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Practice Paper-I Heat Transfer

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Q. 1 - Q. 5 carry one mark each.
Q.1 A classroom that normally contains 40 people is to be air-conditioned using window
air conditioning units of 5kW cooling capacity. A person at rest may be assumed to dis-
sipate heat at a rate of 360 / kJ h. There are 10 light bulbs in the room, each with a rating
of 10 W 0 . The rate of heat transfer to the classroom through the walls and the windows is
estimated to be 15000 / kJ h. If the room air is to be maintained at a constant temperature
of 21 C c , the number of window air-conditioning units required, is
(A) 2 (B) 3
(C) 1 (D) 4
Q.2 Consider a medium in which the heat conduction equation is given in its simplest form
as

r dr
d
rk
dr
dT
Q
1
gen
+
o
b l 0 =
(1) Heat transfer is transient.
(2) Heat transfer is two dimensional.
(3) There is heat generation in the medium.
(4) The thermal conductivity of the medium is variable.
Which of the above statement is/ are correct ?
(A) 1 and 3 (B) 2 and 4
(C) 1 and 2 (D) 3 and 4
Q.3 A 6m diameter spherical tank is filled with liquid oxygen at 184 C c - . The tank is
thin shelled and its temperature can be taken to be the same as the oxygen temperature.
The tank is insulated with 5cm thick super insulation that has an effective thermal con-
ductivity of 0.00015 / W m C c
-
. If the tank is exposed to ambient air at 15 C c with a heat
transfer coefficient of 14 / W m C
2
c
-
, the rate of heat transfer to the tank is
(A) 11W
(B) 29W
(C) 57W
(D) 68W
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Q.4 The Biot number can be thought of as the ratio of
(A) the conduction thermal resistance to the convective thermal resistance.
(B) the convective thermal resistance to the conduction thermal resistance.
(C) The thermal energy storage capacity to the conduction thermal resistance.
(D) The thermal energy storage capacity to the convection thermal resistance.
Q.5 Air at 363K and atm 1 flows over a flat plate at a velocity of / m s 30 . If air has
2.13 10 / sec kg m
5
m
#
-
=
-
, how thick will be the boundary layer at a distance of . cm 25
from the leading edge of the plate ?
(A) 0.470mm (B) 0.783mm
(C) .626mm 0 (D) 0.892mm
Q. 6 - Q. 15 carry two marks each.
Q.6 Consider a tube of 5cm outer diameter whose walls are maintained at a temperature
of 180 C c . Circular aluminum alloy fins 186 / W m C k c
-
= ^ h of outer diameter 6cm and
constant thickness 1mm with 97% efficiency, are attached to the tube as shown in Fig.
The space between the fins is 3mm and thus there are 250 fins per meter length of the
tube. Heat is transferred to the surrounding air at 25 C T c =
3
, with a heat transfer coef-
ficient of 40 / W m C
2
c
-
. What will be the increase in heat transfer from the tube per meter
of its length as a result of adding fins ?
(A) 2639W (B) 2112W
(C) 3959W (D) 3404W
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Q.7 Consider 3cm thick large brass plates whose properties are 110 / W m C k c
-
= ,
8530 / kg m
3
r = , 380 / J kg C c
p
c
-
= and 33.9 10 / m s
6 2
a
#
=
-
. Initially, plates are at a uni-
form temperature of 25 C c and then heated by passing them through an oven maintained
at 700 C c . The plates remain in the oven for a period of 10 min. If the convection heat
transfer coefficient is 80 / W m C h
2
c
-
= , what will be the surface temperature of the plates
when they come out of the oven ?
(A) 620 C c (B) 380 C c
(C) 448 C c (D) 537 C c
Q.8 Three infinitely long parallel plates are arranged as shown in figure. The plates 1 and
3 are maintained at 1200K and 300K, respectively. The emissivities of the three plates are
. 02
1
e = . 05
2
e = and . 08
3
e = . If the plate 2 received no heat from external sources, what
will the temperature of plate 2 ?
(A) K 300 (B) K 900
(C) 869K (D) K 750
Q.9 A stream of hydrocarbon ( 2.2 / kJ kg K c
p
-
= ) flows at a rate of 720 / kg h in the tube
side of a double-pipe counter-flow heat exchanger. Water ( 4.18 / kJ kg K c
p
-
= ) enters the
heat exchanger at 10 C c at a rate of 540 / kg h in the shell side of heat exchanger. The out-
side diameter of the inner tube is 2.5cm and its length is 6.0m. If hydrocarbon is cooled
from 150 C c to C 40c , the overall heat transfer coefficient will be
(A) 2. / kW m K 66
2
-
(B) 2.31 / kW m K
2
-
(C) 2. / kW m K 89
2
-
(D) . / kW m K 312
2
-
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Q.10 During open heart surgery, the patients blood ( 3.5 / kJ kg K c
p
-
= ) is cooled before
the surgery and rewarmed afterward. For this propose a concentric tube, counter-flow heat
exchanger of length 0.5m is used, with the thin-walled inner tube of 55mm diameter. The
overall heat transfer coefficient is 500 / W m K
2
-
. If water ( . / kJ kg K c 4183
p
-
= ) at 60 C c and
0.10 / kg s is used to heat blood entering the exchanger at 18 C c and 0.05 / kg s, what will
be the temperature of the blood leaving the exchanger ?
(A) C 42c (B) .8 C 30 c
(C) 6. C 3 2c (D)
Q.11 Nitrogen at 1atm, K 300 with 0.03 / W m C k 18 c
-
= , . 10 / m s 2069
6 2
n
#
=
-
and
0.70 Pr = , blows across a horizontal flat plate of size 60 30 cm cm
#
at a velocity of
/ m s 33 . The plate has a constant surface temperature of K 400 . If the longer dimension is
in the direction of flow, the heat lost by the plate will be
(A) 1171W (B) 1756W
(C) 2186W (D) 2576W
Numerical Answer Questions
Q.12 A large plane wall has a thickness 0.4m L = and thermal conductivity 8.4 / W m C k c
-
=
. The thermal conditions on the inner side of the wall at x 0 = are not known. However,
the outer surface of the wall at x L = , has a emissivity . 07 e = and exchange heat by
convection with ambient air at 25 C T c =
3
with an average heat transfer coefficient of
14 / W m C h
2
c
-
= as well as by radiation with the surrounding surfaces at an average
temperature of 290K T
surr
= . The temperature of the outer surface is measured to be
45 C T
2
c = . For steady one-dimensional heat transfer, what is the inner surface tempera-
ture ( C c ) of the wall at x 0 = ?
Q.13 Consider a cylindrical shape furnace with 2m r H = = . The base, top and side sur-
faces of the furnace are all black and are maintained at uniform temperatures of 500K,
700K and 1400K, respectively. If the view factor from the base to the top surface of the
cylinder is . 038, what will be the net rate of radiation heat transfer (kW) to or from the
top surface during steady operation ?
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Common Data Questions
Common Data for Questions 14 and 15:
Consider a car engine as a rectangular block of . . . m m m 04 06 07
# #
size. The bottom
surface of the block is at 75 C c and has an emissivity of 0.92. The ambient air is at 5 C c
and the road surface is at 10 C c . Assume the flow to be turbulent over the entire surface
with . Re Pr Nu 0037
. /
L
08 1 3
= . Over the time a 2mm thick gunk ( 3 / W m C k c
-
= ) has formed
at the bottom surface as a result of the dirt and oil collected at that surface and the metal
temperature under the gunk still is to be C 75c . The car travels at a velocity of 60 / km h.
The air properties are 1.702 10 / m s
5 2
n
#
=
-
, 0.02662 / W m C k c
-
= and . Pr 07255 = .
Q.14 What will be the total rate of heat transfer from the bottom surface of the engine
block by convection and radiation ?
(A) 1915W (B) 1630W
(C) 2970W (D) 2295W
Q.15 How will the heat transfer be affected when the gunk has formed ?
(A) Decrease by 247W (B) Decreases by 66W
(C) Decrease by 181W (D) Increase by 52W
END OF THE QUESTION PAPER
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