ASSIGNMENT 5 BMM3513_1617/II

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FACULTY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

BMM3513 HEAT TRANSFER
Assignment 5 (CO5)
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Question 1

En. Karim recently bought a heat exchanger for his metal factory. The heat exchanger is a cross-flow
type which has cross section size of 1 m X 1 m. En. Karim assigned you to calculate the effectiveness
of the heat exchanger. As an engineer, you decided to do the analysis based on section by section.
One section of the heat exchanger duct consists 3 cm diameter of 80 tubes. Cold water (cp = 4180
J/kg.K) enters the tube at 18oC. The average velocity of the cold water is 3 m/s. Meanwhile, hot air
(cp = 1010 J/kg.K) enters the section at 130oC and 105 kPa. The velocity of the hot air is 12 m/s and
air constant, R is 0.287 kJ/kg.K. If the overall heat transfer coefficient is 130 W/m2.K, determine

i. the mass flow rates of both cold water and hot air, (3 Marks)

ii. the rate of heat transfer, (7 Marks)

iii. the effectiveness of the heat exchanger (NTU method), (4 Marks)

iv. the actual rate of heat transfer, and (2 Marks)

v. the outlet temperatures of both cold water and hot air. (4 Marks)
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Question 2

En. Karim recently install a hot water system operates by a solar energy. The system consists of
double pipe counter flow heat exchanger. Cold waters enters a tube at 22oC at a rate of 0.1 kg/s,
while hot air enters the heat exchanger at 90oC at a rate of 0.3 kg/s. The specific heat for both cold
water and hot air is cp = 4180 J/kg.K and cp = 1010 J/kg.K , respectively. The overall heat transfer
coefficient based on the inner side of the tube is 80 W/m2.K. The length of the tube is 12 m and the
internal diameter of the tube is 1.2 cm. En. Karim assigned you do the complete analysis on this hot
water system including to calculate the effectiveness of the heat exchanger. As an engineer, you have
to determine:

i. the heat capacity rates of both fluids, (3 Marks)

ii. the maximum rate of heat transfer (kW), (7 Marks)

iii. the effectiveness of the heat exchanger (NTU method), (4 Marks)

iv. the actual rate of heat transfer (kW), and (2 Marks)

v. the outlet temperatures of both cold water and hot air. (4 Marks)
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Question 3

An industrial company recently installed a hot water system operates by hot geothermal water. The
geothermal water (Cp = 4250 J/kgC) at 95C is to be used to heat fresh water (Cp = 4180 J/kgC)
at 12C at a rate of 1.2 kg/s in a double-pipe counter-flow heat exchanger. The heat transfer surface
area is 25 m2, the overall heat transfer coefficient is 480 W/m2C, the effectiveness of the heat
exchanger is desired to be 0.823, and the mass flow rate of geothermal water is larger than that of
fresh water. The company assigned you to do the complete analysis on this hot water system. As an
engineer,

i. calculate mass flow rate of geothermal water (kg/s), (8 Marks)

ii. estimate the maximum rate of heat transfer (kW), (3 Marks)

i. calculate the actual rate of heat transfer (kW), and (3 Marks)

ii. determine the outlet temperatures of both fluids. (6 Marks)

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Question 4

A thin-walled double pipe, counter-flow heat exchanger is to be used to cool oil (cp = 2.2 kJ/kg.oC)
from 150 oC to 40 oC at a rate of 2.3 kg/s by water (cp = 4.18 kJ/kg.oC) that enters at 20 oC at a rate of
1.4 kg/s. The diameter of the tube is 13 cm and its length is 60 m. Determine the overall heat transfer
coefficient of this heat exchanger using;

vi. logarithmic mean temperature difference LMTD method, and (10 Marks)

vii. NTU method. (10 Marks)