INDUSTRIAL PLANT ENGINEERING – PROBLEM SET 1

1. The heat transferred through a wall having thermal conductivity of 0.5 kcal/mºC is 1000 kcal/m 2. If the temperature between walls
are 500ºC and 1000ºC, find the wall thickness.

2. The heat loss from a wall is Q1. The heat loss Q2 flows when the thermal conductivity doubles, what is the relation of Q 1/Q2?

3. A room 10 ft long, 12 ft wide and 8 ft high. The inside and outside temperatures are 8ºF and 65ºF, respectively. Compute the heat
transmitted through the walls if the coefficient of heat transmission is 0.12 Btu/ft 2-ºF-hr.

4. Steam is initially saturated at 2.05 Mpa, passes through a 10.10 cm pipe for a total distance of 152 m. Steam line is insulated with
a 5.08 cm thickness of 85% magnesia. For an ambient temperature of 22ºC, what is the quality of the steam, which arrives at its
destination if mass flow rate is 0.125 kg/s?
At 2.05 MPa: tsat = 213.67 ºC
hf = 914.52 kJ/kg
hfg = 1885.5 kJ/kg
hg = 2800.0 kJ/kg
K for 85% magnesia = 0.069 w/mºK
ho for still air = 936 w/m2-ºK

5. The hot combustible gases of a furnace are separated from an ambient air and its surrounding, which are at 25ºC, by a brick wall
0.15 cm thick. The brick has a thermal conductivity of 1.2 w/mºK and surface emissivity of 0.8. Under steady state conditions and
outer surface temperature of 100ºC is measured. Free convection heat transfer to the air adjoining the surface is characterized by
a convection coefficient of 20 w/m2-ºK. What is the inner surface temperature in ºC?

6. A counterflow heat exchanger is design to heat fuel at from 30ºC to 90ºC while heating fluid enters at 140ºC and leaves at 105ºC.
Determine the AMTD and LMTD.

7. A 4m2 asphalt pavement with emissive of 0.85 has a surface temperature of 50 deg C. Find the maximum rate of radiation that can
be emitted from the surface.

8. Consider a person standing in a breezy room at 20 deg C. Determine the total rate transfer from this person of the exposed surface
area and the average outer surface temperature of the person are 1.6 m 2 and 29 deg C, respectively, and the convection heat
transfer coefficient is 6 W/m2 with emissivity of 0.95.

9. An aluminum pan whose thermal conductivity is 237 W/m-C has a flat bottom whose diameter is 20 cm and thickness0.4 cm. Heat
is transferred to boiling water in the pan through its bottom at a rate of 500 watts. If the inner surface of the bottom of the pan is
105 deg C, determine the temperature of the surface of the bottom of the pan.

10. For heat transfer purposes, a standing man can be modeled as a 30 cm diameter, 170 cm long vertical cylinder with bottom both
the top and bottom surfaces insulated and with the side surface at an average temperature of 34 deg C. For a convection heat
transfer coefficient is 15 W/m2-C, determine the rate of the heat loss from this man by convection in an environment at 20 deg C.

11. A 5 cm diameter spherical ball whose surface is maintained at a temperature of 70 deg C is suspended in the middle of a room at
20 deg C. If the convection heat transfer coefficient is 15 W/m2-C and the emissivity of the surface is 0.8, determine the total heat
transfer form the ball:
12. The heat transfer across a 5” wall of a firebrick is 500 w/m2. If the surface temperature on cold side is 30ºC and thermal
conductivity of brick is 0.7 Btu/hr-ftºF, find the temperature on hot side.

13. Two walls of a storage plant composed of insulating material (k = 0.25 kJ/hr-mºC) with 15 cm thick and concrete (k = 3.2382 kJ/hr-
mºC) with 10 cm thick. The surface temperature on hot side is 35ºC and cold side is –10ºC. If the area is 8 m square, find the
temperature between walls. Note: Insulating material is on cold side.

14. Determine the thermal conductivity of a material that is used a 4 m 2 test panel, 25 mm thick with a temperature difference of 20ºF
between surface. During the 4 hrs of test period, the heat transmitted is 500 kJ.

15. Sea water for cooling enters a condenser at 25ºC and leaves at 40ºC. The condenser temperature is 45ºC, what is the log mean
temperature difference?

16. Steam initially is saturated at 250ºC passed through a 12 cm steel pipe for a total distance of 200 m. The steam line is insulated
with material having k = 10 w/m2K and thickness of 6 cm. The ambient temperature of 25ºC. Determine the surface film
conductance of air if the moisture at the discharge end is 10% and steam rate is 0.13 kg/s.

17. A counterflow heat exchanger is designed to heat fuel oil from 26ºC to 100ºC while the heating fluid enters at 138ºC and leaves at
105ºC. The fuel oil is 27ºAPI and has a specific heat of 2.3 kJ/kgºK and enters the heat exchanger at the rate of 1000 gallons per
hour. Determine the heating surface area if overall coefficient of heat transfer is 420 kcal/hr-m2-ºK.

18. A man (0.3 m2) has a temperature of 35ºC and air surrounding temperature of 24ºC. The air conductance is 12 w/m 2 C. The heat
that radiate from body to air is 50 watts. What is the total heat transferred?

19. A process equipment contains 100 gallons of water at 25ºC. It is required to bring it to boiling in 10 minutes. The heat loss is
estimated to be 5%. What is the kw rating of the heater.

20. The hot combustible gasses of a furnace are separated from the ambient air and its surrounding, which are 29ºC, by a brick wall
130 mm thick. The brick has a thermal conductivity of 1.23 w/mºK and a surface emissivity of 0.81. At steady state conditions the
outer surface temperatures is 130ºC> Air surface film conductance is 15 w/m 2-ºK. What is the total heat transmitted for 30 square
meter area.

21. A 6 m square wall of a room has a surface temperature of 40ºC. The wall thickness is 20 cm has a thermal conductivity of 0.07
w/mºk and air film conductance is 15 w/m 2-K. if ambient air temperature is 20ºC, find the heat loss through the walls.

22. A wall with a thermal conductivity of 0.30 w/mºK is maintained at 40ºC. The heat flow through the wall is 250 W. The wall surface
area is 1.5 m2 and its thickness is 1 cm. Determine the temperature of the outer surface.