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MAE 3314: Heat Transfer

Design Assignment #2: Water heating system


Due date – 11/18/2024 (Monday) 11:59 pm, Online submission via Canvas

Your team is working on water heating system design. The heating system must heat 0.2 kg/s of water
from 20 oC to 40 oC. The team decided to use hot gases flowing over a thin-walled copper tube to heat up
the water while water flows through the tube.
Your assignment is to develop a series of design plots that can be used to demonstrate acceptable
combinations of tube dimensions (diameter (D) and length (L)) and hot gas conditions (temperature (T∞)
and velocity (V)) that satisfy water heating requirement. Using these plots your team will select
appropriate combination of tube D and L and gas stream parameters (T∞ and V) to achieve the required
water heating. From the previous project, you are given with the range of parameters as follows.
• Diameter of tube (D) can be either 20, 30 or 40 mm.
• Tube length (L) should be between 3 and 6 m.
• Hot gas temperature can be either 250, 375, or 500 oC.
• Velocity of hot gas ranges 20 ≤ V ≤ 40 m/s.
Some assumptions can be taken as follows.
• Heat transfer from gas to water processes at steady-state.
• Water is incompressible liquid with negligible viscous dissipation.
• Properties of hot gas are same as those of atmospheric air.
• The copper tube is very thin and has high thermal conductivity, so that the tube wall thermal
resistance is negligible.

(a) Draw a schematic of this problem. Indicate all known parameters in the schematic.

(b) Estimate the tube length required at 250 oC of gas temperature and 20 m/s of gas velocity over
20-mm-diamter tube. Does this length satisfy the design limit?

(c) You decided to generate design graphs in the following manner: for a specified gas temperature,
T∞, plot the required length L as a function of gas velocity V (20 ≤ V ≤ 40 m/s) for three tube
diameters. Three design graphs will be corresponding to plots at T∞ = 250, 375, and 500 oC,
respectively. Present your plots along with the code that you wrote.

<Example Plot>

Hyejin Moon ([email protected])

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