ME 415 Spring 2011

Test 2

Blue Paper Test

Open book but closed notes: Multiple choice 30 points 1. Air flows in cross flow over a one-inch OD copper tube at 30 ft/s. The air properties are air = 1.2 x 10-5 lbm/ft-s, air = 0.08 lbm/ft3, Prair = 0.7, kair = 0.0145 Btu/hr-ft-F, Cpair = 0.24 Btu/lbmF. The properties of copper are Cu = 559 lbm/ft3, kCu = 223 Btu/hr-ft-R. The convective heat transfer coefficient, hair, of the air is closest to a) b) c) d) 1 Btu/hr-ft2-R 10 Btu/hr-ft2-R 100 Btu/hr-ft2-R 1000 Btu/hr-ft2-R 1

2. A plane surface is equipped with an array of straight fins of rectangular profile. The fin height from the wall is 2 inches, the thickness is 1/4, and the span along the wall is 2 feet. The pitch is 1. The fin material is brass (kfin = 60 Btu/hr-ft-F). The convective heat transfer coefficient is h = 20 Btu/hr-ft2-F. The total surface effectiveness is closest to a) b) c) d) 0.675 0.800 0.962 0.977

3. A 3-inch schedule 80 steel pipe (ID = 2.9 inches, OD = 3.5 inches) has an array of fins as shown below. The fins are spines or pin fins (little cylinders) that are 1-inch long and 0.25-inch in diameter. Each bank of fins contains 11 fins spaced equally around the circumference of the pipe. The banks are space 1 inch apart down the length of the pipe. The pipe is 300 inches long. The total number of fins is closest to a) b) c) d) 3,300 11,000 4,200, 12,000

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4. A 10-foot long steel pipe (kpipe = 25 Btu/hr-ft-F) with inside diameter of 2 inches and outside diameter of 2.2 inches has a liquid flowing on the inside with hin = 315 Btu/hr-ft2-F. The outside surface is finned with a total heat transfer area of Aout = 36 ft2, heat transfer coefficient of hout = 12 Btu/hr-ft2-F, and a total surface effectiveness of 0.8. The component of the thermal resistance due to the inside convection inside the pipe is closest to a) b) c) d) 3.2 x 10-3 Btu/hr-F 6.07 x 10-4 hr-F/Btu 2.89 x 10-3 hr-F/Btu 47.7 Btu/hr-F

5. Which fin construction would have the highest fin efficiency? a) b) c) d) high-k and high-h low-k and high h low-k and low-h high-k and low-h

ME 415 Spring 2011

Test 2

Blue Paper Test

Work the following two problems. If you use Excel upload your spreadsheets to elearning Problem 1 (35 pts). In a one shell,two tube pass heat exchanger, 4000 lbm/hr of water (Cp = 1 Btu/lbm-F) is cooled from 400 F to 205 F by use of oil (Cp = 0.8 Btu/lbm-F) entering at 80 F and leaving at 200 F. Find the following Actual heat transfer rate = ______________ Btu/hr Thermal capacity (mdot*Cp) for the oil stream = _______________ Btu/hr-F The maximum heat transfer rate, Qmax = ___________ Btu/hr The heat exchanger effectiveness, Xi = _____________ The number of transfer units, NTU = _______________ The overall conductance, UA = ____________ Btu/hr-F

ME 415 Spring 2011

Test 2

Blue Paper Test

Problem 2. (35 pts) The overall conductance for a counter-flow heat exchanger is UA = 71,500 Btu/hr-F. Water, Cp = 1 Btu/lbm-F, flows at 400,000 lbm/hr, entering at a temperature of 250 F. hot gases, Cp = 0.3 Btu/lbm-F, flows on the other side at 320,000 lbm/hr, entering at 750 F. Find the heat transfer rate and exit temperatures for these conditions. Qrate = _____________ Btu Water exit temperature = ___________ F Oil exit temperature = _____________ F