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Consider the following statements pertaining to heat transfer through fins (i) They must be arranged at right angles to the direction of flow of working fluid (ii) The temperature along the fin is variable and accordingly heat transfer rate varies along the fin elements (iii) Fins are equally effective irrespective whether they are on the hot side or cold side of the fluid (iv) Fins are made of materials that have thermal conductivity higher than that of wall Identify the correct statements

Correct Answer: i and ii
The statements made in serial number 3 and 4 are incorrect. Fins are seen on the side of the body when the convective coefficient is low.

A heating unit is made in the form of a vertical tube of 50 mm outside diameter and 1.2 m height. The tube is fitted with 20 steel fins of rectangular section with height 40 mm and thickness 2.5 mm. The temperature at the base of fin is 75 degree Celsius, the surrounding air temperature is 20 degree Celsius and the heat transfer coefficient between the fin as well as the tube surface and the surrounding air is 9.5 W/m2 K. If thermal conductivity of the fin material is 55 W/m K, find the amount of heat transferred from the tube without fin

A heating unit is made in the form of a vertical tube of 50 mm outside diameter and 1.2 m height. The tube is fitted with 20 steel fins of rectangular section with height 40 mm and thickness 2.5 mm. The temperature at the base of fin is 75 degree Celsius, the surrounding air temperature is 20 degree Celsius and the heat transfer coefficient between the fin as well as the tube surface and the surrounding air is 9.5 W/m2 K. If thermal conductivity of the fin material is 55 W/m K, find the amount of heat transferred from the tube with fin

Fourier's law of heat conduction is (where Q = Amount of heat flow through the body in unit time, A = Surface area of heat flow, taken at right angles to the direction of heat flow, dT = Temperature difference on the two faces of the body, dx = Thickness of the body, through which the heat flows, taken along the direction of heat flow and k = Thermal conductivity of the body)

An air cooled cylindrical wall is to be fitted with triangular fins of 3 cm thickness at base and 12 cm in height. The fins are made from stainless steel with density 8000 kg/m3 and thermal conductivity 17.5 W/m K. The wall temperature is 600 degree Celsius and the fin is exposed to an environment with t a = 30 degree Celsius and h = 20 W/m2 K. What is the temperature distribution along the fin? . b) t = 20 + 250 I 0 . c) t = 30 + 250 I 0 . d) t = 40 + 250 I 0 .

An electronic semiconductor device generates 0.16 k J/hr of heat. To keep the surface temperature at the upper safe limit of 75 degree Celsius, it is desired that the heat generated should be dissipated to the surrounding environment which is at 30 degree Celsius. The task is accomplished by attaching aluminum fins, 0.5 square mm and 10 mm to the surface. Work out the number of fins if thermal conductivity of fin material is 690W/m K and the heat transfer coefficient is 45k J/square m hr K. Neglect the heat loss from the tip of the fin

Find the heat transfer rate from a hot surface for 6 fins of 10 cm length? The base temperature of the fin is maintained at 200 degree Celsius and the film is exposed to a convection environment at 15 degree Celsius with convective coefficient 25W/square m K. Each fin has cross-sectional area 2.5 square centimeter and is made of a material having thermal conductivity 250W/m K

A flat wall of fire clay, 50 cm thick and initially at 25 degree Celsius, has one of its faces suddenly exposed to a hot gas at 950 degree Celsius. If the heat transfer coefficient on the hot side is 7.5 W/m2 K and the other face of the wall is insulated so that no heat passes out of that face, determine the time necessary to raise the center of the wall to 350 degree Celsius. For fire clay brick Thermal conductivity = 1.12 W/m K Thermal diffusivity = 5.16 * 10 -7 m2/s

A furnace wall consists of two layers. The inside layer of 450 mm is made of light weight bricks of thermal conductivity IW/m.K and outside layer of 900 mm is made of refractory of thermal conductivity 2W/m.K. The hot face of the inside layer is at temperature 1300 K and the cold face of the outer layer is at 400 K. The temperature at the interface between the two layers is . . . . . . . . K.

A finned surface consists of root or base area of 1m2 and fin surface area of 2m2. The average heat transfer coefficient for finned surface is 20W/m2K effectiveness of fins provided is 0.75. If finned surface with surface with root or base temperature of 50°C is transferring heat to fluid of 30°C, then the rate of heat transfer without using fin is _______

Hot water having specific heat 4200 J/kg K flows through a heat exchanger at the rate of 4 kg/min with an inlet temperature of 100 degree Celsius. A cold fluid having a specific heat 2400 J/kg K flows in at a rate of 8 kg/min and with inlet temperature 20 degree Celsius. Make calculations for maximum possible effectiveness if the fluid flow conforms to parallel flow arrangement