PROBLEM SET -- 1

The coating on a plate is cured by exposure to

IR lamp providing a uniform irradiation of 2000
W/m2. It absorbs 80% of the irradiation and
has an emissivity of 0.50. It is also exposed to
an airflow and large surroundings for which
temperatures are 20oC and 30oC respectively.

Write the energy balance equation.

A student living in a 4m by 6m by 6m room turns his 150W fan on
before she leaves her room on a summer day hoping that the
room will be cooler when she comes back in the evening.
Assuming all the doors and windows are tightly closed and
disregarding any heat transfer through the walls and the windows,
determine the temperature in the room when she comes back 10
hours later. Use specific heat values at room temperature and
assume the room to be at 100 kPa and 15°C in the morning when
she leaves.

R=0.287 kPa.m3/kg.K; Cp=1.007 kJ/kg.K;

50-cm-long, 800-W electric resistance heating element with
diameter 0.5 cm and surface temperature 120°C is immersed in 60
kg of water initially at 20°C. Determine how long it will take for
this heater to raise the water temperature to 80°C. Also,
determine the convection heat transfer coefficients at the
beginning and at the end of the heating process.

C=4.18 kJ/kg.oC
An ice chest whose outer dimensions are 30 cm 40 cm 40 cm is
made of 3cm thick Styrofoam (k= 0.033 W/m · °C). Initially, the
chest is filled with 40 kg of ice at 0°C, and the inner surface
temperature of the ice chest can be taken to be 0°C at all times.
The heat of fusion of ice at 0°C is 333.7 kJ/kg, and the
surrounding ambient air is at 30°C. Disregarding any heat transfer
from the 40cm by 40cm base of the ice chest, determine how
long it will take for the ice in the chest to melt completely if the
outer surfaces of the ice chest are at 8°C.
A refrigerator stands in a room, where air temperature is 21oC.
The surface temperature on the outside of the refrigerator is
16oC. The sides are 30mm thick and has an equivalent thermal
conductivity of 0.10 W/m.K. The heat transfer coefficient on the
outside is 10 W/m2.K. Assuming one dimensional conduction
through the sides, calculate the net heat flow rate and the inside
surface temperature of the refrigerator.