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ME341-A
724 A 15-cm x 15-cm circuit board dissipating 15 W of power
uniformly is cooled by air, which approaches the circuit board at
20C with a velocity of 5 m/s. Disregarding any heat transfer from
the back surface of the board, determine the surface temperature of
the electronic components (a) at the leading edge and (b) at the end
of the board. Assume the flow to be turbulent since the electronic
components are expected to act as turbulators.
744 An average person generates heat at a rate of 84 W while
resting. Assuming one-quarter of this heat is lost from the head and
disregarding radiation, determine the average surface temperature
of the head when it is not covered and is subjected to winds at 10C
and 35 km/h. The head can be approximated as a 30-cm-diameter
sphere.
755 The components of an electronic system are located in a 1.5-
m-long horizontal duct whose cross section is 20-cm x 20-cm. The
components in the duct are not allowed to come into direct contact
with cooling air, and thus are cooled by air at 30C flowing over the
duct with a velocity of 200 m/min. If the surface temperature of the
duct is not to exceed 65C, determine the total power rating of the
electronic devices that can be mounted into the duct.
758 Consider a 50-cm-diameter and 95-cm-long hot water tank.
The tank is placed on the roof of a house. The water inside the tank
is heated to 80C by a flat-plate solar collector during the day. The
tank is then exposed to windy air at 18C with an average velocity of
40 km/h during the night. Estimate the temperature of the tank after
a 45-min period. Assume the tank surface to be at the same
temperature as the water inside, and the heat transfer coefficient on
the top and bottom surfaces to be the same as that on the side
surface.
766 Air is to be heated by passing it over a bank of 3-m-long tubes
inside which steam is condensing at 100C. Air approaches the tube
bank in the normal direction at 20C and 1 atm with a mean velocity
of 5.2 m/s. The outer diameter of the tubes is 1.6 cm, and the tubes
are arranged staggered with longitudinal and transverse pitches of
SL ST
= = 4 cm. There are 20 rows in the flow direction with 10
tubes in each row. Determine (a) the rate of heat transfer, (b) and
pressure drop across the tube bank, and (c) the rate of condensation
of steam inside the tubes.