Quiz- Heat Transfer 10Marks - 20 Min

1. Thermal diffusivity of a substance is

(a) Inversely proportional to thermal conductivity

(b) Directly proportional to thermal conductivity

(c) Directly proportional to the square of thermal conductivity

(d) Inversely proportional to the square of thermal conductivity

2. A steel ball of mass 1kg and specific heat 0.4 kJ/kg is at a temperature of 60C. It is
dropped into 1kg water at 20C. The final steady state temperature of water is

(a) 23.5C (b) 300C (c) 35C (d) 40C

3. A wall of thickness 0.6 m has width has a normal area 1.5 m2 and is made up of material
of thermal conductivity 0.4 W/m.K. The temperatures on the two sides are 8000 C. What is
the thermal resistance of the wall?

(a) 1 W/K (b) 1.8 W/K (c) 1 K/W (d) 1.8 K/W

4. A composite wall having three layers of thickness 0.3 m, 0.2 m and 0.1 m and of thermal
conductivities 0.6, 0.4 and 0.1 W/m.K, respectively, is having surface area 1 m2. If the inner
and outer temperatures of the composite wall are 1840 K and 340 K, respectively, what is the
rate of heat transfer?

(a) 150 W (b) 1500 W (c) 75 W (d) 750 W

5. The overall heat transfer coefficient U for a plane composite wall of n layers is given by
(the thickness of the ith layer is ti, thermal conductivity of the ith layer is ki, convective heat
transfer coefficient is h)

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6. Lumped heat transfer analysis of a solid object suddenly exposed to a fluid medium at a
different temperature is valid when

(a) Biot number < 0.1 (b) Biot number> 0.1 (c) Fourier number < 0.1 (d) Fourier number> 0.1

7. Drop wise condensation usually occurs on

(a) Glazed surface (b) smooth surface (c) oily surface (d) coated surface

8. In a counter-flow heat exchanger, the hot fluid is cooled from 230C to 160C by a cold
fluid which gets heated from 25 C to 65 C. LMTD for the heat exchanger is

(a) 149.5 C (b) 143 C (c) 155.2 C (d) 176.6 C

9. For the same inlet and outlet temperatures of hot and cold fluids, the Log Mean
Temperature Difference (LMTD) is

(a) Greater for parallel flow heat exchanger than for counter flow heat exchanger.

(b) Greater for counter flow heat exchanger than for parallel flow heat exchanger.

(c) Same for both parallel and counter flow heat exchangers.

(d) Dependent on the properties of the fluids.

10. If the temperature of a solid surface changes from 27C to 627C, then its emissive power
will increase in the ratio of

(a) 3 (b) 9 (c) 27 (d) 81