A plane wall that is 20 cm thick and has a constant thermal conductivity k=3 W/m-K undergoes one dimensional steady

conduction. The surface temperature of the left side of the wall is known (T1=50 deg C) and the right side of the wall is
exposed to air (Tair=10 deg C) and convective heat transfer (h=60 W/m2-K). What is the temperature at the interface between
the wall and the air on the right hand side (T2)? Answer: 18 deg C

Asphalt pavements on hot summer days exhibit surface temperatures of approximately 50°C. Consider such a surface to
emit as a blackbody and calculate the emitted radiant energy per unit surface area. Answer: 617.1534 W/m2

Air at 20° C blows over a plate of 50 cm x 75 cm maintained at 250° C. If the convection heat transfer coefficient is 25 W/m2
°C, the heat transfer rate in cal/hr is ___________. Answer: 1 854 395.604 cal/ hr

A sphere (emissivity=0.42) of radius 25 cm is at 27 deg C. It’s placed in a room with a temperature of 2 deg C. (a) What is
the rate of heat energy leaving the sphere? (b) What is the rate of heat energy entering the sphere? (c) What is the rate of
heat energy for the sphere? (d) How long will it take for the sphere to lose 1x10^6 Joules of energy?
Answer: (a)151.4981, (b) 106.9678, (c) 44.5303, (d) 6.238 hrs
A house has brick walls 15 mm thick. On a cold winter day, the temperatures of the inner and outer surfaces of the walls
are measured and found to be 20 deg C and -12 deg C, respectively. If there is 120 m2 of exterior wall space, and the
thermal conductivity of brick is 0.711 J/m-s-deg C, how much heat is lost through the walls per hour? Answer: 660 MJ

A counter-flow bank of boiler tubes has a total area of 900 sq ft and its overall efficiency of heat transfer is 13 Btu/hr-ft2-
degF. Calculate the heat transferred if the log mean temperature difference is 1380 deg F. Answer: 16,146,000 Btu/hr

A liquid to liquid counterflow heat exchanger is used to heat a cold fluid from 120 deg F to 310 deg F. Assuming that the
hot fluid enters at 500 deg F and leaves at 400 deg F, calculate the log mean temperature difference for the heat exchanger.
Answer: 232 F

A 3-mm diameter and 5-m long electric wire is tightly wrapped with a 2-mm thick plastic cover whose thermal conductivity
is k=0.15 W/m-deg C. Electrical measurement indicates that a current of 10 A passes through the wire and there is a voltage
drop of 8 V along the wire. If the insulated wire is exposed to a medium at 30 deg C, with a heat transfer coefficient, h=12
W/m2-deg C, determine the temperature interface of the wire and the critical radius. Answer: 105 C, 12.5 mm

A thin, disk-shaped silicon wafer of diameter D=20 cm on a production line must be maintained at a temperature of 100 deg
C. The wafer loses heat to the room by convection and radiation from its upper surface, while heat is supplied at a constant
flux from below. The surrounding air is at 20 deg C, while all surrounding surfaces (which can be treated as blackbodies)
can be approximated to be isothermal at a temperature of 15 deg C. The wafer-to-air heat transfer coefficient is 30 W/m2-K
and the emissivity of the wafer’s surface (which can be approximated to be gray) is 0.85. How much heat (in W) must be
supplied to the wafer? Answer: 93.5474 W

Consider a 1.2-m-high and 2-m-wide glass window whose thickness is 6 mm and thermal conductivity is k = 0.78 W/m-°C.
Determine the steady rate of heat transfer through this glass window for a day during which the room is maintained at 24°C
while the temperature of the outdoors is 5°C. Take the convection heat transfer coefficients on the inner and outer surfaces
of the window to be h1 = 10 W/m2-°C and h2 = 25 W/m2-°C, and disregard any heat transfer by radiation. Answer: 308.75 W

Consider a steam pipe of length 15 ft, inner radius 2 in., outer radius 2.4 in., and thermal conductivity 7.2 Btu/hr-ft-°F. Steam
is flowing through the pipe at an average temperature of 250°F, and the average convection heat transfer coefficient on the
inner surface is given to be 1.25 Btu/hr-ft2-°F. If the average temperature on the outer surfaces of the pipe is 160°F,
determine the rate of heat loss from the steam through the pipe. Answer: 1056.94 Btu/hr

A 2-m x 1.8-m section of wall of an industrial furnace burning natural gas is not insulated, and the temperature at the outer
surface of this section is measured to be 80°C. The temperature of the furnace room is 30°C, and the combined convection
and radiation heat transfer coefficient at the surface of the outer furnace is 10 W/m 2 • °C. It is proposed to insulate this
section of the furnace wall with expanded perlite insulation (k = 0.052 W/m • °C) in order to reduce the heat loss by 90%.
Assuming the outer surface temperature of the metal section still remains at about 80°C, determine the thickness of the
insulation that needs to be used. Answer: 4.68 cm