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422 Stainless steel ball bearings ( = 8085 kg/ m , k = 15.1W/m C, = 0.480

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kJ/kgC, and = 3.91* 10 m /s) having a diameter of 1.2 cm are to be quenched in

water. The balls leave the oven at a uniform temperature of 900C and are exposed to air

at 30C for a while before they are dropped into the water. If the temperature of the

balls is not to fall below 850C prior to quenching and the heat transfer coefficient in

the air is 125 W/m C, determine how long they can stand in the air before being

dropped into the water.

425 An electronic device dissipating 30 W has a mass of 20 g, a specific heat of 850

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J/kg C, and a surface area of 5 cm .The device is lightly used, and it is on for 5 min

and then off for several hours, during which it cools to the ambient temperature of

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25C. Taking the heat transfer coefficient to be 12 W/ m C, determine the

temperature of the device at the end of the 5-min operating period. What would your

answer be if the device were attached to an aluminum heat sink having a mass of 200 g

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and a surface area of 80 cm ? Assume the device and the heat sink to be nearly

isothermal.

4-50 A person puts a few apples into the freezer at 15C to cool them quickly for guests

who are about to arrive. Initially, the apples are at a uniform temperature of 20C, and

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the heat transfer coefficient on the surfaces is 8 W/ m C. Treating the apples as 9-
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cm-diameter spheres and taking their properties to be = 840 kg/ m , = 3.81

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kJ/kg C, k = 0.418 W/m C, and = 1.3* 10 m /s, determine the center and

surface temperatures of the apples in 1 h. Also, determine the amount of heat transfer

from each apple.

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4-59 Chickens with an average mass of 1.7 kg (k = 0.45W/m C and = .13* 10

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m /s) initially at a uniform temperature of 15C are to be chilled in agitated brine at

-10C. The average heat transfer coefficient between the chicken and the brine is

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determined experimentally to be 440 W/ m C. Taking the average density of the

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chicken to be 0.95 g/ cm and treating the chicken as a spherical lump, determine the

center and the surface temperatures of the chicken in 2 h and 30 min. Also, determine if

any part of the chicken will freeze during this process.

4-81 Consider a cubic block whose sides are 5 cm long and a cylindrical block whose

height and diameter are also 5 cm. Both blocks are initially at 20C and are made of

m2 /s). Now both blocks are exposed

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granite (k = 2.5 W/m C and = 1.15 * 10

to hot gasses at 500C in a furnace on all of their surfaces with a heat transfer coefficient

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of 40 W/ m C. Determine the center temperature of each geometry after 10, 20, and

60 min.