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Dr. D.Y.
Patil Institute of Technology, Pimpri, Pune

Mechanical Engineering Department
Subject-Heat and mass transfer
Question Bank unit wise
Unit-3 Convection
Explain 1 Local and average Heat Transfer coefficient 2 Hydrodynamic and
1 Thermalboundary layer 3 Critical Heat Flux 4.Reynolds Number, Prandtl Num ber, Garshoff
Number, Peclet number
2 Describe film wise condensation and drop wise condensation
3 Explain the types of boiling and pool boiling phenomenon in detail with neat sketch of boiling curve.
4 Difference between Forced and Natural Convection.
A vertical plate is maintained at 40°C in 20°C still air. Determine the height at which the boundary layer will
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turn turbulent if turbulence sets in at Gr.Pr = 10 . Repeat the problem for water flow at film temperature of 30°C.
Comment on the results of solution.
A flat plate 1.0 m wide and 1.5 m long is to be maintained at 90 oC in air with free stream temperature of 10 oC
blowing along 1.5 m side of plate. Determine the velocity of air required to have rate of energy dissipation as
3.75kW. Take
6 Nu = [ 0.664 Re1/2 Pr1/3 ] for laminar flow
Nu = [ 0.036 Re4/5 – 836] Pr1/3 for laminar flow
Take air properties at 50 oC, ρ = 1.0877 kg/m3 , Cp = 1007 J/kgK, µ=2.029×10-5,
K= 0.028 W/mK, Pr = 0.703
Water flows at a velocity of 12 m/s in a straight tube of 60 mm diameter. The tube surface temperature is
maintained at 70 oC and the flowing water is heated from the inlet temperature of 15 oC to an outlet temperature
7 of 45 oC. Taking the physical properties of water at the mean bulk temperature of 30oC as ρ = 995.7kg/m3, Cp
= 4.174kJ/kgK, k = 61.718x10-2W/mK, ν = 0.805x10-6m2/s and Pr = 5.42, Use correlation, Nud =
0.023(Red)0.8(Pr)0.4. Calculate (a) the heat transfer coefficient from the tube surface to the water, (b) the heat
transfer and (c) the length of tube.
Air at atmospheric pressure and 40oC flows with velocity of U=7 m/sec over a 2 m long flat plate whose surface
8 is kept at a uniform temperature of 120oC. Determine the average heat transfer coefficient over 2 m length of
plate. Also determine the rate of heat transfer between the plate and air per 1 m width of plate (Air at 1 atm. And
80oC, ν =2.107 x 105 m2/sec, k=0.03025 W/mk, Pr = 0.695).
9 Explain concept of velocity and thermal boundary layer.
A nuclear reactor with its core constructed of parallel vertical plates 2.2m high and 1.4 m wide has been
designed on free convection heating of liquid bismuth. The maximum temperature of the plate surface is limited
to 960 oC while the lowest allowable temperature of bismuth is 340 oC. Calculate the maximum possible heat
dissipation from both sides of of each plate. For the convection coefficient the approximate correlation is
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Nu=0.13 (Gr.Pr) ^0.333 , Where different parameters are evaluated at the mean temperature with standard
notification ρ = 10^4 kg/m3 , Cp = 150.7 J/kgK, µ=3.12 kg/m-hr,
K= 13.02W/mK,
Air at 20 oC having average velocity of 4m/s is flowing along a heated plate at 140 oC. The plate is 2m long and
1.5 m wide. Determine a) Thickness of hydrodynamic boundary layer at 40 cm from leading edge. b) Thickness
of thermal boundary layer at 40 cm from leading edge c) Local heat transfer coeffiecient and average value of
11 heat transfer coeffiecient d) Heat transfer from entire plate. Assume properties of air at mean temperature of
80oC as follows: ρ = 1 kg/m3 , Cp = 1.009 kJ/kgK, µ= 21.09*10^-6 m2/s,
K= 0.0305W/mK, Pr = 0.692
12 Explain the mechanism of heat transfer in Natural and Forced convection.

Radiation 4
Explain following laws 1.Kirchoffs Law, 2.Stefan Boltzmans law, 3.Wiens Displacement law, 4.Shape Factor
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14 Explain Electrical analogy for radiation.
Two large parallel plates with ε =0.5 each are maintained at different temperatures and are exchanging heat only
15 by radiation. Two equally large radiation shields with surface emissivity 0.05 are introduced in parallel to the
plates; find the percentage reduction in net radiative heat transfer.
16 Define shape factor and state laws of shape factor.
17 Explain the concept of radiation shields.
The radiation shape factor of the circular surface of a thin hollow cylinder of 15 cm diameter and 10 cm length is
18 0.1716. What is the shape factor of the curved surface of the cylinder with respect to ifself?
Two parallel plates have emissivity of 0.8 and 0.5. A radiation shield having same emissivity on both sides is
19 placed between them. Calculate the emissivity of the shield in order to reduce the radiation losses form system to
one tenth of that of without shield.
Define emissive power, monochromatic emissive power, emissivity and monochromatic emissivity, black body,
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gray body, solid angle, Intensity of Radiation.
21 State and Explain Lambert Cosine Law of radiation.
22 Define space resistance. State physical significance of it.
Mass Transfer 5
23 Explain Fick’s law for mass diffusion.
A mixture of gas has N2 and CO2 kept in a container having pressure 200kPa and temperature of 27oC. If the
molar fraction of N2 is 0.4, find i) Mole fraction of CO2 ii) Molecular weight of mixture iii) Partial Pressure
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exerted by each gas iv) Molar concentration of each gas v) Mass density of each gas and total mass density
25 Explain different modes of mass transfer

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A vessel contains a binary mixture of O2 and N2 with partial pressures in the ratio 0.21 and 0.79 at 15 C. The
26 total pressure of the mixture is 1.1 bar. Calculate the following (i) Molar concentrations (ii) Mass densities (iii)
Mass fractions and (iv) Molar frction of each species.
27 What are the applications of mass transfer.
The molecular weights of the two components A and B of a gas mixture are 24 and 28 respectively. The
molecular weight of gas mixture is found to be 30. If the mass concentration of the mixture is 1.2 kgm3,
determine the following
28 1. Molar fractions
2. Mass fractions
3. Total pressure if temperature of mixture is 290K
Define Mass concentration or Mass Density, Mass fraction, Molar concentration or Molar density, Mole fraction,
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Mass diffusion flux, Molar diffusion flux.
30 Write short note on physical origins of mass transfer.
Heat Exchangers and Equipment Design 6

31 Derive LMTD for parallel flow heat exchanger
32 Classify evaporators in detail.
33 Derive LMTD for Counter flow heat exchanger
34 Classify Heat exchangers in detail.
Derive an expression for Logarithmic Mean Teamperature Difference (LMTD) for parallel flow heat exchanger
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and counter flow heat exchanger.
36 Draw temperature profile diagrams for parallel flow heat exchanger and condenser.
In a double pipe heat exchanger hot water flows at the rate of 5000kg/h and gets cooled from 950C to 650C. At
the same time 50000kg/h of cooling water at 300C enters heat exchanger. The flow conditions are such that
37 overall heat transfer coefficient remains constant at 2270 W/m2K. Determine the heat transfer area required and
the effectiveness, assuming two streams are in parallel flow. Assume for both the streams Cp=4.2 kJ/kgK.
A counter flow double pipe heat exchanger uses superheated steam to heat water at the rate of 10500kg/h. The
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steam enters the heat exchanger at 180 C and leaves at 130 C. The inlet and exit temperatures of water are 30 C
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38 and 80 C, If the overall heat transfer coefficient from steam to water is 814 W/m C. Calculate the heat transfer
area. What would be the increase in area if the fluid passes are in parallel?
In a double pipe heat exchanger hot water flows at the rate of 7000kg/h and gets cooled from 950C to 650C. At
the same time 70000kg/h of cooling water at 300C enters heat exchanger. The flow conditions are such that
39 overall heat transfer coefficient remains constant at 2270 W/m2K. Determine the heat transfer area required and
the effectiveness, assuming two streams are in parallel flow. Assume for both the streams Cp=4.2 kJ/kg K.
A cross flow heat exchanger with both fluids unmixed is used to heat water flowing at a rate of 20 kg/s from
25°C to 75°C using gases available at 300°C to be cooled to180°C. The overall heat transfer coefficient has a
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value of 95 W/m2K. Determine the area required. For gas Cp = 1005 J/kg K.
41 Explain design considerations for heat exchangers.

42 Write short note on TEMA standards.

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Patil Institute of Technology, Pimpri, Pune

12 Explain the mechanism of heat transfer in Natural and Forced convection.

25 Explain different modes of mass transfer

Heat Exchangers and Equipment Design 6

41 Explain design considerations for heat exchangers.

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