Process Heat Transfer
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The official GTU curriculum for Process Heat Transfer (subject code DI03005031) as prescribed for MECHANICAL · Semester 3 divides the course into 7 units, covering 46 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 (DI03005031)Unit 1 Fundamental of Heat Transfer
- 1.1. Definition and importance of process heat transfer
- 1.2. Steady state and unsteady state heat transfer
- 1.3. Basic modes of heat transfer
- 1.4. General laws of heat transfer (a) Conduction (b) Convection (c) Radiation
- 1.5. Thermal conductance and thermal resistance
Unit 2 Heat Transfer by Conduction
- 2.1. Concept of heat conduction
- 2.2. Thermal conductivity of materials – solids, liquids and gases
- 2.3. Concept of thermal storage capacity and thermal diffusivity
- 2.4. One dimensional steady state heat conduction through a plane wall, cylinder and sphere
- 2.5. One dimensional steady state heat conduction through composite plane wall
- 2.6. One dimensional steady state heat conduction through composite cylinder
- 2.7. One dimensional steady state heat conduction through composite sphere
- 2.8. Thermal Insulation
- 2.9. Derivation of equation for critical radius of insulation
- 2.10. Enhanced heat transfer: concept of fins (extended surface)
Unit 3 Heat Transfer by Convection
- 3.1. Classification of Convection (a) Free convection (Natural convection) (b) Force convection
- 3.2. Newton’s Law of convective heat transfer
- 3.3. Individual and Overall heat transfer coefficient
- 3.4. Significance of dimensionless groups (a) Prandtl No (b) Reynolds No (c) Grashoff No (d) Nusselt No
Unit 4 Heat Transfer by Thermal Radiation
- 4.1. Fundamental facts of radiation
- 4.2. Concepts of thermal radiation: (a) Absorptivity (b) reflectivity (c) Transmittivity
- 4.3. Concept of thermal radiation: (a) Black body (b) White body (c) Gray body (d) Opaque body (e) Transparent body
- 4.4. Concept of thermal radiation: (a) Emissive power (b) Emissivity(f) Monochromatic wave length
- 4.5. Laws of radiation (a) Stefan Boltzmann Law (b) Wien’s displacement law (c) Kirchhoff's Law (d) Plank's Law
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- 4.6. Concept of a black body
Unit 5 Heat Transfer with Phase Change
- 5.1. Introduction to Heat transfer with phase change
- 5.2. Phenomena of Boiling
- 5.3. Regimes of Pool boiling
- 5.4. Phenomena of Condensation
- 5.5. Drop wise and film wise Condensation
Unit 6 Heat exchangers
- 6.1. Introduction of heat exchanger
- 6.2. Types of heat exchanger based on flow pattern, function and construction
- 6.3. Double pipe heat exchanger
- 6.4. Shell and tube heat exchanger
- 6.5. Plate type heat exchanger
- 6.6. LMTD for parallel (Co-current) flow derivation of equation and simple calculations.
- 6.7. LMTD for Counter current flow derivation of equation and simple calculations
- 6.8. LMTD correction factors.
- 6.9. Overall heat transfer co-efficient of heat exchangers
- 6.10. Effect of scale formation
Unit 7 Evaporation
- 7.1. Introduction of evaporation
- 7.2. Characteristics of liquid for evaporation
- 7.3. Evaporator capacity and economy
- 7.4. Boiling point elevation and duhring’s rule
- 7.5. Types of evaporators (a) natural circulation (b) force circulation
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