CH 302 Heat Transfer                                                                                                 Spring 2004

 

Catalog Description:  

The fundamentals of heat transfer with applications to the design of chemical process equipment. Conductive, convective and radiant heat transfer.

 

Pre-requisites:           

Fluid Mechanics: CH301 or ES330

 

Textbook:      

J.P. Holman, Heat Transfer, 9th edition, McGraw Hill, 2002

 

Instructor:      

Ruth Baltus, 226 CAMP, x 2368, baltus@clarkson.edu

 

Office Hours: 

Mon, Wed, 2 to 4 PM, Thurs 9:30 to 11:30AM or by appointment

 

Learning Objectives:    

 

  1. Understand and solve problems involving heat conduction, including Fourier’s law, conduction through composite materials, overall heat transfer coefficients (including series elements), finned surfaces, internal heat generation and transient heat conduction.
  2. Understand and solve problems involving convective heat transfer, including film theory, boundary layer theory, correlations for the overall heat transfer coefficient, heat transfer in a pipe with constant wall temperature or constant surface flux, and heat transfer with flow between parallel plates.
  3. Understand and solve problems involving heat exchangers, including double pipe, cocurrent and countercurrent flow, log-mean temperature difference, and shell and tube exchangers, including correction factors for multipass arrangements, shell side heat transfer coefficient, and pressure drop.
  4. Understand and solve problems involving natural convection, in both confined and unconfined regions, and explain the difference between free and forced convection.
  5. Understand and solve problems involving radiation, including black bodies, grey bodies, view factors, and radiation heat transfer between surfaces.

 

Attendance:

            Expected at all classes. Because we will often work through examples in class, it is important that you bring your textbook (with physical property data that we will use) and a calculator to each class.

 

Exams:           

There will be two hour exams scheduled at the following times:

            Thursday February 19, 8:30-9:30PM, SC160

            Thursday April 8, 8:30-9:30PM, SC160

 

            A final exam will be scheduled during final exam week.

            Exams will be open book. Students may bring one 8 ˝” by 11” handwritten summary sheet to each exam. Notes and homework solutions will not be allowed.

 

            There will be no make-up examinations. If an exam is missed for a legitimate reason (to be determined by the instructor), the grade will be determined using scores for the other hour exam and the final.

 

Homework:

            Homework will be assigned in class on a weekly basis. Homework is due in class on the due date. Late assignments will not be accepted. Assignments will also be listed on the course website: http://www.clarkson.edu/~baltus/ch302sp04.html.  Answers to most problems will be provided via email each week prior to the due date. Homework solutions will be posted on the web after the assignment has been collected.

 

Design-Oriented Problems:

            In addition to regularly assigned homework problems, there will be a number (tentatively, six) of design-oriented problems that will also be assigned. These problems can be completed by yourself or with one other student. If two people work together, only one solution, with both names on it, should be submitted. However, you can only work with the same person once during the semester.

 

Grading:

            Hour Exam with better score:               25%

            Hour Exam with poorer score:            15%

            Design-Oriented Problems #1-4            10%

            Design-Oriented Problems #5,6            10%

            Homework                                        10%

            Final Exam                                       30%

           

Course Outline:

            Chapter 1 Introduction

            Chapter 2 One Dimensional Steady State Conduction

            Chapter 4 Unsteady-State Conduction

            Chapter 5 Principles of Convection

            Chapter 6 Forced Convection Heat Transfer Correlations

            Chapter 10 Heat Exchangers

            Chapter 7 Natural Convection

            Chapter 8 Radiation Heat Transfer

            Chapter 3 Steady State Conduction in Multiple Dimensions

            Chapter 9 Boiling Heat Transfer

 

We will not cover every section of every chapter. Objectives for each chapter will be provided on the course website.