Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering Faculty of Eng & Built Environment Callaghan NSW 2308, Australia

Professor Behdad Moghtaderi Ph: +61 (2) 4985-4411 Fax: +61 (2) 4921-6920 Email: Behdad.Moghtaderi@.Newcastle.edu.au

CHEE 2691 (Part A: Heat Transfer)

Tutorial No. 2 Aug 17, 2011 1. The bottom of a pan is made of a 4-mm-thick aluminum layer. In order to increase the rate of heat transfer through the bottom of the pan, someone proposes a design for the bottom that consists of a 3-mm-thick copper layer sandwiched between two 2-mm-thick aluminum layers. Will the new design conduct heat better? Why? 2. Consider a 1.2-m-high and 2-m-wide double-pane window consisting of two 3-mmthick layers of glass (k = 0.78 W/moC) separated by a 12-mm-wide air space. Determine the steady rate of heat transfer through the window and the temperature of its inner surface for a day during which the room is maintained at 24oC while the outdoor temperature is 5oC. The convective heat transfer coefficients on the inner and outer window surfaces are 10 W/m2 oC and 25 W/m2 oC, respectively. Assume that the thermal conductivity of air is 0.026 W/moC and ignore any radiative heat transfer. 3. Clothing made of several thin layers of fabric with trapped air in between, often called ski clothing, is commonly used in cold climate because it is light, fashionable and very effective thermal insulator. Consider a jacket made of five layers of 0.1-mm-thick synthetic fabric (k = 0.13 W/moC) with 1.5-mm-thick air space (k = 0.026 W/moC) between the layers. Assuming the inner surface temperature of the jacket to be 28oC and the surface area to be 1.1 m2, determine the rate of heat loss through the jacket when the temperature of the outdoors is 5oC and the heat transfer coefficient at the outer surface is 25 W/m2oC. What would your response be if the jacket is made of a single layer of 0.5-mm-thick synthetic fabric? What should be the thickness of a wool fabric (k = 0.035 W/moC) if the person is to achieve the same level of thermal comfort wearing a wool coat instead of a ski jacket? 4. The exposed surface ( x = 0) of a plane wall of thermal conductivity k is subjected to microwave radiation that causes volumetric heating to vary as: q( x) = q0 (1 x / L) where q0 is a constant. The boundary at x = L is perfectly insulated, while the exposed surface is maintained at a constant temperature T0. Determine the temperature distribution. 5. Consider an insulated pipe exposed to the atmosphere. Will the critical radius of insulation be greater on calm days or windy days? Why? 6. A 5-mm-thick spherical ball at 50oC is covered by a 1-mm-thick plastic insulation (k = 0.13 W/moC). The ball is exposed to a medium at 15oC, with a combined convection and radiation heat transfer coefficient of 20 W/m2 oC. Determine if the plastic insulation on the ball will help or hurt heat transfer from the ball.