Internal Flow Homework 1 Cooling water available at 10°C is used to condense steam at 30°c...
Cooling water available at 10°C is used to condense steam at 30°C in the condenser of a power plant at a rate of 0.15 kg/s by circulating the cooling water through a bank of 5-m-long 1.2-cm-internal-diameter thin copper tubes. Water enters the tubes at a mean velocity of 4.75 m/s and leaves at a temperature of 24°C. The tubes are nearly isothermal at 30°C. The properties of water at the average temperature of (10+24)/2=17°C are: ρ = 998.7 kg/m3 cp...
Problem 1. (30 points) A double-pipe heat exchanger is used to condense steam at 7370 N/m2. Water at an average bulk temperature of 10°C flows at 2.50 m/s through the inner pipe. which is made of copper and has a 2.54-cm ID and a 3.05-cm OD. Steam at its saturation temperature flows in the annulus formed between the outer surface of the inner pipe and an outer pipe of 5.08-cm-ID. The average heat transfer coefficient of the condensing steam is...
PROBLEM 3 (45 points) The condenser of a large steam power plant is a heat exchanger in which steam is condensed to liquid water. Assume the condenser to be a parallel flow shell-and-tube heat exchanger consisting of a single shell and 1x10 tubes, each executing two passes. The inner diameter of tubes is D = 50 mm and its thickness is 5 mm (Do not ignore the thickness). The steam condenses on their outer surface. Thermal conductivity of the tube...
Consider a refrigeration truck traveling at 90 km/h at a location where the air temperature is 27°C. The refrigerated compartment of the truck can be considered to be a 2.7 m-wide, 2.4-m-high, and L-m-long rectangular box. The outer surface of the truck is coated with a low-emissivity material, and thus radiation heat transfer is very small. Use the following thermal properties for air: k = 0.02514 W/m.°C; v = 1.516x10m/s; Pr=0.7309 L = 4.75 m. a) (10 pts.) Is the...
The condenser of a large steam power plant is a heat exchanger in which steam is condensed to liquid water. Assume the condenser to be a shell-and-tube heat exchanger consisting of a single shell and 30,000 tubes, each executing two passes (see figure below). The tubes are of thin wall construction with D=25mm, and steam condenses on their outer surface with an associated convection coefficient ho=11,000W/ m K The heat transfer rate that must be effected by the heat exchanger...
Dr. Clark designed a system capable of cooling the air of a house using water in river. The main component is stainless steel pipe (k=15.1 W/mK, Di=0.15m Do=0.152m) submerged in a river with a water temperature T_fluid=17 C. The warm air from the house enters this cooling pipe at a volume flow rate 0.025 m3/s, and T_m,i=27 C. The exit temperature is expected to be T_m,o=20 C. The convection heat transfer coefficient between the pipe external surface and water is...
Problem 3 (20 points) A cross-flow heat exchanger consists of a bundle of 32 tubes in a long duct. Hot water at 150°C and a mean velocity of 0.5 m/s enters the tubes having inner and outer diameters of 10.2mm and 12.5mm and has to be cooled to 136°C. The tubes are made of steel of thermal conductivity k-40 W/m.K. Air at 10°c enters the exchanger (unfinned) with a volumetric flow rate of 1.0 m3/s. The convective heat transfer coefficient...
2 ICED WATER IN A SPHERICAL CONTAINER (10 POINTS) Troom = 30°C Iced water O , D; = 5 m 1.5 cm T = 0°C A 5-m-internal-diameter spherical tank made of 1.5-cm-thick stainless steel (k = 15 W/( m K )) is used to store iced water at 0°C. The tank is located in a room whose temperature is 30°C. The walls of the room are also at 30°C. Heat transfer between the outer surface of the tank and the...
heat transfer Test Yourself A Shell-and-tube heat exchanger, consisting of a single shell and 30.000 tubes, each executing two passes, is used in a large steam power plant to condense steam to liquid water. The steam condensed in the shell side of the heat exchanger with an associated convection coefficient (h) of 11.000 W/m2.°C. The heat transfer rate through the heat exchanger (O is 2x10' W. Cooling water is passing through a thin tubes with D = 2.5 cm, at...
Section C – shell and tube heat exchanger sizing The vapour condenser for the combined gas-steam power cycle described in Section B heats river water from 15 °C to 18 °C. The condenser is a shell and tube heat exchanger with one shell pass and two tube passes. The cooling water is inside the tubes while the shell side has the condensing vapour. More details: a. The tube OD is 1 ¼” (inches), the tube wall thickness is 0.05 inches....