Heat transfer steady conduction

Mass transfer from a single spherical drop to still air is controlled by molecular diffusion and. at low concentrations when bulk flow is negligible, the problem is analogous to that of heat transfer by conduction from a sphere, which is considered in Chapter 9, Section 9.3.4. Thus, for steady-state radial diffusion into a large expanse of stationary fluid in which the partial pressure falls off to zero over an infinite distance, the equation for mass transfer will take the same form as that for heat transfer (equation 9.26) ... 

Under steady adiabatic conditions in the absence of phase change the rate of enthalpy change of reaction equals the rate of heat transfer by conduction, that is,... 

Heat Transfer by Conduction. In the theoretical analysis of steady state, heterogeneous combustion as encountered in the burning of a liquid droplet, a spherically symmetric model is employed with a finite cold boundary as a flame holder corresponding to the liquid vapor interface. To permit a detailed analysis of the combustion process the following assumptions are made in the definition of the mathematical model ... 

Rate of Heat Transfer. Fourier s Law may be integrated and solved for a number of geometries to relate the rate of heat transfer by conduction to the temperature driving force. Equations are given below that allow the calculation of steady-state heat flux and temperature profiles for a number of geometries. 

The thermal conductivity, n, of a substance is defined as the rate of heat transfer by conduction across a unit area, through a layer of unit thickness, under the influence of a unit temperature difference, the direction of heat transmission being normal to the reference area. Fourier s equation for steady conduction may be written as... 

Analogous to Newton s law of momentum transport and Fourier s law of heat transfer by conduction. Pick s first law for mass transfer by steady-state equimolar diffusion, is... 

Approximate solution of Plank for freezing. Plank (P2) has derived an approximate solution for the time of freezing which is often sufficient for engineering purposes. The assumptions in the derivation are as follows. Initially, all the food is at the freezing temperature but is unfrozen. The thermal conductivity, of the frozen part is constant. All the material freezes at the freezing point, with a constant latent heat. The heat transfer by conduction in the frozen layer occurs slowly enough so that it is under pseudo-steady-state conditions. 

In case of a steady state process the quantity of heat in the hypothetical parallelepii d remains constant and thus the tot according to Eq. (54) is eqiml to the heat transferred by conduction through its walls. According to Eq. (35) written for a steady state process ... 

Fourier s law A relationship that states that the steady-state rate of heat transfer by conduction is proportional to the cross-sectional area perpendicular to the direction of flow and to the temperature gradient of the path of conduction ... 

The overall heat transfer coefficient, U, is a measure of the conductivity of all the materials between the hot and cold streams. For steady state heat transfer through the convective film on the outside of the exchanger pipe, across the pipe wall and through the convective film on the inside of the convective pipe, the overall heat transfer coefficient may be stated as ... 

Under steady-state conditions, the temperature distribution in the wall is only spatial and not time dependent. This is the case, e.g., if the boundary conditions on both sides of the wall are kept constant over a longer time period. The time to achieve such a steady-state condition is dependent on the thickness, conductivity, and specific heat of the material. If this time is much shorter than the change in time of the boundary conditions on the wall surface, then this is termed a quasi-steady-state condition. On the contrary, if this time is longer, the temperature distribution and the heat fluxes in the wall are not constant in time, and therefore the dynamic heat transfer must be analyzed (Fig. 11.32). 

Example 5.8 Suppose that, to achieve a desired molecular weight, the styrene polymerization must be conducted at 413 K. Use external heat transfer to achieve this temperature as the single steady state in a stirred tank. 

In the articles cited above, the studies were restricted to steady-state flows, and steady-state solutions could be determined for the range of Reynolds numbers considered. Experimental work on flow and heat transfer in sinusoidally curved channels was conducted by Rush et al. [121]. Their results indicate heat-transfer enhancement and do not show evidence of a Nusselt number reduction in any range... 

For the analysis, a steady-state fire was assumed. A series of equations was thus used to calculate various temperatures and/or heat release rates per unit surface, based on assigned input values. This series of equations involves four convective heat transfer and two conductive heat transfer processes. These are ... 

We follow the analysis of Frank-Kamenetskii [3] of a slab of half-thickness, rG, heated by convection with a constant convective heat transfer coefficient, h, from an ambient of Too. The initial temperature is 7j < 7 ,XJ however, we consider no solution over time. We only examine the steady state solution, and look for conditions where it is not valid. If we return to the analysis for autoignition, under a uniform temperature state (see the Semenov model in Section 4.3) we saw that a critical state exists that was just on the fringe of valid steady solutions. Physically, this means that as the self-heating proceeds, there is a state of relatively low temperature where a steady condition is sustained. This is like the warm bag of mulch where the interior is a slightly higher temperature than the ambient. The exothermiscity is exactly balanced by the heat conducted away from the interior. However, under some critical condition of size (rG) or ambient heating (h and Too), we might leave the content world of steady state and a dynamic condition will... 

In the common case of cylindrical vessels with radial symmetry, the coordinates are the radius of the vessel and the axial position. Major pertinent physical properties are thermal conductivity and mass diffusivity or dispersivity. Certain approximations for simplifying the PDEs may be justifiable. When the steady state is of primary interest, time is ruled out. In the axial direction, transfer by conduction and diffusion may be negligible in comparison with that by bulk flow. In tubes of only a few centimeters in diameter, radial variations may be small. Such a reactor may consist of an assembly of tubes surrounded by a heat transfer fluid in a shell. Conditions then will change only axially (and with time if unsteady). The dispersion model of Section P5.8 is of this type. 

Usually, the rate of heat transfer is a combination of conduction and convection in a heat exchanger system as illustrated in Fig. 7.1 and only the fluid temperature on either side of the solid surface is known. For steady state, the rate of conduction heat transfer and the rate of convection heat transfer are equal. The total resistance (R) of the combined rate of heat transfer is... 

Unlike Fourier s Law, Eq. (4.62) is purely empirical—it is simply the definition for the heat transfer coefficient. Note that the units of he (W/m -K) are different from those for thermal conductivity. Under steady-state conditions and assuming that the heat transfer area is constant and h is not a function of temperature, the following form of Eq. (4.62) is often employed ... 

Figure 5.2 shows the temperature gradients in the case of heat transfer from fluid 1 to fluid 2 through a flat metal wall. As the thermal conductivities of metals are greater than those of fluids, the temperature gradient across the metal wall is less steep than those in the fluid laminar sublayers, through which heat must be transferred also by conduction. Under steady-state conditions, the heat flux q (kcal In m 2 or W m ) through the two laminar sublayers and the metal wall should be equal. Thus,... 

Thermal conductivity may be defined as the quantity of heat passing per unit time normally through unit area of a material of unit thickness for unit temperature difference between the faces. In the steady state, i.e. when the temperature at any point in the material is constant with time, conductivity is the parameter which controls heat transfer. It is then related to the heat flow and temperature gradient by ... 

Very little data is available on the measurement of heat transfer coefficient. Hands15 mentions the empirical nature of the coefficient and the numerous factors which will affect its value, particularly between rubber and a fluid. Griffiths and Norman66 calculated the heat transfer coefficients for rubbers in air and water. Hall et al67 investigated the effect of contact resistance on steady state measurements of conductivity. 

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