UNIVERSITY OF CEBU-MAIN CAMPUS

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

POWER AND INDUSTRIAL PLANT ENGINEERING
PROBLEM SETS

PPE - PROBLEM SET MACHINE FOUNDATION & HEAT TRANSFER

1.What is the required base area (ft2) of the foundation to support an engine with specific
speed of 1200 rpm, and weight of 11000 kg, assume bearing capacity of soil as 48 kpa. Use e
= 0.12.
A. 11.6 B. 131.2 C. 124.803 D. 126.8
2. Determine the required speed of an engine having a weight and foundation area to be
23,750 lbs and 150ft2, respectively. Assume a soil bearing capacity as 0.45 kg/cm2. Use e=
0.11.
A. 1500 rpm B. 1520 rpm C. 1820 rpm D. 1920 rpm
3. The heat transfer across a 5” wall of firebrick is 500 W/m2. If the surface temperature on
cold side is 30oC and thermal conductivity of brick is 0.7 Btu/hr-ft-oF, find the temperature
on hot side.
A. 82.41oC B. 65.37oC C. 73.45oC D. 87.25oC
4. Two walls of a storage plant composed of insulating material (k = 0.25 KJ/hr-m-oC) with 15
cm thick and concrete (k = 3.2382 KJ/hr-m-oC) with 10 cm thick. The surface temperature on
hot side is 35oC and coldside is -10oC. If the area is 8 m square, find the temperature
between walls. Note: Insulating material is on
cold side.
A. 28.34oC B. 34.12oC C. 32.79oC D. -7.78oC
5. Determine the thermal conductivity of a material that is used a 4 m2 test panel, 25 mm
thick with a temperature difference of 20oF between surfaces. During the 4 hrs of test period,
the heat transmitted is 500KJ.
A. 0.0432 W/m-oC B. 0.0723 W/m-oC C. 0.0321 W/m-oC D. 0.0195 W/m-oC
6. Steam initially is saturated at 250oC passed through a 12 cm steel pipe for a total distance
of 200 m. The steam line is insulated with material having k = 10 W/m2-K and thickness of 6
cm. The ambient temperature of 25oC. Determine the surface film conductance of air if the
moisture at the discharge end is 10% and
steam rate is 0.13 kg/s.
A. 0.124 W/m2-oC B. 0.872 W/m2-oC C. 0.661 W/m2-oC D. 0.452 W/m2-oC
7. At an average temperature of 110oC, hot air flows through a 5 m pipe with outside
diameter of 80 mm and pipe thickness is 1 cm. The temperature of the tube along its entire
length is 24oC. If heat transfer is 650 W,find the convective film coefficient, W/m2-oC .
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4
8. A tank contains liquid nitrogen at -190oC is suspended in a vacuum shell by three stainless
steel rods 0.80 cm in diameter and 3 meters long with a thermal conductivity of 16.3 W/m-oC.
If the ambient air outside the vacuum shell is 25oC, calculate the magnitude of the conductive
heat flow in watts along the support rods.
A. 0.143 B. 0.0587 C. 0.182 D. 0.176
9. The volume of concrete needed for the foundation of an engine is 12 cubic meters. The
concrete mixture is 1:3:5 by volume. Calculate the number of 40 kg-bags of cement needed
considering the density of cementas 1500 kg/m3.
A. 60 B. 55 C. 45 D. 50
10. A composite furnace is to be constructed. The inside wall temperature is 1300oC while the
outside wall temperature is 40oC. Three types of bricks are available with the following
properties:
Brick Thermal Thickness Maximum allowable
Conductivity temperature
(W/moK) (meters) (oC)
A 1.5 0.12 2000
B 0.2 0.070 1000
C 0.7 0.10 500
The heat loss must not exceed 800W/m2. Calculate the minimum wall thickness in meters.
A. 0.76 B. 0.88 C. 0.82 D. 0.77
11. The surface of a furnace wall is at a temperature of 1350oC. The outside wall temperature
is 42oC. The furnace wall is made of 25 cm of refractory material having a thermal
conductivity of 1.4 W/moK. The outside wall is steel, 1 cm thick with thermal conductivity of
47 W/moK. Calculate the thickness in meters of brick to be installed in between the refractory
material and steel if its thermal conductivity is 0.28 W/moK and
the heat loss is not to exceed 750 W/m2.
A. 0.438 B. 0.402 C. 0.481 D. 0.513
12. A counterflow heat exchanger is designed to cool 0.65 kg/sec of oil with specific heat Cp =
3.4 KJ/kgoK from 150oC to 70oC. Water for cooling, Cp = 4.18 KJ/kgoK is available at 20oC
and flow rate of 0.6 kg/sec. Calculate the length of a 3.5 cm inside diameter tubing in meters.
The overall coefficient of heat transfer is 90 W/m2 oK.
A. 337 B. 452 C. 296 D. 543
13. A cold soda initially at 2oC gains 18 KJ of heat in a room at 20oC during a 15-minute
period. What is the average rate of heat transfer during the process?
A. 20 W B. 18 W C. 12 WD. 10 W
14. The air contained in a room loses heat to the surroundings at a rate of 50 KJ/min while
work is supplied to the room by computer. TV, and lights at a rate of 1.2 KW. What is the net
amount of energy change in KJ of
air in the room during a 30-minute period?
A. 0.36 B. 70 C. 660 D. 1100
15. Saturated steam at 500oK flows in a 0.20 m inside diameter, 0.21 m outside diameter
pipe. The pipe is covered with 0.08 m of insulation with a thermal conductivity of 0.10 W/m-K.
The pipe’s conductivity is 52 W/m-K. The ambient temperature is 300oK. The unit convective
coefficients are h1 = 18,000 W/m2-K and ho = 12 W/m2-K. Determine the heat loss from 4 m
of pipe.
A. 778.21 watts B. 825.80 watts C. 830.80 watts D. 835.80 watts
16. An insulated steam pipe located where the ambient temperature is 32 C, has an inside
diameter of 50 mm with 10 mm thick wall. The outside diameter of the corrugated asbestos
insulation is 125 mm and the surface coefficient of still air, ho = 12 W/m2-K. Inside the pipe is
steam having a temperature of 150 C with film coefficient hi = 6000 W/m2-K. Thermal
conductivity of pipe and asbestos insulation are 45 and 0.12
W/m-K respectively. Determine the heat loss per unit length of pipe.
A. 110 W B. 120 W C. 130 W D. 140 W
17. Sea water for cooling enters a condenser at 25oC and leaves at 40oC. The condenser
temperature is 45oC, what is the log mean temperature difference?
A. 16.34oC B. 10.82 oC C. 23.34oC D. 12.34oC
18. The hot combustible gasses of a furnace are separated from the ambient air and its
surrounding, which are 28oC, by a brick wall 120 mm thick. The brick has a thermal
conductivity of 1.23 W/m-oK and a surface emissivity of 0.82. At steady state conditions the
outer surface temperature is 120oC. Air surface film conductance is 15 W/m2-oK. What is the
total heat transmitted for 20 square meter area.
A. 42.15 KW B. 23.45 KW C. 45.45 KW D. 52.45 KW
19. A counterflow heat exchanger is designed to heat fuel oil from 26oC to 100oC while the
heating fluid enters at 138oC and leaves at 105oC. The fuel oil is 27oAPI and has a specific
heat of 2.3 KJ/kgoK and enters the heat exchanger at the rate of 1000 gallons per hour.
Determine the heating surface area if overall coefficient of heat transfer is 420 Kcal/hr-m2-oK.
A. 4.21 m2 B. 3.12 m2 C. 2.34 m2 D. 5.84 m2
20. A plate-type solar energy collector with an absorbing surface covered by a glass plate is to
receive an incident radiation of 800 W/m2. The glass plate has a reflectivity of 0.12 and a
transmissivity of 0.80. The absorbing surface has an absorptivity of 0.90. The area of the
collector is 5 m2. How much solar energy in watts is absorbed by the collector?
A. 2500 B. 2880 C. 3510 D. 3168
21. What is the log mean temperature difference in oC of a double-pipe counterflow heat
exchanger where a fluid enters at 90oC and exits at 50oC. Inside the inner pipe another fluid
enters at 20oC and exits at 60oC.
A. 0 B. 30 C. 75 D. 35
22. Heat is transferred from hot water to an oil in a double-pipe counterflow heat exchanger.
Water enters the outer pipe at 95oC and exits at 40oC while the oil enters the inner pipe at
25oC and exits at 50oC. Calculate the log mean temperature difference.
A. 38.05 B. 30.83 C. 27.31 D. 52.5
23. The filament of a 100-watt bulb maybe considered a black body radiating into a black
enclosure at 80oC. Considering only radiation, calculate the filament temperature in oC if the
filament diameter is 0.10 mm and the length is 6 cm.
A. 2514 B. 2837 C. 3122 D. 26745 D. 13,502