ChE 411A:Transport Phenomena Heat

Conduction
HEAT TRANSFER IN PLANE WALL/FLAT SLAB
1. 1000 BTU/hr is conducted through a section of insulating material that measures 1 square foot in
cross-sectional area. The thickness is 1-in and the thermal conductivity is 0.12 BTU/hr-ft-F. Compute
the temperature difference across the material.
2. Determine the steady state rate of heat transfer per unit area through a 4.0 cm thick homogenous
slab with its two faces maintained at uniform temperatures of 38C and 21C. The thermal conductivity
of the material is 0.19 W/m-K.
3. Calculate the heat loss per square meter of surface area for an insulating wall of composition 25.4
mm thick fiber insulating board where the inside temperature is 352.7 K and the outside temperature
is 297.1 K. The thermal conductivity of the insulating board is 0.48 W/m-K.
4. The wall of a furnace is constructed from a 15 cm thick fire brick having constant thermal conductivity
of 1.7 W/m-K. The two sides of the wall are maintained at 1400 K and 1150 K respectively. What is
the rate of heat transfer through the wall that is 50 cm x 3 m on a side?
5. A concrete floor with a conductivity of 0.8 BTU/hr-ft-F measures 30 ft by 40 ft with a thickness of 4
in. The floor has a surface temperature of 70F and the temperature beneath it is 60F. What is the
heat flux and the heat transfer rate through the floor?
6. The roof of an electricity heated home is 6 m long, 8 m wide and 0.25 m thick and is made of a flat
layer of concrete whose thermal conductivity is 0.8 W/m-K. The temperature of the inner and outer
surfaces of the roof one night are measured to be 15C and 4C respectively, for a period of 10 hours.
Determine a) the rate of heat loss b) the cost of heat loss to the home owner if the cost of electricity
is $0.80/kWh.
7. A wall of a furnace 0.244 m thick is constructed of a material having thermal conductivity of 1.30
W/m-K. The wall will be insulated on the outside with material having an average k of 0.346 W/m-K,
so the heat loss from the furnace will be equal to or less than 1830 W/m2. The inner surface
temperature is 155.8 K and the outer is 299 K. Calculate the thickness of insulation required.
8. Two large aluminium plates (k=240 W/m-K), each 1 cm thick with 10 µm surface roughness are
placed in contact under 105 N/m2 pressure in air. The temperature at the outside surfaces are 395C
& 405C. Calculate a) the heat flux and b) the temperature drop due to the contact resistance.
9. A food cold storage room is to be constructed of an inner layer of 19.1 mm of pine wood, a middle
layer of cork board, and an outer layer of 50.8 mm of concrete. The inside wall surface temperature
is -17.8C and the outside surface temperature is 29.4 C at the outer concrete surface. The mean
conductivities are for pine, 0.151; cork, 0.0433; and concrete, 0.762 W/m-K. The total inside surface
area of the room to use in the calculation is approximately 39 square meters (neglecting corner and
end effects). What thickness of cork board is needed to keep the heat loss to 586 W?
10. A large furnace has a composite wall (firebrick-parallel layer of masonry and firebrick-concrete)
which are 10 cm , 25 cm, and 5 cm thick respectively. Other details are given in the figure. The
interior surface of the furnace wall is exposed to hot gases at 1000C while the exterior surface is
exposed to atmospheric air at 25C. If the convection heat transfer coefficient of the interior and
exterior surfaces are 60 W/m2-K and 20 W/m2-K, respectively. Calculate the heat transfer per unit
area of furnace wall, for the hot gases to atmospheric air. Estimate also the temperature of the interior
and exterior surfaces and the temperature at each interface. k firebrick=1.04 W/m-K; kmasonry=0.69
W/m-K; kconcrete=1.37W/m-K