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A Thermocouple Used To Measure The Temperature of Hot Air Flowing in Duct Whose Walls Are Maintained at TW

A thermocouple in a duct measuring air at 700K is affected by the duct walls being at 500K and the thermocouple's emissivity of 0.5. Using the equations relating heat transfer by convection and radiation, the actual air temperature is calculated to be 750.349K.

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A Thermocouple Used To Measure The Temperature of Hot Air Flowing in Duct Whose Walls Are Maintained at TW

A thermocouple in a duct measuring air at 700K is affected by the duct walls being at 500K and the thermocouple's emissivity of 0.5. Using the equations relating heat transfer by convection and radiation, the actual air temperature is calculated to be 750.349K.

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A thermocouple used to measure the temperature of hot air flowing in duct whose walls are

maintained at Tw = 500K shows a temperature reading of Tth = 700K. Assuming the emissivity of the

thermocouple junction to be ϵ = 0.5 and the convection heat transfer coefficient to be 
Determine the actual temperature of the air.

Answer

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Net heat gain through convection


= net heat loss through Radiation
h(Tf – Tth) = ϵ σ (Tth4 – Tw4)
Tf = actual temp. of the fluid
Tth = Temperature value measured by the thermometer
Tw = Temperature of the surrounding surfaces.

Tf = 750.349 K

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