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21.04.2022
MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
ME 312 THERMAL ENGINEERING – SPRING 2022
HOMEWORK 3 SOLUTION

Q1) A horizontal cylindrical electrical heater with diameter D = 3 cm and length L = 3 m is used to boil water at 1 atm. The
brass heater operates in the nucleate boiling regime with a heat flux of 85% of the critical value. Find the surface temperature
of the heater and water boiling rate in kg/min.

m
D 3 cm L 3m g 9.81
2
s
From Table A.6:
kg kg 3 N
T_sat 373 K ρ_l 957.9 ρ_v 0.5955 σ 58.9 10
3 3 m
m m

6 kJ J
μ_l 279 10 Pa s h_fg 2257 Pr_l 1.76 Cp_l 4217
kg kg K

π
Critical heat flux is found using Eqn. 10.6 and for large cylinders C
24

1
4
σ g ρ_l ρ_v 6 W
q_fcr C h_fg ρ_v 1.1057 10 All properties are evaluated at saturation
2 2 temperature
ρ_v m

Operated heat flux is 85% of critical heat flux

5 W
q_s 0.85 q_fcr 9.3981 10
2
m

Table 10.1 gives fluid- surface combination for water-brass:

C_s 0.006 n 1

Using nucleate pool boiling correlation Eqn.10.5

1
3
1
2 n
q_s g ρ_l ρ_v C_s h_fg Pr_l
ΔTe 8.7712 K
μ_l h_fg σ Cp_l

T_s T_sat ΔTe 381.7712 K

5
Q q_s π D L 2.6572 10 W

Q kg
m_dot 7.064
h_fg min

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