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ENR 137
Heat Transfer
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45-11-0
Dr. Najmur Rahman, Dr. O P Rao, Dr. VVN
Kishore

Course outline
The course is designed to familiarize the students with the basic principles of heat transfer
mechanisms and applications. Students will learn in detail the basic concepts of heat transfer,
conduction, convection and radiation, types of heat exchangers, their analysis and selection,
basics of condensation and boiling, basics of fluid flow, natural and forced convection, black
body radiation, radiation intensity and properties, atmospheric and solar radiation, types of
boilers and their components, waste heat recovery boilers and HRSG etc.
Evaluation procedure
Term Paper
Two Minor Exams
Major Exam

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20%
15% each
50%

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Contents

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Fundamentals of Heat Transfer:

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Relevance of heat transfer to use of renewable energy
sources, heat transfer mechanisms: conduction, convection,
radiation
Conduction:
9
One-dimensional heat conduction equation, steady heat
conduction: composite systems in rectangular, cylindrical
and spherical coordinates with and without energy
generation, concept of thermal resistance, electrical
analogy, thermal contact resistance, critical thickness of
insulation
Heat transfer from extended surfaces, fin efficiency and
effectiveness
Transient heat conduction, lumped system analysis, time
constant, unsteady state heat conduction in one dimension,
heisler charts
Numericals
Fundamentals of Fluid Flow:
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Equation of continuity, momentum and energy equations,

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Contents

laminar and turbulent flows, steady and unsteady flows,

Reynolds number, viscocity, fluid friction, flow through
pipes, Bernoulli theorem, Navier-Stokes equation
Convection:
Physical mechanisms of convection, thermal boundary
layer, natural convection and forced convection,
numericals
Boiling and Condensation:
Boiling heat transfer, pool boiling, boiling curve, nucleate
and film boiling, flow boiling, condensation heat transfer,
film-wise and drop-wise condensation, condensation on
surfaces, condensation inside tubes: horizontal condensers,
vertical condensers
Heat Exchangers:
Different types of heat exchangers: plate heat exchanger,
shell-and-tube heat exchangers: parallel flow and counterflow, overall heat transfer coefficient, fouling factors,
analysis of heat exchangers: logarithmic mean temperature
difference (LMTD) method, effectiveness-NTU method,
selection of heat exchangers, numericals
Radiation:
Thermal radiation, blackbody radiation, radiation intensity,
radiative properties, atmospheric and solar radiation,
numericals
Boilers:
Boiler classification, fire-tube and water-tube boilers,
boiler components, supercritical and ultra supercritical
boilers, waste heat recovery boilers, heat recovery and
steam generators (HRSG)
Total

Allotted time
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Lectures
Tutorials

45

11

Suggested readings:
FP Incropera and DP DeWitt: Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, Fifth Edition,
(Wiley-India, 2007).
YA Cengel: Heat and Mass Transfer: A practical approach, Third Edition (Tata
McGraw Hill)

Reference Books:
JP Holman: Heat Transfer, Ninth Edition (Tata McGraw-Hill, 2007)
PK Nag: Heat Transfer, First Edition (Tata McGraw-Hill, 2002)
F Kreith: Principles of Heat Transfer, (McGraw-Hill)
EB Woodruff, HB Lammers, TF Lammers: Steam Plant Operation, Eighth Edition
(McGraw-Hill, 2004)
PK Nag: Power Plant Engineering, Third Edition (Tata McGraw-Hill, 2007)