2. The air in a room is at 25° c and outside temperature is 0° c.

The window of the room has an

area of 2m2 and thickness 2mm. Calculate the rate of loss of heat by conduction through
window ? Thermal conductivity for glass is 1 Wm – 1degree– 1.

Sol: Rate of loss of heat is given by 

where Q is the quantity of heat that flows from hot area to cold area and is given by Q

Q =

=
 Rate of loss 
k is Thermal conductivity of glass = 1 Wm– 1deg– 1
A Area of the window = 2 m2
T1 Temperature in the room = 25° c
T2Temperature outside the room = 0° c
x is thickness of the window = 2mm = 2 × 10– 3

=
 
  = 25 × 103 w/s
  = 25 kw/s

Determine the rate of heat transfer by conduction per unit area, by means of

conduction for a furnace wall made of fire clay. Furnace wall thickness is 6" or half a
foot. Thermal conductivity of the furnace wall clay is 0.3 W/m·K. The furnace wall
temperature can be taken to be same as furnace operating temperature which is
6500C and temperature of the outer wall of the furnace is 150 0C.

Solution

Solution to this sample problem is quite straightforward as demonstrated below.

As

For heat transfer by conduction across a flat wall, the heat transfer rate is
expressed by following equation,

For the given sample problem,

T1 = 6500C
T2 = 1500C
L = 12" = 12 × 0.0254 m = 0.3048 m
k = 0.3 W/m·K

Hence,

Heat transfer rate per unit area of the wall is calculated as,

Q/A = k × (T1 - T2)/L

Q/A = 0.3×(650-150)/0.3048 W/m2 = 492.13 W/m2

This figure multiplied by the area of the furnace wall, will determine the total heat
transfer rate in Joules/sec i.e. Watt.