Heat Transfer Nov2002 NR 310803

Code No.310803 Set No.
III/IV B.Tech (I Semester) Examination, Nov. 2002.

HEAT TRANSFER
(Chemical Engineering)
1
Time: 3 Hrs. Max. Marks: 80
Answer any Five questions
All question carry equal marks
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1 A double layer furnace wall built with 400mm red brick (k=0.6 Kcal/m hr0C) and
250mm refraction brick (k=1.12 Kcal/m hr 0C). Calculate the amount of heat
passing per m2 of the composite wall if the inner and outer surfaces are at 10000c
& 500c respected.
2 A composite wall separates combustion gases at 26000C from a liquid coolant at
1000C, with gas and liquid side convection co-efficient of 50 & 1000 w/m2K. The
wall is composed of a 10 mm thick layer of beryllium oxide on the gas side and a
20 mm thick slab of steel on the liquid side. The contact resistance between the
oxide and the steel is 0.05-m2 K/w. What is the heat loss per unit surface area of
the composite sketch the temperature distribution form the gas to the liquid?
3 a) Show that coefficient of thermal expansion of an ideal gas equals the reciprocal of
absolute temperature.
b) What is Peclet number? When is it computed?
c) In a heat exchanger, water flows through a 0.02 m inner diameter copper tube at a
velocity of 1.5 m/s. The water entering the tube at 150C is heated by steam
condensing at 1000C on the outside surface of the tube. What would be heat
transfer coefficient for water if it is to leave the pipe at 450C? The physical
properties of water at the buld temperature 300C are as follows.
Thermal conductivity is 0.6172 W/(m.K)
Kinematic Viscosity 0.805 x 10-6 m2/s
Density 995 kg/m3.
Specific heat 4171 J/(kg.K)
4 a) Explain the Raleigh’s method of dimensional analysis giving an example.
b) How do you determine Grashof number? State its physical significance.
5 a) Explain the characteristic of flow boiling.
b) Write short notes on Turbulent film condensation and Condensation number
6 a) Enumerate the salient features of thermal radiation.
b) Explain the terms, absorptivity, reflectivity and transmissivity. How are they related
to each other for a black body?
c) What do you understand by black body and gray body?
7 a) With a neat diagram, explain the working of a Floating head Heat Exchanger.
b) With a neat diagram, explain the working of a forced circulation evaporator.
8 a) Discuss the different methods of feeding in evaporator with neat diagrams
b) State and explain the Duhring’s rule.
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HEAT TRANSFER
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1 A pipe carrying condensing steam has unit surface conductance of the steam side
film 5655 w/m2K & that of the outside air film 7/85 w/m2 K. Calculate the
temperature of outer surface of the pipe laid in a room at temperature 300 C. Take
thermal resistance of pipe is 1.85 x 10-4 K/w per m2 of pipe.
2 Two SS plates 10mm thick are subjected to a contact pressure of 1 bar under
vacuum Condition for which there is an overall temperature drop of 1000 C across
the plates what is the heat flex-through the plates? What is the temperature drop
across the contact plane?
3 a) Derive Colburn analogy and State its significance.
b) A large vertical plate 4.0 m high is maintained at 600 C and exposed to
atmospheric air at 100 C. Calculate the heat transfer if the plate is 10 m wide. The
properties of interest are:
Thermal conductivity is 0.02685 W/m0 K
Kinematic viscosity is 16.5 x 10-6 m2/s
Pr = 0.7.
Employ the correlation Nu= 0.10 (Gr Pr) 0.33
4 a) Discuss how the geometric parameter of the pipe, physical properties of the fluid
and its velocity influence the heat transfer coefficient in the fluid flow in a pipe.
b) Water at 300C is flowing through a pipe of 25 mm inner diameter at a rate of 1
m3/hr. Find the heat transfer coefficient in water if the length of the pipe is 50 cm.
The thermal conductivity, density and kinematic viscosity of water are 0.63
W/m0K, 980 Kg/m3, and 0.6 x 10 –6 m2/s respectively.
5 a) Explain about film boiling
b) Discuss the merits and demerits of film wise and drop wise condensation.
6 a) State and prove Kirchoff’s law of radiation
b) What restrictive conditions are inherent in the derivation of Kirchoff’s law?
c) Expalin the Utility of this law.
7 a) Write briefly about condensers used in evaporation.
b) Derive an expression for LMTD in case of a counter – current flow double pipe
heat exchanger.
8 a) With a neat diagram explain a long vertical tube evaporator.

b) Discuss the accessories used in evaporators.
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HEAT TRANSFER
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1 Calculate the rate of heat loss through a plane of homogeneous wall whose
thickness is considerably smaller than its. Width and length assuming the wass to
be made form steal (k = 40 w/m K), concrete (k- 1.2), Diatomite brick (k = 0.12).
Wall thickness of all the materials is equal to 5cm. The inner & outer surfaces are
at 1000 C & 1000C respected.
2 Consider a plane composite wall that is compared of two materials of KA = 0.1 & xB
= 20mm. The contact resistance at the interface between the two materials is knows
to be 0.30-m2 k/w. Material A adjoins a fluid at 200 C for which h= 10 w/m 2K and
material B Adjoins a fluid at 400 C for which h=20 w/m2K.
a) What is the rate of HT through a wall that is 2m high by 2.5m wide?
b) Sketch the temperature distribution.
3 a) What do you understand by hydrodynamic & thermal boundary layers? Illustrate

with reference to flow over a heated flat plate. How is the boundary layer
thickness defined?
b) A Steam pipe 0.05 m diameter and 2.5 m long has been placed horizontally and
exposed to still air at 250C. If the pipe wall temperature is 2950 C, determine the
rate of heat loss. At the mean temperature of 1600 C, the thermo-physical
properties of air are:
Thermal conductivity is 0.036 W/(m.K)
Kinematic viscosity is 30.09 x 10-6 m 2/s
Pr = 0.682.
For laminar flow over horizontal cylinders within the range 103<(Gr.Pr)<109, use
Nu = 0.53 (Grpr)0.25
4 a) Discuss the various analogy equations relating skin friction and heat transfer.
b) Write about the effect of tube length on inside film coefficient when heat transfer
takes place by forced convection in turbulent flow of fluids through tubes.
c) Discuss the effect of roughness on heat transfer coefficient in turbulent flow of
fluids in tubes.
5 a) Explain about nucleate boiling.

b) Explain about Heat Transfer in boiling.
Contd ..
Code No.310803 2 Set No 3
6 a) How does thermal radiation differs from other types of electromagnetic radiation?
b) Distinguish between specular and diffuse surfaces.
c) Define radiation intensity.
d) What is meant by the radiation shape factor?
7 a) Derive an expression for LMTD for a parallel flow double pipe heat exchanger
b) Explain the method of correcting LMTD for a multipass shell and tube heat
exchanger
c) Why is a counter current flow heat exchanger more suitable than a parallel flow
heat exchanger.
8 a) With a neat diagram explain a double pipe heat exchanger

b) Explain with net diagram the temperature profiles for parallel current and counter
current heat exchanger.
c) Define capacity and economy of an evaporator.
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III/IV B.Tech (I Semester) Examination, Nov. 2002. 4

HEAT TRANSFER
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1 Determine the loss of heat transferring through wall (L=5m, h=10m, t=250mm)
laid from red brick (k=0.7 w/m 0C) if the temperature on the wall surfaces are
maintained constantly. T1=1500c T2=800C.
2 A pipe with 150mm outer diameter is lagged with two layers insulation each of
equal thickness 50mm the k of one of the insulating materials is five times that of
other. What will be the ratio of heat loss when the better insulating material forms
the outer layer to that when the better insulating material is placed next to the
pipe? Assume the inner and outer surface temperature of the composite.
Insulation is fixed.
3 a) Obtain a relation between the heat transfer coefficient and the friction coefficient.
b) 0.02 kg/s of air at a bulk temperature of 325K flows through 0.1 m inside
diameter tube. Predict the coefficient of heat transfer by convection between the
air and tubes. For the turbulent flow use the correlation Nu=0.023 (Re)0.8 (Pr)0.4.
Following are the properties of air at the bulk temperature:
Thermal conductivity is 0.028 (W/(m.K)
Viscosity is 1.96 x 10-6 kg/m.s
Pr=0.70 If the wall temperature is 375 K, What would be the heat transfer rate for
one meter length of the pipe 2.
4 a) What is Prandtl number? Explain its physical significance in detail
b) Explain how film coefficient is evaluated for heat transfer by forced convection in
laminar flow, turbulent flow, and transition flow of fluids through circular tubes.
5 AT a low overall ∆T the boiling heat flux for a tube bundle is about 4 times that
for a single tube, but at a high ∆T the flux is much lower than that for a single
tube. Give a logical explanation of the difference.
Contd …
Code No.310803 2 Set No 4
6 a) List the salient features of a black body radiation.

b) Calculate the radiant flux density form a black body at 400 C.
c) If the emitted radiant energy is to be doubled, to what temperature surface of the
black body be raised?
7 a) Discuss the advantages of NTU method over the LMTD method in the design of
heat exchanger.
b) Classify various types of evaporators with industrial applications.
8 Derive the equation for heat transfer through a pin fin for (i) an infinitely long fin
and (ii) the end of the fin is insulated
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Code No.310803 Set No.

III/IV B.Tech (I Semester) Examination, Nov. 2002.

III/IV B.Tech (I Semester) Examination, Nov. 2002.

8 a) With a neat diagram explain a long vertical tube evaporator.

III/IV B.Tech (I Semester) Examination, Nov. 2002.

3 a) What do you understand by hydrodynamic & thermal boundary layers? Illustrate

5 a) Explain about nucleate boiling.

8 a) With a neat diagram explain a double pipe heat exchanger

III/IV B.Tech (I Semester) Examination, Nov. 2002. 4

6 a) List the salient features of a black body radiation.

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