MEHB323 Heat Transfer

Tutorial Assignment Set No. 7

1. Water enters a 2.5-cm internal diameter thin-walled copper tube of a heat exchanger at
15C at a rate of 0.3 kg/s, and is heated by steam condensing outside at 120C. Design the
length of the tube required in order to heat the water to 95C.
L = 4.66 m
2. Air ( = 1.1614 kg/m3, = 15.8910-6 m2/s, and Cp = 1007 J/kgC) enters a 20-cmdiameter, 12-m-long underwater pipe at 50C and a mean velocity of 7 m/s, and is cooled
by the water outside. If the average heat transfer coefficient is 85 W/m2K and the pipe
temperature is nearly equal to the water temperature of 5C, determine the exit temperature
of the air and the total heat loss from the air.
Tm,o = 8.72C

3. For an industrial application, a heating contractor must heat 0.2 kg/s of water from 15C
to 35C using hot gases in cross flow over a thin-walled (negligible thickness) plastic
tube. It is estimated that the velocity of the hot gas must be at least 30 m/s. The maximum
allowable surface temperature of the plastic pipe is 60C.

Figure 4
The constant properties of air and water are given in as below.
Parameter

(kg/m3)

cp (J/kgK)

(Ns/m2)

k (W/mK)

Pr

Air

1.16

1007

18.43 10-6

0.0263

0.69

Water

1000

4179

1080 10-6

0.6

7.56

In order to keep the average surface temperature of the pipe below 60C, you are
required to propose the following design parameters:
The pipe i.e. diameters and length,
The hot gas conditions i.e. the velocity and temperature.
No fixed answer.
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MEHB323 Heat Transfer

Tutorial Assignment Set No. 7
4. Hot air at atmospheric pressure and 85C enters a 10-m-long uninsulated circular duct with
diameter of 0.15 m that passes through the attic of a house at a rate of 0.1 m3/s. The duc
tis observed to be nearly isothermal at 70C. Determine the exit temperature of the air and
the rate of heat loss from the duct to the air space in the attic.
Tm,o = 75.84C
5. In order to cool a summer home without using a vapour compression refrigeration cycle,
air is routed through a plastic pipe (k = 0.15 W/mK, thickness, t = 0.05 m) that is
submerged in an adjoining body of water. The water temperature is nominally at
T 17 C , and a convection coefficient of ho 1500 W/m 2 K is maintained at the outer
surface of the pipe. Air from the home enters the pipe at a temperature of Tm, i 29 C and
0.025 m 3 /s . Design suitable pipe length L, Di, and Do
a volumetric flow rate of
i

needed to provide a discharge temperature of Tm, o 21 C .

properties of air are:
183.6 10 7 N s/m 2 ,

The thermo-physical

k 0.0261 W/m K, Pr 0.707, c p 1007 J/kg K, 1.155 kg/m 3

No fixed answer.

6. Water (w= 997 kg/m3, Cp,w = 4179 J/kgK, w = 85510-6 Ns/m2, kw = 0.613 W/mK,
and Prw = 5.83) enters a thin-walled (negligible thickness) tube of 10-mm diameter and
2-m length with mass flow rate m w = 0.2 kg/s and inlet mean temperature Tm,i = 47oC.

The tube is heated by passing air at T = 100oC and velocity V = 10 m/s in cross flow
over the tube. The properties of the cross flowing air are evaluated as air = 20.9210-6
m2/s, kair = 0.03 W/mK, Prair = 0.7. Determine the exit temperature of the water leaving
the tube and the total heat loss from the water as it passes through the tube.
Tm,o = 46.62C

7. Crude petroleum at a mean temperature of 20C is entering into a thin walled 200-m
long, 30-cm diameter pipe. The average velocity of the crude petroleum is 2 m/s. In a
harsh weather condition, the outside air temperature is measured to be -5C, which
maintained the outer surface temperature of the pipe at 0C. The thermo-physical
properties of crude petroleum are: = 888 kg/m3, k = 0.145 W/mK, = 90110-6 m2/s,
cp = 1880 J/kgK, and Pr = 10,400. Determine the temperature of the crude petroleum
when it leaves the pipe and heat loss to the ambient air.
Tm,o = 19.97C
q = 6665.59 W