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The document contains 12 problems related to heat exchangers and heat pipes. Problem 1 involves calculating pressure drops in a tubular heat exchanger. Problem 2 involves calculating heat transfer coefficients and pressure drops for air flowing across a compact heat exchanger. Problem 3 involves designing a plate heat exchanger to cool water from 121C to 66C.

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Assignment 2

The document contains 12 problems related to heat exchangers and heat pipes. Problem 1 involves calculating pressure drops in a tubular heat exchanger. Problem 2 involves calculating heat transfer coefficients and pressure drops for air flowing across a compact heat exchanger. Problem 3 involves designing a plate heat exchanger to cool water from 121C to 66C.

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1. A tubular heat exchanger comprises 120 smooth tubes, each 8 mm diameter, and 1.8 m long and
is kept in a cylindrical shell of 0.18 m diameter. Find the overall pressure drop, the entrance, exit
and passage way pressure losses for a total flow of 1kg/s of air at 20°C, and 4 bar. Assume Kc =
0.35, Ke = 0.55
2. Air at 2 atm and 500 K with a velocity of U ∞ = 20 m/s flows across a compact heat exchanger
matrix having of flattened tube plate fin configuration. Calculate the heat transfer coefficient and
the frictional pressure drop. The length of the matrix is 0.8 m.
3. Design a plate heat exchanger to cool 3.79 kg/s of water from 121°C to 66°C using 9.5 kg/s of
water at 16°C. Use a fouling factor of 0.0002 (W/m 2°C)-1 for each stream. The heat exchanger is
made of stainless steel sheet ( k = 15.1 W/m°C) of thickness 0.9 mm each having a projected area
of 0.288 m2. and an effective width of 0.46 m. The distance between the inlet and exit ports is
1.22m. Gasket thickness is 3.05 mm.
4. Hot air at 3 atm, 500 K and at a rate of 20 kg/s flows across a plate finned circular tube matrix
configuration. The heat exchanger matrix is 1.2 m long, 0.8 m wide and 1 m high. Calculate
friction factor and the ratio of pressure drop to the inlet pressure. Properties of air may be
assumed at 500 K and 1 bar pressure.

5. Air enters the core of a finned-tube heat exchanger at 1atm and 30 oC. The air flows at a rate of
1500 kg/h perpendicular to the tubes and exits with a mean temperature of 100 oC. The core is 0.5
m long with a 0.25 m2 frontal area. Calculate the total pressure drop between the air inlet and
outlet and the average heat transfer coefficient on the air side.
6. Water at 30°C flows into a cooling tower at the rate of 1.15kg per kg air. Air enters the tower at
the DBT of 20oC and a relative humidity of 60% and leaves it at a DBT of 28 oC and 90% relative
humidity. Make up water is supplied at 20oC. Determine
i. the temperature of water leaving the tower

ii. the fraction of water evaporated and

iii. the approach and range of the cooling tower.

7. Water from a cooling system is itself to be cooled in a cooling tower at a rate of 2.78kg/s. The
water enters the tower at 65oC and leaves a collecting tank at the base at 30oC. Air flows through
the tower, entering the base at 15 oC, 0.1Mpa, 55% RH and leaving the top at 35 oC, 0.1Mpa,
saturated. Make up water enters the collecting tank at 14 oC. Determine the air flow rate into the
tower in m3/s and the makeup water flow rate in kg/s.
8. Warm water at 45°C enters a cooling tower at the rate of 6kg/s. An ID fan draws 10m 3/s of air
through the tower and absorbs 4.9kW. The air leaving the tower is assumed to be saturated and its
temperature is 26°C. Calculate the final temperature of the water and the amount of makeup
water required. Assume that the pressure remains constant in the tower at 1.013 bar.

9. A water heat pipe operating at 100°C and atmospheric pressure has an inner diameter of 20 mm
and is 300 mm long. The heat pipe is inclined at 60° with the evaporator above the condenser.
The wick consists of four layers of wire screen with wire diameter of 0.025 mm on the inner
surface of the pipe. The pore radius is 10-5 m and the permeability is 4 x 10-11 m2. Determine the
number of heat pipes needed to remove 1 kW of heat pipe from a system. Assume perfect
wetting.
10. A 30 cm long cylindrical heat pipe having diameter of 0.6 cm is dissipating heat at the rate of 180
Watts with a temperature difference of 3°C across the heat pipe. If we were to use a 30 cm long
cylindrical copper rod instead of the heat pipe, determine the diameter and mass of the copper rod
that needs to be installed.
11. Estimate the maximum heat transport capacity and the liquid flow rate of water heat pipe
operating at 100°C and atmospheric pressure. The heat pipe is 30 cm long and has an inner
diameter of 1 cm. The heat pipe is inclined at 30° with the evaporator end above the condenser
end. The wick consists of 4 layers of phosphorous bronze, 250 mesh wire screen (wire diameter =
0.045 mm) on the inside surface of the heat pipe. Assume perfect wetting.

12. An ammonia heat pipe is constructed from 1.27 cm S.S tube and has an effective length of 1.4 m.
The aluminum fibrous slab wick has a cross sectional area of 4.7 x 10 -5 m2. It was found that the
burn out heat load is a function of heat pipe inclination. If the adiabatic section of the heat pipe is
maintained at 22 +/- 2°C, find the effective core radius and the Darcy permeability of the
aluminum wick.

Heat 0 0.3 0.5 0.7 0.9


pipe
angl
e
Qmax 94 74 55 38 23
(W)

Assume the following properties: σl = 21 x 10-3 N/m, hfg = 1.179 x 106 J/kg,
ρl =609 kg/m3, μl = 1.38 x 10-4 N.S/m2.

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