Assessment Task:

Practice Problem No.3

Solutions
 Heat Exchanger is to be designed for the following specifications: Hot Gas
Temperature (2100), Cold gas temperature (110), Unit surface conductance on
the hot side (198 kCal/hr--K, Unit surface conductance on the cold side (51
BTU/hr-R), Thermal conductivity of the metal wall (66 BTU/hr-ft-R). Draw a
diagram and compute the maximum thickness (in inches) of the metal between
the hot gas and cold gas so that the maximum temperature of the wall does not
exceed 1013
Given: Required:

x (inches)
Solutions:

  𝑘𝐴 ∆ 𝑇
 𝑈𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 : 𝑄=
𝑥
 𝑅𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 −𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒 h𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑓𝑒𝑟 :

 𝑄=𝑄 𝑖 =𝑄 1=𝑄 𝑜

 𝑆𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑥 2 (𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑡h𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠 ):

  𝐴 ∆𝑇
𝑄=
𝑅𝑇
1 𝑥1 1  
  𝑊h𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑅:
𝑇= + +
h 𝑖 𝑘 1 h𝑜

 ∆ 𝑇 =𝑡 𝑖 − 𝑡 𝑜
  𝑄= 𝐴 ∆𝑇
1 𝑥1 1
+ +
h𝑖 𝑘 1 h 𝑜

𝐴 (𝑡 𝑖 − 𝑡 𝑜 ) 1 1
 𝑇h𝑢𝑠 :
 
𝑥1 =
[ 𝑄
−
h𝑖
−
h𝑜
( 𝑘𝑖 )
]
 𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑄 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐴 𝑖𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑛 , 𝐿𝑒𝑡
𝑄=𝑄
  : 𝑖 =h𝑖 𝐴 ∆ 𝑇
 𝑊h𝑒𝑟𝑒 :  ∆ 𝑇 =𝑡 𝑖 − 𝑡 1

 𝑄 𝑖
=h 1 (𝑡 𝑖 − 𝑡 1 )
𝐴
 𝑄 𝑖 𝑘𝐶𝑎𝑙 4.1868 𝑘𝐽 1 𝐵𝑇𝑈 12 𝑚 2 5℃
=198 2
(2100 −1013)℉ × × × 2 2
×
𝐴 h𝑟 − 𝑚 −℃ 1 𝑘𝐶𝑎𝑙 1.055 𝑘𝐽 3.2808 𝑓𝑡 9℉
 𝑄 𝑖 𝐵𝑇𝑈
= 44085.1652 2
𝐴 h𝑟 − 𝑓𝑡
 𝐴 (𝑡 𝑖 − 𝑡 𝑜 ) 1 1
 
𝑥1 =
[ 𝑄
−
h𝑖
−
h𝑜
(]𝑘𝑖 )

𝑆𝑢𝑏𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔
  𝑡h𝑒 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠 :

  (2100 − 110)℉ 1 1 𝐵𝑇𝑈

𝑥1 =
[ 44085.1652
𝐵𝑇𝑈
h𝑟 − 𝑓𝑡
2
−
40.5567
𝐵𝑇𝑈
2
h𝑟 − 𝑓𝑡 −℉
−
51
𝐵𝑇𝑈
2
h𝑟 − 𝑓𝑡 −℉ ] ( 66
h𝑟 − 𝑓𝑡 −℉ )

  12 𝑖𝑛
𝑥1 =0.0578 𝑓𝑡 ×
1 𝑓𝑡

  𝒙𝟏 =𝟎 . 𝟔𝟗𝟑𝟔 𝒊𝒏 ≈ 𝟎 . 𝟕𝟎 𝒊𝒏