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OCEAN ENGINEERING LAB REPORT

HEAT TRANSFER

AUTHOR: JOSE BETANCOURT

Lab Partners:
Corey Page
Isabella Pinos
Michael Perry
Ron

Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida


October 13th and 15th of 2015

Abstract
In this report, three different heat transfer experiments are performed. The first experiment consists of 4 bars
of different metals (2x brass, 1x aluminum and 1x stainless steel) which are heated by a common source, there
are two temperature sensors embedded in the bars which allow to take temperature readings at two different
points along the bar separated by a distance d, the rate of heat transfer by conduction in the four bars was
computed and compared to determine which material its a better conductor. The two brass bars differ in cross
section area and this allowed to identify the relation existing between the rate of heat transfer by conduction
and the area, we concluded that the values obtained for the rate of heat transfer support the accepted values of
thermal conductivity of the materials, that the rate of heat transfer is directly proportional to the cross section
area and that insulation material should be placed on top of the bars in order to prevent the heat from being
lost to the environment. The second experiment deals with the mechanism of convection, six cups filled with
hot water are being cooled down in different ways and temperatures are taken at regular intervals by means of
a digital thermometer, using this information it was possible to compare the effectiveness of every method in
cooling down the water inside the cups, we concluded that the effectiveness of the rate of heat transfer by
convection increases when a convective current is forced into the system (either so by blowing air unto the
surface of the fluid, or by stirring the fluid or both), we also concluded that this experiment can be used to
estimate the value of the convection coefficient h as long as there is not any insulating material on the cup
preventing the surrounding air to be in contact with the cup or the fluid. In the third experiment we sought to
build a device which allows us to measure the temperature using a thermocouple and adjusting its value by
means of a potentiometer, a current which value depends on the position of the potentiometer was forced
through a resistor to take advantage of the Joules effect to heat up the thermocouple, we concluded that it is
possible to satisfactory control the increase of temperature by this method but when the temperature needs to
be decreased we do not have any control on the rate of decay of the temperature.

Introduction
Heat has always been perceived to be something that produces in us a sensation of warmth,
and one would think that the nature of heat is one of the first things understood by mankind.
But it was only in the middle of the nineteenth century that we had a true physical
understanding of the nature of heat, thanks to the development at that time of the kinetic
theory, which treats molecules as tiny balls that are in motion and thus possess kinetic
energy. Heat is then defined as the energy associated with the random motion of atoms and
molecules
In 1701, Newton published (in Latin and anonymously) in the Phil. Trans. of the Royal
Society a short article (Scala graduum Caloris), in which he established a relationship
between the temperatures T and the time t in cooling processes. He did not write any
formula but expressed verbally his cooling law:
The excess of the degrees of the heat were in geometrical progression
when the times are in an arithmetical progression (by degree of heat

Newton meant what we now call temperature, so that excess of the


degrees of the heat means temperature difference). [1]
In the formulation of his law, Newton shows his confusion, which was normal in his days,
between heat and temperature. He spoke of heat loss and degree of heat and this means that
for him a loss of heat was always proportionally accompanied by a decrease of degree of
heat.
He wrote:
The heat which hot iron, in a determinate time, communicates to cold
bodies near it, that is, the heat which the iron loses in a certain time is as
the whole heat of the iron; and therefore (ideoque in Latin), if equal time
of cooling be taken, the degrees of heat will be in geometrical
proportion. [1]
Currently, Newtons cooling law is usually given in terms of heat flux q, i.e., the rate of
heat loss from a body q = dQ/dt:
Although it was suggested in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that heat is the
manifestation of motion at the molecular level (called the live force), the prevailing view
of heat until the middle of the nineteenth century was based on the caloric theory
proposed by the French chemist Antoine Lavoisier (17431794) in 1789. [2] The caloric
theory asserts that heat is a fluid-like substance called the caloric that is a massless,
colorless, odorless, and tasteless substance that can be poured from one body into another.
When caloric was added to a body, its temperature increased; and when caloric was
removed from a body, its temperature decreased. When a body could not contain any more
caloric, much the same way as when a glass of water could not dissolve any more salt or
sugar, the body was said to be saturated with caloric. This interpretation gave rise to the
terms saturated liquid and saturated vapor that are still in use today. The caloric
theory came under attack soon after its introduction. It maintained that heat is a substance
that could not be created or destroyed. Yet it was known that heat can be generated
indefinitely by rubbing ones hands together or rubbing two pieces of wood together. In
1798, the American Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) (17531814) showed in his

papers that heat can be generated continuously through friction. The validity of the caloric
theory was also challenged by several others. But it was the careful experiments of the
Englishman James P. Joule (18181889) published in 1843 that finally convinced the
skeptics that heat was not a substance after all, and thus put the caloric theory to rest.
Although the caloric theory was totally abandoned in the middle of the nineteenth century,
it contributed greatly to the development of thermodynamics and heat transfer. [2]
Background
Heat Transfer
Heat can be transferred in three different modes: conduction, convection, and radiation. All
modes of heat transfer require the existence of a temperature difference, and all modes are
from the high-temperature medium to a lower-temperature one [2].
Conduction is the transfer of energy from the more energetic particles of a substance to the
adjacent less energetic ones as a result of interactions between the particles. Conduction can
take place in solids, liquids, or gases. In gases and liquids, conduction is due to the
collisions and diffusion of the molecules during their random motion. In solids, it is due to
the combination of vibrations of the molecules in a lattice and the energy transport by free
electrons.
The rate of heat conduction through a medium depends on the geometry of the medium, its
thickness, and the material of the medium, as well as the temperature difference across the
medium.
Consider steady heat conduction through a large plane wall of thickness Dx= L and area A.
The temperature difference across the wall is DT= T2-T1. Experiments have shown that the
rate of heat transfer Q through the wall is doubled when the temperature difference DT
across the wall or the area A normal to the direction of heat transfer is doubled, but is
halved when the wall thickness L is doubled. Thus we conclude that the rate of heat
conduction through a plane layer is proportional to the temperature difference across the
layer and the heat transfer area, but is inversely proportional to the thickness of the layer.

Figure 1: Heat transfer by conduction through a wall

Qcond=kA

T 1T 2
x

Where the constant of proportionality k is the thermal conductivity of the material, which is
a measure of the ability of a material to conduct heat, a high value for thermal conductivity
indicates that the material is a good heat conductor, and a low value indicates that the
material is a poor heat conductor or insulator
In the limiting case of Dx 0, the equation above reduces to the differential form.
Qcond=kA

dT
dx

Here dT/dx is the temperature gradient, which is the slope of the temperature curve on a T-x
diagram (the rate of change of T with x), at location x. The heat transfer area A is always
normal to the direction of heat transfer.
The kinetic theory of gases predicts and the experiments confirm that the thermal
conductivity of gases is proportional to the square root of the absolute temperature T, and
inversely proportional to the square root of the molar mass M. Therefore, the thermal
conductivity of a gas increases with increasing temperature and decreasing molar mass.
Convection is the mode of energy transfer between a solid surface and the adjacent liquid
or gas that is in motion, and it involves the combined effects of conduction and fluid
motion. The faster the fluid motion, the greater the convection heat transfer. In the absence

of any bulk fluid motion, heat transfer between a solid surface and the adjacent fluid is by
pure conduction. The presence of bulk motion of the fluid enhances the heat transfer
between the solid surface and the fluid, but it also complicates the determination of heat
transfer rates.
Consider the cooling of a hot block by blowing cool air over its top surface as shown in
Figure 2. Energy is first transferred to the air layer adjacent to the block by conduction.
This energy is then carried away from the surface by convection, that is, by the combined
effects of conduction within the air that is due to random motion of air molecules and the
bulk or macroscopic motion of the air that removes the heated air near the surface and
replaces it by the cooler air. Convection is called forced convection if the fluid is forced to
flow over the surface by external means such as a fan, pump, or the wind. In contrast,
convection is called natural (or free) convection if the fluid motion is caused by buoyancy
forces that are induced by density differences due to the variation of temperature in the
fluid

Figure 2: Cooling of a hot block

Despite the complexity of convection, the rate of convection heat transfer is


observed to be proportional to the temperature difference, and is conveniently expressed by
Newtons law of cooling as

Q=h
A s (T sT )

Where h is the convection heat transfer coefficient in W/m2 C or Btu/h ft2 F, As


is the surface area through which convection heat transfer takes place, Ts is the surface
temperature, and T_ is the temperature of the fluid sufficiently far from the surface. Note
that at the surface, the fluid temperature equals the Surface temperature of the solid.
The convection heat transfer coefficient h is not a property of the fluid. It is an
experimentally determined parameter whose value depends on all the variables influencing
convection such as the surface geometry, the nature of fluid motion, the properties of the
fluid, and the bulk fluid velocity.
Radiation is the energy emitted by matter in the form of electromagnetic waves (or
photons) as a result of the changes in the electronic configurations of the atoms or
molecules. Unlike conduction and convection, the transfer of energy by radiation does not
require the presence of an intervening medium. In fact, energy transfer by radiation is
fastest (at the speed of light) and it suffers no attenuation in a vacuum. This is how the
energy of the sun reaches the earth. Fort the purposes of this experiment, heat transfer
through radiation will not be considered.
PID Controller
The PID controller is the most common form of feedback. It was an essential element of
early governors and it became the standard tool when process control emerged in the 1940s.
In process control today, more than 95% of the control loops are of PID type, most loops
are actually PI control. PID controllers are today found in all areas where control is used.
The controllers come in many different forms. There are stand-alone systems in boxes for
one or a few loops, which are manufactured by the hundred thousands yearly. PID control
is an important ingredient of a distributed control system. The controllers are also
embedded in many special-purpose control systems. PID control is often combined with
logic, sequential functions, selectors, and simple function blocks to build the complicated
automation systems used for energy production, transportation, and manufacturing. Many
sophisticated control strategies, such as model predictive control, are also organized
hierarchically. PID control is used at the lowest level; the multivariable controller gives the
setpoints to the controllers at the lower level. The PID controller can thus be said to be the
bread and butter of control engineering [3].

Proportional control is illustrated in Figure 3. The figure shows that there is always a steady
state error in proportional control. The error will decrease with increasing gain, but the
tendency towards oscillation will also increase. Figure 4 illustrates the effects of adding
integral. The figure shows that the steady state error disappears when integral action is
used.

Figure 3: Effect of proportional control

Figure 4: Effects of the addition of integral

Objective of the experiments


In this report, 3 different heat transfer experiments will be addressed, one demonstrating the
behavior of the conduction mechanism of heat transfer, one on convection, and a practical
situation where reading the temperature and adjusting a variable to control the temperature
will be required. The way this report is structured addresses first the materials and methods
utilized during the realization of the experiments, the results obtained, a brief discussion of

the results and conclusions and its organized in sequence so that all the sections of one
experiment are shown before moving on to the next experiment.
The objective of this lab its to study the behavior of two of the mechanisms of heat transfer
(conduction and convection), how the cross section area is related to the rate of heat
transfer in conduction and how a convective current on a fluid can improve the rate of heat
transfer.

Heat Bar Experiment (Conduction)


Materials and methods
Equipment List
In order to perform this experiment the fallowing equipment has been provided:
Pasco Xplorer GLX PS-2002
Pasco Xplorer 12v DC Power Transformer
Pasco Heat Conduction Apparatus TD-8513
Pasco PasPort PS-2157
Power Supply Cable
15V DC 2A Power Supply
Digital Camera
Digital Chronometer
Digital Caliper
Equipment Description
The Heat Conduction Apparatus has 4 bars with 8 temperature sensors embedded in the
bars and designated by the numbers from T1 to T8, two sensors in every bar. The material
properties of the bars were obtained from the manufacturers website and are shown below
in Table 1.
Table 1
Material properties of the bars [1]

Bars were measured using a digital caliper once the experiment concluded. The dimensions
are shown in Table 2.

Table 2
Dimensions of the bars of the Heat Conduction Apparatus

Bar
Aluminum
Wide Brass
Narrow Brass
Stainless Steel

Width (mm)
11.8 +/- 0.1
11.7 +/- 0.1
7.9 +/- 0.1
11.9 +/- 0.1

Length (mm)
87.4 +/- 0.1
87.4 +/- 0.1
88.8 +/- 0.1
88.8 +/- 0.1

The location of the sensors is listed below in reference to the bar where they are embedded
and the position respect to the heat sink located at the center of the board.
T1= wide brass (far)
T2= wide brass (close)
T3= narrow brass (close)
T4= narrow brass (far)
T5= wide Aluminum (far)
T6=wide Aluminum (close)
T7=wide Stainless Steel (close)
T8= wide Stainless Steel (far)

Experiment Setup
All connections were done prior to the beginning of the experiment as shown in Figure 5.
Pasco Xplorer was connected to the power source which was set to 6V and to the Heat
Conduction Apparatus,

Figure 5: Xplorer GLX and Power Source

Figure 6: Heat Conduction Apparatus

The machine was set to the Cool position during 5 minutes and the temperatures of every
sensor were recorded (See Table 3)
Table 3
Stable Temperature of Sensors

Sensor
Temp(C)

T1
26.54

T2
26.35

T3
25.96

T4
26.38

T5
25.70

T6
26.80

T7
26.68

T8
25.81

The machine was switched from the cool position to the heat position and temperature
reading for every sensor were taken approximately every 30 seconds during the following
10 minutes by using a digital camera to capture the readings from the Xplorer GLX, the
time can be read on the screen of the Xplorer as well. The readings have been plotted vs
time for every bar by using Matlab and can be seen in Figure 7.

Results

Figure 7: Graph of Sensor Temperature vs Time for every bar

Discussion
As expected, the temperature raises first at the sensor that is closer to the heat sink, and
after some time, the temperature at the sensor farther apart from the heat sink reaches the
value attained by the first sensor. This illustrates how the heat flows from the warmer
section of the body to the coldest.
Notice the behavior of the temperature in both sensors for every material; in the graph
corresponding to the Aluminum bar, the temperature of the farther sensor gets very close to
the temperature of the closer sensor, this means that the difference in temperature between
these two points of the bar is very small compared to the other materials, so the aluminum
would have values of temperature very close to each other along the bar, compared to the
other bars.
Doing the same analysis for the steel bar, it can be observed that the temperature in the
farther sensor its distant from the temperature of the closer sensor, indeed, if we examined
the data from Error: Reference source not found it can be observed that the DT of sensors
T7 and T8 increases with time, meaning that the temperatures at these points get farther
apart from each other as time passes. As for the Brass bar, it exhibits a behavior between

Aluminum and Steel, both temperatures being close to each other at the beginning but then
start to separate as time passes.
Two Brass bars of different cross sectional area.
Heat transfer by conduction between two points of a solid body can be determined by the
equation:
kA (T 2T 1)
Q=
d

Where:

Q
=Its the rate of heat transfer (watts)
k= thermal conductivity of the material (w/mK)
T2 and T1= temperature of two points in the same body (K)
A= area of the section perpendicular to the heat flow (m2)
d= distance between point 1 and point 2
The temperature data collected from the wide brass bar and the narrow brass bar can be
used to examine the behavior of the heat transfer as a function of the cross sectional area.
The rate of heat transfer has been calculated and plotted vs time for both bars in Figure 8.

Figure 8: Comparison of Heat Transfer in the wide and narrow brass bars

From Figure 8, two remarkable aspects can be pointed out.


1- The greater the cross sectional area, the greater the rate of heat transfer by
conduction.
2- The rate of heat transfer shows a similar behavior in both bars.
Observing the behavior of both plots, the curve representing the rate of heat transfer of the
wide bar (Qw) seems to be the same curve of the narrow bar (Qn) multiplied by some
factor. If the curve corresponding to Qw is actually proportional to Qn, then the quotient of
both at every data point should be the same constant value at every data point, or at least
very close to each other, proving that one curve is proportional to the other.
In order to demonstrate the validity of this hypothesis, the quotient of Qw/Qn has been
performed and plotted for every data point obtaining the results shown in Figure 9.

Figure 9: t Vs Qw/Qn

If we compute the mean and standard deviation of these values, we obtain:


x =1.5227
s=0.044

Now, if the above hypothesis its true, we could predict the behavior of Qw by multiplying
Qn times

x .

Figure 10: Qw actual Vs Qw predicted

Figure 11: Comparison of the actual and predicted Qw

Computing the mean error of the predicted values results in an error of 2%.
Consider now Qw is the rate of heat transfer of the wide bar and Qn is the rate of heat
transfer of the narrow bar. The quotient of both is given by:
k A w (T 2T 1)w

Qw
dw
=
n k A n (T 2T 1)n
Q
dn
Since both bars are of the same material, the points corresponding to T1 and T2 are spaced
the same distance in both bars (dw = dn), the equation can be simplified as follows:
w A w (T 2T 1)w
Q
=
.
n An (T 2T 1)n
Q
Where the sub-index w corresponds to the wide bar, and n corresponds to the narrow bar.
Computing the quotient of DT of both bars from the collected data, it can be seen that its
value at every instant is approximately 1 (See Figure 12), which allows us to state the
following relation.

w Aw
Q
=
n An
Q

This means that the factor previously calculated x=1.5227 its actually the area ratio of the
two bars. If we compute the area ratio out of the known dimensions of the bars we obtain:
A w ( 3.5 0.1 )(11.7 0.1)
A
=
=1.4 < w <1.6
A n ( 3.5 0.1 )(7.9 0.1)
An
And the value of x=1.5 lies in the expected interval of area ratio.
Now concerning the thermal conductivity of the three materials used in this experiment
shown in Table 1, where: k of aluminum = 150, k of brass = 115 and k of Stainless Steel =
14, we expect that aluminum shows a more effective conduction of heat than brass, and
brass would exhibit a more effective conduction of heat than steel. This assumption is
confirmed by the experimental data obtained since the temperature in both sensors of the
aluminum bar remain very close to each other. Brass exhibits a behavior similar to the
aluminum but with bigger differences between the temperature of both sensors, while the
temperatures in the sensors of stainless steel trend to separate from each other with time.
Two problems on heat transfer
1- What would be the volume of the ice cube you would need to bring a 500 mL cup of
coffee from 80 C down to 60C if the ice cube is 0C?
Assuming that the coffee is mostly water, the properties of water will be used to represent
those of coffee, we will assume that the heat transfer to the surroundings is negligible.
Energy lost by the coffee = Energy gained by ice (Conservation of energy)

[ .V . c p .( T f T i)]coffee =[ . V . c p .(T f T i )]ice


V ice =

[ .V . c p .(T f T i) ]coffee

[ . c p .(T f T i )]ice


V ice =

1g
4.186 kJ
.500 mL .
. ( 6080 ) K
mL
kgK
coffee
=361 mL
0.9167 g 2.108 kJ
.
. ( 600 ) K
mL
kgK
ice

2- If you have a 200mW heat source inside a sealed container that is completely
insulated against any transfer of heat, what is the maximum temperature that will be
reached in the box after a very long time?

Conclusions
Given the evidence pointed above, we can conclude that the ratio of heat transferred by
conduction of two bodies of the same material and constant cross section its equal to the
ratio of the cross section area of the two bodies as long as they share the same heat source
and the effects of other mechanisms of heat transfer upon the system can be neglected or
assumed to be equal for both bodies.

Figure 12: DTw/DTn

Some errors during the realization of this experiment would include the absence of an
insulating material on the bars to ensure a purely conductive behavior of the bars. Since the
bars were exposed to the ambient air, part of the heat was lost to the ambient which could
have altered the measurements taken.

Coffee cup station (1st attempt)


Materials list
Large Coffee Maker
6 coffee cups with lids
1 Cup insulating sleeve
Stirring sticks
1 Digital Thermometer
Experiment Setup and procedure
The coffee carafe was filled with water and poured into the coffee maker, in the meantime,
the six coffee cups were identified by letters using a marker to write on them and were set
in different configurations as shown in Figure 13. The description of the cups is as follows:
A=Lid on with insulating jacket
B=Lid on
C=No lid
D= No lid and blown on
E=No lid and stirred with a stick constantly
F= No lid and stirred with stick constantly and blown on

Figure 13: Set up of the coffee station experiment

Six different timers were set, one for each coffee cup, then the hot water was poured in
every cup at a depth of 57.7 mm into each cup. The digital thermometer was introduced in

the first cup and once the reading was stable, the timer corresponding to that cup was
started, the same procedure was repeated for all six cups, every member of the team was
responsible for setting the timer corresponding to that cup, and blowing/stirring depending
on the case. Readings were taken during 10 minutes for every cup and were recorded on a
table (time and temperature, see Figure 14). Once the 10 minutes had passed, one of the
cups was measured using a caliper and the following dimensions were obtained.
Diameter on top= 3 in
Diameter on the bottom= 2 in
Wall thickness= 1/16 in
Height of the cup= 4 1/8in
Also the temperature of the room was measured using the same thermometer of the
experiment and it was found to be 77 F.

Figure 14: cup E being stirred as the temperature is read

Results

Figure 15: Temperature measurements of coffee cup experiment, first attempt

Discussion
The data obtained from this experiment shows a very erratic behavior, there are peaks of
temperature that raise above the previous values of temperature for the same cup, this can
be observed in the graph of Figure 15, the curve corresponding to No lid and blown
descends until a value of 62 Celsius and then increases to a value of 66.6 Celsius in the next
reading, as if heat was being input to the system (which was not the case). A similar
situation is notice on the purple line corresponding to the No Lid and blown scenario.
This untypical behavior of the results could be due to the fact that the same thermometer
was being used to measure the temperature of all six cups, so by the moment the
thermometer is put in the next cup, it is already hot given it was already put into another
cup whose temperature could be higher or lower, and if not enough time is allowed for the
temperature to stabilize, the reading would be inaccurate, also, the time limitations to do the
experiment didnt allow to take enough readings to create a more reliable database.
Given the unreliability of this data, it was decided to redo the experiment doing some small
modifications to the procedure.
Coffee cup station (2nd attempt)
Materials list
1 coffee cup

1 lid
1 stirring stick
1 timer
1 Digital Thermometer
1 Coffee Maker
1 Cup insulating jacket

Figure 16: first coffee cup (lid on and insulating sleeve)

Figure 17: Digital thermometer

Experiment Setup and procedure


Before the beginning of the experiment, the air conditioner of the room was shut down so
that it will not affect the measurements when the a/c turns on.
One coffee cup was set at the time as follows:

1st Lid on and insulating sleeve (A)


2nd Lid on (B)
3rd No Lid (C)
4th No Lid and blown (D)
5th No lid and stirred (E)
6th No lid and stirred and blown (F)
Hot water was poured into the cup, the digital thermometer was introduced in the cup and
once the reading was stable the timer was started, taking readings every 30 seconds during
the following 10 minutes and recording the data in a table, the same procedure was repeated
for every setup until complete the 6 different configurations.
Results

Figure 18: Temperature readings from the different coffee cups

Discussion
Given the six configurations discussed above, we wanted to compere how the heat transfer
increases or decreases in every situation compared to the cup that only has a lid.
Since the hot water is surrounded by a fluid media (air) and there is a difference in
temperature between the water and the air, we know that we are dealing with a situation of

heat transfer by convection [2], so we can apply Newtons cooling law to address the
problem of finding the rate of heat transfer. Recalling the formula of heat transfer by
convection:
dQ
=hA (T sT )
dt
and
dQ=m c p dT
Substituting we have
mc p

dT
=hA (T sT )
dt

dT hA
=
(T T )
dt mc p s

Since the term

hA
mc p

is a constant, we can call it k which yields:

dT
=k ( T s T )
dt
Solving the differential equation we obtain:
T s=T +(T iT ) ekt
Were Ts is the temperature of the surface at the instant t and Ti is the initial temperature of
the surface. Since in our experiment the value of temperature of the water is known at every
instant, it is possible to solve for the constant k of every configuration.
Solving for k results

ln
k=

T iT
T sT

Calculating the k at every instant for every configuration and computing the mean and
corresponding standard deviation using Matlab, the mean value of k for every case was
obtained.
Table 4:
Value of constant k for every situation

Cup
A
B
C
D
E
F

k
0.0002
0.0002
0.0005
0.0012
0.0006
0.0015

std
0.0001
0.0001
0.0001
0.0003
0.0001
0.0004

If we predict the values of temperature based on the obtained k using the equation
T s=T +(T iT ) ekt

and plot the predicted values and the actual experimental values

vs time we obtain the following graph.

Figure 19: Actual vs Predicted values

From Figure 19 it can be noticed that the predicted value its very close to measured values
when the situation its primarily convective (i.e. stirring, blowing, blowing and stirring).
And its more inaccurate when insulators are added to the system (Lid and jacket, and just
Lid).
Now it is possible to determine the h for every configuration:
h=

mk c p
A

Where m is the mass of water, A is the area of convection and cp is the specific heat of the
water. So in conclusion, this experiment setup its an accurate way to estimate the value of
the convection coefficient as long as the convection is the predominant mechanism of heat
transfer and the effects of radiation and conduction can be neglected.
The error found from case 1 and case 2 its due to the considerable effect of the insulators,
for example, when the cup is covered with the lid, the heat its transferred first to the air
inside the cup and then its transferred by conduction through the lid to the environment,
where finally the heat is dissipated by natural convection.

Table 5:
Convection area, h and comparison of rate of heat transfer
Convection Area
h
(Q- QB )/QB*100

Cup

(m2)

A
B
C
D
E
F

0.0059
0.0183
0.0229
0.0229
0.0229
0.0229

0.0377
0.0165
0.028
0.0682
0.0332
0.0834

-26.9%
0
112.6%
416.8%
151.3%
532.1%

Referring to Table 5, the area of convection changes in every situation knowing that this
area its the one in contact with the surroundings, in this case we havent considered the
variations in temperature at the wall of the cup due to the thermal conductivity of the

material of the cup, so in cup A (jacket and Lid), the area of convection its just the portion
of area of the level of liquid that raises above the insulating jacket, since the surface of the
liquid itself its not in contact with the surroundings provided the lid is on, on the other
hand one the lid and jacket are removed, this increases the area of the convection since now
the wall area in contact with the liquid its exposed to the ambient and the surface area of
the liquid its also exposed. Surprisingly the coefficient h in case A its greater than the one
in case B (no jacket), but the product hA its smaller, this is what makes the rate of heat
transfer in situation A being smaller than B

Figure 20: Comparison of the rate of heat transfer vs time

Thermocouple Experiment
Materials List
1 Arduino Due OE Lab Board
1 OE Lab Board power adapter
1 Dell Laptop
1 Dell Laptop power adapter
Arduino software on the laptop
DataPlot3 software on the laptop
1 micro USB-serial cable
1 type K Thermocouple with 45 cm leads
1 Short solid 22ga wire stripped 5 mm on each end
Transistor Unit

11.3 Heat Resistor


1 Clothes pin

Experiment setup and procedure


The laptop and OE lab board were plugged into the wall, and the USB cable was connected
from the OE lab Board USB port named PROG USG to the Laptop, then the yellow wire of
the thermocouple was inserted in the pin +BRG on jumper J3, the other wire of the
thermocouple was inserted in pin BRG with a short jumper cable connected to the ground
pin, then the alligator wire was connected to a ground pin on J3 as shown in Figure 21.

Thermocouple
Alligator wire

Jumper wire
Yellow wire of
thermocouple

J3
Figure 21: Connection of the thermocouple and jumper cable to the OE lab Board

Now the resistor end of the transistor unit was attached to pin D/P 8 on the board and the
black alligator clip was attached to one of the leads of the heater resistor (Figure 23)
Transistor unit

Transistor
units resistor

Figure 22: Connection of the transistors unit resistor

Heater resistor

Alligator clip
coming from
ground

Thermocouple

Alligator
coming from
transistor
unit

Figure 23: Connection of the heater resistor

The red alligator clip from the transistor unit was then connected to the fuse on the OE lab
Board as shown in Figure 24, and the thermocouple was held in contact with the heater
resistor using the clothes pin (Figure 23).

Transistors
Alligator clip
connected to fuse

Figure 24: Transistor unit connected to fuse

The main idea of this experiment its to prove that it is possible to adjust the temperature of
a room, boiler, tank, etc, by moving a potentiometer to a different location, which controls
the intensity of current that passes through a heater resistor. The thermocouple in contact
with the heater resistor provides the data read by the board which is converted in the code

to a value of temperature, also the position of the potentiometer is read and written to the
current to increase, stop or decrease the intensity depending on the case, the readings were
collected through the Arduinos serial monitor and pasted into a new text document for
storage and further analysis.
Results

Figure 25: Temperature and potentiometer position vs time

Discussion
Commented code used in the lab:
// set up global scope variables for the moving average calculation
int i_dataPosition =0;//initialize variable
float a_f_Readings[500];
void setup(){
Serial.begin(9600);// initialize serial comunication at 9600 bauds
analogReadResolution(12);//set resolution on analog read to 12
pinMode(8,OUTPUT);// declare pin number 8 as an output
}
void loop(){ //start loop
// Read the voltage at the thermocouple amplified input
int sensorValue=analogRead(A6);
//Convert it to volts with zero referenced to the zero point of the amplifier
float f_TC_Volts=((((float(sensorValue)-2034.839/4095.0)*2.97)/99.0); //2034 is center of bridge
input.
//Read the voltage at the temperature sensor input
int tempValue=analogRead(A7);
//convert the DAQ reading into a value in degrees Celsius
float f_CJ_Temp=((float(tempValue)/4095.0)*2.97)-0.5849;
f_CJ_Temp=(f_CJ_Temp/0.00625);// in degrees Celsius

// Extremely simplified Thermocouple formula


float f_Temp=(24.375*f_TC_Volts*1000.0)+0.438+f_CJ_Temp;
// Use a moving average
//Set one element in the array to the current reading
a_f_Readings[i_dataPosition]=f_Temp;
//Get total of the reading
float f_TempTotal=0;
for(int i_count=0; i_count<500; i_count++){
f_TempTotal+=a_f_Readings[i_count];
}
//increment the array position
i_dataPosition++;
//loop the array back to the start when it overruns
if(i_dataPosition>499)i_dataPosition=0;
f_TempTotal=f_TempTotal/500.0;
float f_setPoint=analogRead(A9);// read voltage from potentiometer
f_setPoint=20.0*(f_setPoint/4096.0)+35.0;// convert voltage into a scaled value
Serial.print(f_TempTotal,3);// print temperature to serial monitor
Serial.print(",");
Serial.println(f_setPoint,3);// print potentiometer's position to serial monitor
float f_outputpower=(f_setPoint-f_TempTotal)*10.0; // Proportional control statement
int i_Out = constrain(f_outputpower+((f_setPoint-35.0)*3.7),0.0,255.0);
analogWrite(8,i_Out);// Takes a vulue between 0 and 255 to heat the resistor
delay(10); // wait 10 ms

The oscillations exhibited by the temperature are typical of a proportional control such as
the one that has been implemented in the code, according to [3], this error can be eliminated
by the implementation of an integral control which will eliminate the steady state error
derived from the proportional control.
In Figure 25 it can be seen that a variation on the position of the potentiometer has a direct
effect on the temperature read by the thermocouple, this happens because when the position
of the potentiometer its changed, its voltage its read by the microcontroller board and used
to write a new value of voltage on the output pin connected to the resistor which will
produce a variation on the current that passes through the resistor. Here we take advantage
of Joules effect to generate heat in the resistor and heat up the thermocouple. However,
when the temperature needs to be reduced to the minimum, the only thing that can be done
its to stop the current going to the resistor and let it cool down by convection, which
implies that we lack control on the cooling process.

After the discussion shown above we can conclude that an integral control loop its
necessary to reduce the oscillations of the readings derived from the use of a proportional
control, however the desired effect was achieved and this method represents a simple way
to address the problem of temperature control. This methodology provides effective control
on the increase of temperature, but the cooling process will depend on the surroundings of
the system, since the resistor will cool down by convection and conduction if it is in contact
with another body, and not because of the effect of a control variable.

Works Cited

[1] U. Besson, The History of Cooling Law: When the search for simplicity can be an
obstacle, Pavia, Italy: Springer, 2010.
[2] Y. Cengel, Heat and mass transfer, 2nd edition, Reno: McGraw Hill, 2007.
[3] K. J. Astrom, Control System Design, 2002.
[4] "pasco.com," 07 11 2015. [Online]. Available: www.pasco.com/prodCatalog/TD/TD8513_heat-conduction-apparatus.

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