[April-12]

[EURME 603]

B.Tech. Degree Examination

Mechanical Engineering VI SEMESTER HEAT & MASS TRANSFER
(Effective from the admitted batch 200809)

Time: 3 Hours Max.Marks: 60 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Instructions: Each Unit carries 12 marks. Answer all units choosing one question from each unit. All parts of the unit must be answered in one place only. Figures in the right hand margin indicate marks allotted. Note: Heat and Mass Transfer Data Books to be allowed --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------UNIT-I 1. a) Explain the three modes of heat transfer and provide their general governing equations b) Derive the general heat conduction equation in cartesian coordinates
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2. a) Sketch the four types boundary conditions applied for solving fin heat transfer b) Aluminum fins of rectangular profile are attached on a plane wall with 5 mm spacing. The fins have thickness 1 mm, length = 10 mm and the thermal conductivity K = 200 W/mK. The wall is maintained at a temperature of 200oC and the fins dissipate heat by convection into ambient air at 40oC, with heat transfer coefficient = 50 W/m2K. Find the heat loss UNIT-II 3. a) Discuss the different methods of determining heat transfer co-efficient in forced convection b) A thin 80 cm long and 8 cm wide horizontal plate is maintained at a temperature of 130o C in a large tank full of water at 70oC. Estimate the rate of heat input into the plate necessary to maintain the temperature of 130oC

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4. a) Explain the significance of Grashoffs number in natural convective heat transfer 6 b) A flat electrical heater of 0.4 m0.4 m size is placed vertically in still air at 20oC. The heat generated is 1200 W/m2. Determine the value of convective heat transfer co-efficient and the average plate temperature 6 UNIT-III 5. a) Define the terms i) Absorptivity ii) Reflectivity and iii) Transmissivity b) Differentiate between specular and diffuse reflections c) Derive Stefan-Boltzmanns law from Planks law
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6. a) Derive a relation for heat transferred between two non black bodies exchanging heat due to radiation and draw the radiation network b) Emissivities of two large parallel plates maintained at 800o C and 300o C respectively. Find the net radiant heat exchange per square meter of the plates. If a polished aluminium shield (=0.05) is placed between them, find the percentage reduction in heat transfer. The emissivity of plates is 0.5 UNIT-IV 7. a) Derive an expression for effectiveness of a counter flow heat exchanger using NTU method b) Water (CP=4200 J/kg-K) enters a counter flow double pipe heat exchanger at 39oC at the rate of 273.6 kg/hr. It is heated by oil. (CP=1880 J/kg-K) flowing at the rate of 547.2 kg/hr from an inlet temperature fo 118oC. Find the total heat transfer rate per m2. Take U=342 W/m2-K
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8. a) Why the drop wise condensation is preferred to the film wise condensation? b) What are the factors influencing the heat transfer in nucleate boiling?

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c) Saturated, air free, steam at 80o C condenses on the outer surface of a 1.2 m long, 0.1 m diameter vertical tube which is maintained at uniform temperature 40oC. Calculate i) Average heat transfer coefficient ii) Mass of condensate collected UNIT-V

9. a) Distinguish between Diffusion Mass Transfer and Convective Mass Transfer 6 o b) Estimate the diffusion rate of water at 30 C from the bottom of a test tube 20 mm in diameter and 40 mm deep, into dry air at 30oC. Take the diffusion coefficient of water in air as 0.2610-4 m2/s 6
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10. a) Explain the Phenomenon of simultaneous heat and mass transfer b) Dry air at 1 atm and 200 C is blown on both sides of a flat plate in a direction parallel to the plate with a velocity of 2.5 m/s. The plate is 1 m long and 0.25 m wide. It is at the same temperature as the air and its surfaces are wetted with a film of water. Calculate the rate of evaporation from the plate

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