Conductivity resistivity

Copper, with its high heat conductivity, resists frictional heat during service and is readily moldable. It is generally used as a base metal, at 60—75 wt %, whereas tin or zinc powders are present at 5—10 wt %. Tin and zinc are soluble in the copper, and strengthen the matrix through the formation of a soHd solution during sintering. 

The most important properties of refractory fibers are thermal conductivity, resistance to thermal and physical degradation at high temperatures, tensile strength, and elastic modulus. Thermal conductivity is affected by the material s bulk density, its fiber diameter, the amount of unfiberized material in the product, and the mean temperature of the insulation. Products fabricated from fine fibers with few unfiberized additions have the lowest thermal conductivities at high temperatures. A plot of thermal conductivity versus mean temperature for three oxide fibers having equal bulk densities is shown in Figure 2. 

The resistances of the Sheetrock, siding, and insulation may be viewed as conductive resistances, while the resistance at the two surfaces combine the effects of convection and radiation between the surface and its surroundings. Typical values for these resistances in units of (W/m — W/m"-°C)" ((Btu/h-ft -°F) ) are as follows ... 

A window consisting of a single piece of clear glass can also he treated with R-value analysis. As with the wall, there is convective and radiative heat transfer at the two surfaces and conductive heat transfer through the glass. The resistance of the window is due to the two surface resistances and to the conductive resistance of the glass, For typical window glass, R = 0.003 (W/ni -°C)" (0.02 (Btu/h-ft -°F) ) so the total resistance of the window is = (0.12 + 0.003 + 0.04) (W/m -- C) ... 

Information on ship resistance has been determined from large numbers of tests on scale models of ships and from full-size ships, and compilations of these experimental results have been published. For a new and innovative hull form the usual procedure is to construct a scale model of the ship and then to conduct resistance tests m a special test facility (towing tank). Alternatively, analytical methods can provide estimates of ship resistance for a range of different hull shapes. Computer programs have been written based on these theoretical analyses and have been used with success for many ship designs, including racing sailboats. 

Copper Highly conductive (less than 0.5 ohm per square foot) easy application low cost (15-30 cents per square foot). Oxidation can reduce conductivity (resistance can change to effectively make copper an insulator) some may be alloys—if layered with silver, cost will rise. 

Figure 7.14 illustrates that in the initial stage of polarization of the pyrite electrode in xanthate solution at about 120 mV, the radius of high value capacitive reactance loop increases with the increase of the polarization potential and reaches the maximum at 320 mV, indicating that the oxidation of xanthate increases gradually and collector film on pyrite surface becomes thicker. It increases the conduction resistance and the growth of collector film is the controlled step resulting in pyrite surface hydrophobic. When the polarization potential increases from 320 mV to 400 mV, the capacitive reactance loop radius decreases, indicating the decrease of transferring conduction resistance as can be seen in Fig. 7.15. It belongs to the step of film dissolution. Capacitive reactance loop radius decreases obviously when the potential is larger than 400 mV, at where the collector film falls off and the anodic dissolution of pyrite occurs. The controlled step is the anodic dissolution of pyrite and the surface becomes...

The last part of the polarization curve is dominated by mass-transfer limitations (i.e., concentration overpotential). These limitations arise from conditions wherein the necessary reactants (products) cannot reach (leave) the electrocatalytic site. Thus, for fuel cells, these limitations arise either from diffusive resistances that do not allow hydrogen and oxygen to reach the sites or from conductive resistances that do not allow protons or electrons to reach or leave the sites. For general models, a limiting current density can be used to describe the mass-transport limitations. For this review, the limiting current density is defined as the current density at which a reactant concentration becomes zero at the diffusion medium/catalyst layer interface. 

Combination of Equations 1 and 2 allows calculation of the rate of heat transfer from the growing crystal surface to the bulk solution. Under heat balance conditions, this rate of heat generation must be balanced by the amount of heat removed from the crystallizer by convection and conduction. This will be determined by the overall heat transfer coefficient, U, between the bulk solution and the refrigerant including convective resistances between the fluid and both sides of the crystallizer wall (refrigerant side and product side) as well as the conductive resistance across the crystallizer wall. 

Beryllium oxide shows excellent thermal conductivity, resistance to thermal shock, and high electrical resistance. Also, it is unreactive to most chemicals. Because of these properties the compound has several applications. It is used to make refractory crucible materials and precision resistor cores as a reflector in nuclear power reactors in microwave energy windows and as an additive to glass, ceramics and plastics. 

However, under many conditions the individual processes can be treated as if they are not coupled. In this case, an approximation that has found widespread use (e.g., see Schwartz and Freiberg, 1981 Schwartz, 1986 and Kolb et al., 1995, 1997), and that helps to assess the relative importance of each of the terms, is to treat the individual processes in terms of an electrical circuit (Fig. 5.16). Dimensionless conductances, T [where conductance = (resistance)-1], associated with each process reflect rates normalized to the rate of gas-surface collisions, and the corresponding resistances are given by 1 /r. The net, overall measured resistance, (ynct)-1, is then related to the individual resistances (see Problem 7) by... 

Storage silo containing a solid the main resistance to heat transfer is located in the bulk of the product contained in the silo. The resistance of the wall and the external film are low compared to the conductive resistance of the solid. 

For natural convection, a correlation was established between the Nusselt criterion, which compares convective and conductive resistances to heat transfer and the Rayleigh criterion, which compares buoyancy forces with viscous friction ... 

Related to conductivity are the parameters of salinity and resistivity. Salinity is a measure of a mass of dissolved salts in a given mass of solution, and it is calculated based on conductivity measurements. Salinity is unitless, although it is often reported in percent. The parameter of salinity is used for the characterization of salt content in seawater, estuarine waters, industrial wastewater, and brines. Resistivity and resistance are the reciprocals of the conductivity and conductance. The parameter of resistivity is used in specifications for high purity water, which has a very low conductivity. Resistivity of reagent grade water is expressed in megohms-cm. 

Thus, hpc is determined from the wall (film) resistance, 1 / hf, in series with the transient conduction resistance of a homogeneous semiinfinite medium, l/hp. By analogy with Eq. (12.48), hf can be expressed by [Gloski et al., 1984]... 

The is a dimensionless overpotential variable and is a dimensionless conduction parameter, in which the group ai Lp is a characteristic property for electrode reaction, while Lhc is a characteristic property for conduction resistance. 

However, the thermal conductivity of the catalyst matrix is usually larger than that of the gas. This means that the external gas-catalyst heat transport resistance exceeds the thermal conduction resistance in the catalyst particles. The temperature and concentration profiles established in a spherical catalyst are illustrated for a partial oxidation reaction in Figure 4. 

At this point we should remark that the installation of fins on a heat-transfer surface will not necessarily increase the heat-transfer rate. If the value of h, the convection coefficient, is large, as it is with high-velocity fluids or boiling liquids, the fin may produce a reduction in heat transfer because the conduction resistance then represents a larger impediment to the heat flow than the convection resistance. To illustrate the point, consider a stainless-steel pin fin which has k = 16 W/m °C, L = 10 cm, d = I cm and which is exposed to... 

The overall heat flow is subject to three thermal resistances, one conduction resistance for each bar, and the contact resistance. For the bars... 

We have already noted that the lumped-capacity type of analysis assumes a uniform temperature distribution throughout the solid body and that the assumption is equivalent to saying that the surface-convection resistance is large compared with the internal-conduction resistance. Such an analysis may be expected to yield reasonable estimates when the following condition is met ... 

In these parameters s designates some characteristic dimensions of the body for the plate it is the half-thickness, whereas for the cylinders and sphere it is the radius. The Biot number compares the relative magnitudes of surface-convection and internal-conduction resistances to heat transfer. The Fourier modulus compares a characteristic body dimension with an approximate temperature-wave penetration depth for a given time r. 

A very low value of the Biot modulus means that internal-conduction resistance is negligible in comparison with surface-convection resistance. This in turn implies that the temperature will be nearly uniform throughout the solid, and its behavior may be approximated by the lumped-capacity method of analysis. It is interesting to note that the exponent of Gq. (4-5) may be expressed in terms of the Biot and Fourier numbers if one takes the ratio VIA as the characteristic dimension 5. Then,... 

Two identical 7.5-cm cubes of copper at 425 and 90°C are brought into contact. Assuming that the blocks exchange heat only with each other and that there is no resistance to heat flow as a result of the contact of the blocks, plot the temperature of each block as a function of time, using the lumped-capacity method of analysis. That is, assume the resistance to heat transfer is the conduction resistance of the two blocks. Assume that all surfaces are insulated except those in contact. 

Although final heat-exchanger designs will be made on the basis of careful calculations of U, it is helpful to have a tabulation of values of the overall heat-transfer coefficient for various situations which may be encountered in practice. Comprehensive information of this sort is available in Refs. 5 and 6, and an abbreviated list of values of U is given in Table 10-1. We should remark that the value of U is governed in many cases by only one of the convection heat-transfer coefficients. In most practical problems the conduction resistance is small compared with the convection resistances. Then, if one value of h is markedly lower than the other value, it will tend to dominate the equation for U. Examples 10-1 and 10-2 illustrate this concept. 

In this problem the water-side convection coefficient is the main controlling factor because h is so large for a condensation process. In fact, the outside thermal resistance is smaller than the conduction resistance of the steel. The approximate relative magnitudes of the resistances are... 

This is a problem where a numerical solution must be employed. We choose a typical section of the duct with length Ax and perimeter P as shown and make the energy balances. We assume that the conduction resistance of the duct wall is negligible. Inside the duct the energy balance is... 

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