiation is calculated using following relation, h_radiation = © © (t_surface* - t_anbient4)/ (t_surface - t_anbient) where Gis Stefan Boltzmann coefficient and € is emissivity for cladded surface. h_convection Convective heat transfer coefficient comprises of forced and free convection. Forced convection can be modeled based on correlation by Churchill and Bernstein 4s 0.62 Re Y2Pr/s Re \/s Nu=03+ (14 ( ) 2/4 282,000, b+ G3) hforced = Nu-kair / D3 Free convection is calculated based on correlation by Churchill and Chu. 0.387 Ras 0.559) 7/16 a b+ 2)" Nu= }0.6+ h free = Nu.k_air / 03 hitps:icheguide.comheat_loss_nsulation ntmtsisi2021 nips:feneguide.com/heal_loss_insulalion him! Nu_conbined = ( Nu_forced 4 + nu_free 4) 025 hLconvection = Nu_combined.k_air / 03 Conductivity Theory Guide Get the Conductivity Theory Guide to le measurement, METTLER TOLEDO Air side heat transfer coefficient is calculated as following. hair = h_radiation + h_convection Overall Heat Transfer Coefficient, U ‘Thermal conductivity for insulation material and pipe is available in literature and depends upon temperature. It can be fitted into a polynomial equation using LINEST function in excel. Heat transfer resistance due to pipe and insulation is calculated using following relation pipe = 03.1n(02/01) / 2.k_pipe insulation = D3.1n(03/D2) / 2.k_insulation Overall heat transfer coefficient is calculated as. overall = r_pipe + r_insulation + 1/h_air U'= 4/r_overall Heat flowing through insulation is estimated. Q = (tLoperating - t_anbient)/r_overall A revised estimate for interface and surface temperature is made. t_interface = t_operating - Q.r_pipe tlsurface = tLinterface - Q.r_insulation ‘Above steps are repeated with these new estimates till there is negligible difference in temperature. ‘stlorhomesooe, hitps:icheguide.comheat_loss_nsulation ntmtsrarz021 -nips:feneguide.comih 3 Joss_insulation him! Heattoss = 103 Q Bare Pipe For heat loss from bare pipe all above steps are repeated with resistance due to insulation not considered. pipe = 02.1n(02/01) / 2.k_pipe rloverall = r_pipe + 1/h_air For this example surface temperature and heat loss are as following 6 H i K Fluid Air Insulation —lp 10 Pipe 12 Insulated Pipe 13 Surface Temperature 319°C 14 Heat Loss 73.8 wim 15 Bare Pipe 16 Surface Temperature 179.4 °C 17 Heat Loss 1545.2 w/m Spreadsheet for Heat Loss from insulated Pipe Pipe Network Analysis Estimating Binary Interaction Parameter by Regression hitps:icheguide.comheat_loss_nsulation ntmtsrar2021 hitps:icheguide.comheat_loss_nsulation html hitpsficneguide.comheal_loss_insulation irl sis