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During air cooling of potatoes, the heat transfer coefficient for combined convection, rad...

During air cooling of potatoes, the heat transfer coefficient for combined convection, radiation, and evaporation is determined experimentally to be as shown:

Air Velocity, m/s

Heat Transfer Coefficient,

W/m2.K

0.66

14.0

1.00

19.1

1.36

20.2

1.73

24.4

Consider an8-cm-diameter potato initially at 20°C with a thermal conductivity of 0.49 W/m·K. Potatoes are cooled by refrigerated airat5°C at a velocity of 1 m/s. Determine the initial rate of heat transfer from a potato, and the initial value of the temperature gradient in the potato at the surface.

Answers: 5.8 W, – 585°C/m

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