THAPAR INSTITUTE UNIVERSITY, PATIALA

(Department of Chemical Engineering)

Tutorial Sheet 7 (Unsteady State Heat transfer)

Subject: Heat Transfer Semester: II
Course No.: UCH 402 Session: 2011 - 2012
Course-Coordinator: Dr. D. Gangacharyulu Date: February 13, 2012


1. A cylindrical ingot 10 cm diameter and 30 cm long passes through a heat treatment furnace,
which is 6 m in length. The ingot must reach 800
o
C before it comes out of the furnace. The
furnace gas is at 1250
o
C and ingot initial temperature is 90
o
C. What is the maximum speed
with which the ingot should move in the furnace to attain the required temperature? The
combined convective and radiative heat transfer coefficient is 100 W/(m
2
-K). The thermal
conductivity and the thermal diffusivity of the ingot steel are 40 W/(m-K) and 1.16x10
-5

m
2
/sec.

2. A 100 cm 100 cm copper slab of 10 cm thick has a uniform temperature of 400
o
C. Its
temperature is suddenly lowered to 100
o
C and maintained. Calculate the time required for the
plate to reach the temperature of 200
o
C. Take copper slab properties as, = 9000 kg/m
3
; Cp =
0.38 kJ/(kg-K); k = 370 W/(m-K); and h = 100 W/(m-K).

3. A vessel is filled with 0.0283m
3
of water initially at 288.8 K. The vessel, which is well stirred,
is suddenly immersed in a steam bath held at 377.6 K. The overall heat-transfer coefficient U
between the steam and water is 1136W/(m
2
-K) and the area is 0.372m
2
. Neglecting the heat
capacity of the walls and agitator, calculate the time in hours to heat the water to 338.7 K.
[Hint: Since the water is well stirred, its temperature is uniform.]