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2153613
Code: 2153613
Credits: 5
Semester 5
Chem. Tech.
Basics of Heat Transfer
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The official GTU curriculum for Basics of Heat Transfer (subject code 2153613) as prescribed for Chem. Tech. · Semester 5 divides the course into 4 units, covering 94 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2153613)Unit 1 Basic Concepts
- Overview of applications of heat transfer in different fields of engineering
- modes of heat transfer- conduction
- convection and radiation
- heat transfer with and without change of phase
- Conduction: Mechanism of heat conduction
- Fourier’s law, thermal conductivity of solids
- liquids and gases
- effect of temperature on thermal conductivity
- General heat conduction equation in Cartesian coordinates
- Boundary conditions
- Formulation of heat transfer problems without generation of heat
- Conduction through systems of constant thermal conductivity :- conduction through plane
- cylindrical and spherical wall
- combined boundary condition systems (conduction-convection systems)
- conduction through composite slab
- cylindrical and spherical shells
- Electrical analogy to heat flow
- Critical and Optimum thickness of Insulation
- Unsteady State heat Conduction: Analysis of transient heat flow with negligible internal resistance-lumped capacity analysis
- concept of Biot Modulus and Fourier number
Unit 2 Convection
- thermal and velocity boundary layers
- boundary layer thickness
- relationship between hydrodynamic and thermal boundary layer thickness for flow over flat plates
- the convective heat transfer coefficient
- reference temperatures
- thermal boundary layers for the cases of flow over a flat plate and flow through pipe
- dimensionless numbers in heat transfer and their significance
- Forced Convection: General methods for estimation of convection heat transfer coefficient
- Correlation equations for heat transfer in laminar and turbulent flow for external and internal flows for constant heat flux and wall temperature conditions- flow in a circular tube Analogy between momentum and heat transfer: Development of Reynold’s and Prandtl analogy
- Overview of Colburn and Von-Karman analogies (No derivation required)
- Comparison of different analogy expressions
- Natural Convection: Dimensional analysis
- natural convection from vertical and horizontal surfaces under laminar and turbulent conditions for plates
- physical significance of Grashoff and Rayleigh numbers
- Heat transfer by radiation: Introduction- theories of radiation
- electromagnetic spectrum
- thermal radiation
- spectral emissive power
- surface emission- total emissive power
- Radiative properties
- reflectivity and transmissitivity
- Concept of black and grey body
- radiation intensity
- Laws of black body radiation
- non-black surfaces- Grey
- white and real surface
- Lambert’s cosine law, radiation between black surfaces and gray surfaces
Unit 3 Heat Exchangers
- Classification of heat exchangers: Classification according to transfer processes
- number of passes
- surface compactness
- construction features
- flow arrangements
- heat transfer mechanisms
- Shell and tube heat exchanger
- concept of overall heat transfer coefficient
- correction factor for LMTD
- Sizing and rating problem using LMTD method in parallel flow
- counter flow exchanger
- cross flow and multi-pass heat exchangers
- Temperature – distance plots for different flow arrangements in single and multi-pass heat exchangers
- Determination of area
- number of tubes required for a given duty in different configurations using LMTD method of analysis
- Concept of Effectiveness- NTU method
- definition of effectiveness
- effectiveness NTU relations for single pass exchangers in counter-flow and parallel flow configurations
- Double pipe heat exchangers: - construction
- various steps for the design of double pipe heat exchangers
- Plate and spiral heat exchangers
Unit 4 Boiling and Condensation
- Pool boiling - Boiling curve
- hysteresis in the boiling curve
- mechanism of nucleate boiling
- Forced convection boiling - Brief over view of internal forced convection boiling
- Condensation: Physical mechanisms
- types of condensation
- factors affecting condensation
- Evaporation: Principle of Evaporation
- types of evaporators- their construction and operation
- Natural circulation evaporators
- short tube vertical or calendria type evaporators
- basket type vertical evaporators
- long tube vertical evaporators
- forced circulation evaporators
- falling film evaporators
- climbing or rising film evaporators
- agitated thin film evaporators
- the plate evaporator
- Single effect and multiple effect evaporators
- Performance of evaporators
- capacity and economy of evaporators
- Overall heat transfer coefficient
- effect of liquid head and boiling point elevation
- Material and energy balances for single effect evaporator and the calculations on single effect evaporator
- Multiple effect evaporators
- Energy Balance
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