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Heat Transfer problems


  • 1. In Joule's experiment, an insulated container contains 20 kg of water initially at 25°C. It is stirred by an agitator, which is made to turn by a slowly falling body weighing 40 kg through a height of 4 m. The process is repeated 500 times. The acceleration due to gravity is 9.8 ms-2. Neglecting the heat capacity of agitator, the temperature of water (in °C) is

  • Options
  • A. 40.5
  • B. 34.4
  • C. 26.8
  • D. 25
  • Discuss
  • 2. Fouling factor

  • Options
  • A. is a dimensionless quantity.
  • B. does not provide a safety factor for design.
  • C. accounts for additional resistances to heat flow.
  • D. none of these.
  • Discuss
  • 3. With increase in temperature, the thermal conductivity of non-metallic amorphous solids

  • Options
  • A. decreases
  • B. increases
  • C. remains constant
  • D. first decreases upto certain temperature and then increases
  • Discuss
  • 4. Which of the following is concerned with both heat and mass transfer?

  • Options
  • A. Lewis relationship
  • B. Nusselt number
  • C. Kutateladze number
  • D. Froude number
  • Discuss
  • 5. A process stream of dilute aqueous solution flowing at the rate of10 Kg.s-1 is to be heated. Steam condensate at 95°C is available for heating purpose, also at a rate of 10 Kg.s-1. A 1 - 1 shell and tube heat exchanger is available. The best arrangement is

  • Options
  • A. counter flow with process stream on shell side.
  • B. counter flow with process stream on tube side.
  • C. parallel flow with process stream on shell side.
  • D. parallel flow with process stream on tube side.
  • Discuss
  • 6. With increase in porosity, the thermal conductivity of a solid substance

  • Options
  • A. increases
  • B. decreases
  • C. remains unchanged
  • D. may increase or decrease; depends on the solid
  • Discuss
  • 7. Heat waves

  • Options
  • A. can not pass through vacuum.
  • B. travel in straight line.
  • C. can be reflected by a mirror.
  • D. both (b) and (c).
  • Discuss
  • 8. Presence of a non-condensing gas in a condensing vapour

  • Options
  • A. increases the rate of condensation.
  • B. decreases thermal resistance.
  • C. is desirable to increase the film co-efficient.
  • D. none of these.
  • Discuss
  • 9. Which of the following is not used as a medium for high temperature heating?

  • Options
  • A. Dowtherm
  • B. mercury
  • C. liquid metal (e.g. molten sodium)
  • D. fused salts (e.g., an eutectic mixture of 53% KNO3, 40% NaNO2and 7% NaNO3)
  • Discuss
  • 10. Convective heat transfer co-efficient in case of fluid flowing in tubes is not affected by the tube length/diameter ratio, if the flow is in the __________ zone.

  • Options
  • A. laminar
  • B. transition
  • C. both 'a' & 'b'
  • D. highly turbulent
  • Discuss

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