Heat & Mass Transfer

Course after Mid term

Section A & B

1. Fundamentals of Convection
a. Convection
i. Mechanism
ii. Modes
b. Newton’s law of cooling
c. Boundary layer
i. Velocity boundary layer
ii. thermal boundary layer
d. Classification of Fluid on the basis of flow
e. Dimensionless numbers
i. Nusselt number
ii. Reynold number
iii. Prandtl number
2. Natural convection
a. Buoyancy force
b. Grashoff’s number
c. Rayleigh number
3. Forced convection
a. Convective heat transfer coefficient
i. Local
ii. Mean value
4. Phase change

1. Boiling
a. Classification of Boiling
i. Pool Boiling
ii. Flow boiling
b. Classification of pool and flow boiling
iii. Sub-cooled boiling
iv. Saturated boiling
c. Boiling curve

2. Condensation
1. Types
a. Film condensation
b. Drop condensation
2. Comparison of film and drop condensation
5. Thermal Radiation
1. Thermal radiation spectrum
2. Stefan Boltzmann’s law
 3. Black body radiation
4. Definitions: Radiosity, Irradiation,Diffuse surface, Specular surface radiation ,Gray
surface, opaque surface, white surface,emissive power, mono chromatic emmisive
power
5. Radiation properties: Absorbtivity, Reflectivity, Transmissivity
6. Planck’s Law and Wien’s Displacement law
7. Kirchoff’s law
8. Radiation shape factor and its applications

6. Heat Exchangers
a. Types of heat exchangers
1. Contact basis
i) Direct contact type
ii) Direct surface type
iii) Indirect contact type
2. Design and construction basis
i) Double pipe / Concentric tube
ii) Tubular
iii) Extended surface
iv) Multipass
3. Flow basis
i) Parallel flow
ii) Counter flow
iii) Cross flow
b. Overall heat transfer co-efficient
c. Fouling factor
d. Heat exchanger analysis
i. Log Mean temperature difference
a. LMTD parallel
b. LMTD counter
c. LMTD cross/multipass
d. Correction factor F
ii. Problems on LMTD
iii. Effectiveness-NTU-method
iv. Problems on NTU-Effectiveness method
e. Selection of heat exchangers

7. Mass transfer
a. Fick’s Law