Heat Exchanger Analysis & Design Question Paper 2014

Heat Exchanger Analysis & Design Question Paper 2014 for BPUT M.Tech 2nd Semester is given below for practice. In Previous year Question
papers the questions were asked from the Heat Exchanger Part of Heat Transfer. The best book for this subject is Heat and Mass Transfer book By
Mahesh Rathode
2nd Semester Regular/Back Examination
HEAT EXCHANGER ANALYSIS & DESIGN
BRANCH(S): MECHANICAL ENGINEERING (HEAT POWER ENGINEERING)
Time: 3 Hours, Max Marks: 70
Answer Question No.1 which is compulsory and any five from the rest.
Q1 Answer the following questions:
a) What do you mean by compact heat exchanger and write the importance of Area density in it.
b) Are we really getting extra advantage by providing Baffles in Shell and tube heat exchanger Justify your answer.
c) Under what condition, the effectiveness NTU method is preferred over LMTD method as a method of analysis of Heat exchanger
d) In a liquid to gas heat exchanger, it is best to put extended surfaces on the gas side. Why?
e) What do you mean by hydraulic diameter and its impact on heat exchanger?
f) What are the heat transfer modes are involved in heat exchanger for heat transfer augmentation?
g) Write the parameters that influence fouling resistances
h) List the effect of channel divergence.
i) How can the flow induced vibration be minimized?
j) What are the causes of pressure drop in shell and tube heat exchanger?
Q2 a) How fouling is dealt while designing heat exchangers.
b) A counter-flow double-pipe heat exchanger is to heat the cold fluid from 30C to 65C at a rate of 2 kg/s. The heath ig is to be accomplished by
hot fluid available at 100C at a mass flow rate of 1 kg/s. The inner tube is thin-walled and has a diameter of 1.5 cm. Specific heat of the hot fluid is
10kJ/kgK and that of the cold fluid is 5 kJ /kgK. If the overall heat transfer coefficient of the heat exchanger is 640 W/m2 C, determine the length of
the heat exchanger required to achieve the desired heating.
Q3 Explain how the makeup water requirement is estimated from energy and mass balance of a cooling tower.
Q4 a) What do you mean by differential thermal expansion? Write the necessary steps are being taken to avoid this
b) Show with neat sketch of temperature distribution for unmixed cross flow heat exchanger and explain it.
Q5 a) Derive the effectiveness of counter flow heat exchanger
b) What would be the effectiveness of counter flow heat exchanger if Cmin/Cmax = 0 and Cmin/Cmax=1
Q6. The condenser of a large steam power plant is a heat exchanger in which stem is condensed to liquid water. Assume the condenser to be a shelland-tube heat exchanger consisting of a single shell and 30,000 tubes, each executing two passes. The tubes are of thin wall construction with D=25
mm, and steam condenses on their outer surface with an associated convection coefficient of h0=11,000 W/m.K the heat transfer rate that must be
effected by the exchanger is q=210^9 W , and this is accomplished by passing cooling water through the tubes at a rate of 310^4 kg/sec. the water
enters at 20C while the steam condenses at 50 degree C. What is the temperature of the cooling water emerging from the condenser? What is the
required tube length L per pass?

Q7. a) What are the various sources of a noise in a heat echanger ? How it can be minimized ?
b) What are the causes of development of stress in a heat exchanger and how thermal stress can be minimized ?
Q8. Write Short Notes (Any Two)
a) Flow pattern of baffles
b) Regenerator Vs Recuperaotor

c) Turbulence and friection factor in pipe flow.

Advanced Heat Transfer II Question Paper 2014

Advanced Heat Transfer II Question Paper 2014 for M.Tech 2nd Semester in Mechanical Engineering or
Heat Power Engineering is given below. In this subject you will get questions from the Heat Transfer Text
Book By Mahesh Rathod. Here is a BPUT M.Tech Previous year questions is given for practice. The
questions will come from Convective Heat Transfer and Mass Transfer Chapters.
M.TECH HTPC202 / TFPC202
2nd Semester Regular/Back Examination
ADVANCED HEAT TRANSFER II (CONVECTIVE HEAT & MASS TRANSFER)
BRANCH(S): MECHANICAL ENGINEERING (HEAT POWER ENGINEERING)
Time. 3 Hours, Max Marks: 70
Answer Question No.1 which is compulsory and any five from the rest.
(steam tables are allowed in the examination hall)
Q1 Answer the following questions:
a). Show the laminar and turbulent boundary flow regimes over a flat plate.
b) What do you mean by thermal boundary layer? How is this different from hydrodynamic boundary layer?
c) What Eckert number.
d) What is laminar sub layer?
e) Show the momentum and thermal boundary layers for natural convection on a vertical plate.
f) What is the importance of critical heat flux?
g) What do you mean by homogeneous equilibrium model?
h) What are the effects of relative humidity in mass transfer case?
i) Write Ficks law of diffusion.
j) Write down the Dittus-Boelter equation and mention its terms.
Q2 a) Derive the energy equation in the thermal boundary layer in laminar flow over a flat plate.
b) Air at 20C and 1 atm flows over a flat plate at 50 m/s. the plate is 100 cm long and is maintained at 60C. The width of the plate is
2m. Calculate the total heat transfer from the plate.
Q3 a) Derive the expression for Nusselt number for constant wall heat flux case considering laminar flow in tube.

b) Water at 25C enters a pipe with constant wall heat flux of 1 kW/m2. The flow is hydro dynamically and thermally fully developed.
The mass flow rate of water is 0 01 kg/s and the pipe radius is 1cm. Calculate. a) Reynolds number b) the heat transfer coefficient and
c) the difference between the local wall temperature and the local mean (bulk)temperature.
Q4. a) With sketch explain regimes of boiling.
b) Derive an expression to obtain the pressure drop in two phase flow
Q5. Design a counter flow, concentric tube heat exchanger to use water for cooling hot engine oil from an industrial power station.
The mass flow rate of the oil is given as 0.2 kg/s, and its inlet temperature is 90C. water is available at 20C but its temperature rise is
restricted to 12.5C because of environmental concerns. The outer tube diameter must be less than 5 cm, and the inner tube diameter
must be greater than 5 cm due to constrains arising from space and piping considerations The engine oil must be cooled to a
temperature below 50C. Obtain an acceptable design if the length of the heat exchanger must not exceed 200 m. Cp (in J/kgK), (in
kg/sm) , and k (W/mK) for oil and water are 2100,0.03,0.15 and 4179, 8.5510^-4, 0.613 respectively. Assume the thickness of the
inner tube (made of brass) to be small.

Q6. a) Write down the governing equations of natural convection heat transfer.
b) A 0.5 m high flat plate of glass at 93C is removed from an annealing furnace and hung vertically in the air at 28 C,1 atm. Calculate
the initial rate of heat transfer to the air. The plate is 1 m wide.
Q7 a) Write down governing equations of forced convection with mass transfer over a flat plate laminar boundary layer
b) Explain Evaporative cooling with neat sketch
Q8. Write short notes (any two)
a) Flow boiling
b) NTU method
c) Fi!mwise condensation

Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics Question Paper 2014

Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics Question Paper 2014 is given below. This questions was asked in the M.Tech Mechanical
Engineering 2nd Semester Exam of BPUT . The prescribed book for Advanced Engineering Thermodynamics Paper is
Thermodynamic by PK Nag (TMH Publication).
2nd Semester Regular/Back Examination 2014
ADVANCED ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS
BRANCH(S): MECH, THERMAL & FLUID, IT, HEAT POWER
Time: 3 Hours, Max Marks: 70
Answer Question No.1 which is compulsory and any five from the rest.
Q1 Answer the following questions:
a) When the Cp of a substance is equal with Cv?
b) State Gouy- Stodola theorem of irreversibility
c) What is adiabatic flame temperature and why we study it?
d) Prove Slope of Isochoric process is more than Isobaric process on TS Plot
e) Can a irreversible process be isentropic.
f) What is second law efficiency and its application in thermodynamics?
g) Explain how degree of freedom is defined by using phase rule for non-reacting system.
h) Define compressibility factor.
i) Define Thermodynamic Probability in relation to entropy.
j) What do you mean by equipartition of energy?
Q2 If U=f(T,V) and h=f(T,P), K= thermal expansivity, = volume expansivity.
By using Maxwells relation Prove that
a) dU = CvdT +( T/K -p ) dv
b) dH = CpdT + V(1 T)dp
Q3 One kilo mole of carbon at 25C and 0.1 MPa Pressure reacts with 1kmol of oxygen at 25C and 0.1 MPa Pressure to form an
equilibrium mixture of CO2, CO and O2 at 3000 K, 0.1 MPa Pressure, in a steady state process. Determine the equilibrium
composition and the heat transfer for this process.

Q4 a) Is Entropy generation is a property? Justify your answer

b) 80 kg of water at 100C are mixed with 50 kg of water at 60C, while the temperature of the surroundings is 15C. Determine the
decrease in available energy due to mixing.
Q5 a) State and explain the Duhems theorem. What is its significance in
establishing the state of the System?
b) Show that for equilibrium between phases of a pure substance the fugacities in both phases should be equal
Q6 a) Derive the Classius-Clapeyron equation
b) Estimate the saturation pressure of refrigerant-134a at -45C

Temp- Pressure
vf
vg
hf
hfg
hg
sf
sf
sg

-40
51.2
0.0007054
0.3611 0.00 225.86 225.86
0.0000 0.9687 0.960

20
571.7 0.0008161
0.0360
79.32 182.28 261.6 0.3006 0.6218 0.92241
Q7 a) Using the formulation of irreversible thermodynamics, write the equations for two coupled transport processes. Describe
onsagers criterian on how to choose appropriate forces and fluxes.
b) Explain Onsagers reciprocal relation.
Q8 Write Short Notes (Any Two)

a) Exergy Vs. Energy

c) Fermi Dirac and Bose Einstein statistics
d) Joule- Thomson Coefficient

Gas Turbine And Jet Propulsion Question Paper 2014

Gas Turbine And Jet Propulsion (GT&JP) Question Paper 2014 is the bput m.tech Mechanical Previous Questions of 2nd Semester in Mechanical Engineering (Heat
Power Engineering). The prescribed book for GT & JP in M.Tech Second Semester is Gas Turbine by V.Ganesan (TMH Publication ).

2nd Semester Regular/Back Examination

GAS TURBINE AND JET PROPULSION
BRANCH : HEAT POWER ENGINEERING Or Mechanical Engg.
Time: 3 Hours , Max Marks: 70
Answer Question No.1 which is compulsory and any five from the rest.
Q1 Answer the following questions: (210)
a) Define Engine Pressure Ratio (EPR) and Ram Pressure Ratio (RPR)
b) Write the expression for equivalent power (EP) of turboprop engine in terms shaft power (SP) and jet thrust (F).
c) What is the function of auxiliary power unit (APU) in civil aircrafts? .
d) Why a slip factor is introduced to nearly make the whirl velocity at impeller tip equal to the tip speed in a centrifugal compressor.
e) Write down three main advantages of axial flow compressors over the centrifugal compressors.
f) Write two basic important requirements for blade design in an axial compressor.
g) Define De-Haller number. Why it is important for axial compressors.
h) Define combustion efficiency.
i) What are major difference between the land-based gas turbines and the gas turbines used for aircraft applications.
j ) Draw a free hand graph to show the variation of pressure ratio with efficiency for an ideal gas turbine cycle taking different specific
heats of air, such as y =1.4 and 1.66, respectively..
Q2. a) A gas which has a molecular mass of 39.9 and specific heat ratio of 1.67 is discharged through a nozzle. A normal shock wave
occurs at section of the flow at which the Mach number is 25, the pressure is 40 kPa and temperature is -20C. Find Mach number
down steam of the normal shock.
b) For the above case, find the pressure and temperature downstream of normal shock .
Q3. a) An auxiliary turbine for use on a large airliner uses a single shaft configuration with air bled from compressor discharge for
aircraft services. The unit must provide 1.5 kg/s bleed air and a shaft power of 200 kW. Calculate the total compressor air mass flow
rate.
b) Calculate the power available with no bleed flow, assuming the following:

Compressor pressure ratio : 3.8

Compressor isentropic efficiency : 0.85

Turbine inlet temperature : 1050 K

Combustion pressure loss : 0.12 bar

Turbine isentropic efficiency : 0.88

Mechanical efficiency (compressor rotor) : 0.99

Mechanical efficiency (driven load) : 0.98

Ambient condition : 1 bar, 288 K

Q4 Define degree of reaction ( A ). Prove that for an axial flow compressor the degree of reaction is
A = Ca/2U (tan1 + tan2 )The symbols have the usual meaning.
Q5. a) A centrifugal compressor compresses 30 kg of air per second at a rotational speed of 15,000 rpm. The air enters the compressor
axially, and the conditions at exit sections are radius=0.3 m, relative velocity of air at tip =100 m/s at the exit angle of 80 . Find the
torque required to drive the compressor.
b) Find the power required to drive the compressor and ideal head developed.

Q6 Write Short Notes (Any Two)

a) Turboprop and turbo shaft engines
b) Procedure for turbine and compressor matching in turbojet engine. Your answer should be precise and step by step procedure.
c) Operating characteristics for centrifugal compressor