| Course Name | Process Heat Transfer |
| Course Code | 15CHE213 |
| Program | B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering |
| Semester | Four |
| Year Taught | 2019 |
Modes of heat transfer – Fourier’s law of heat conduction and applications; Thermal conductivity measurement; Steady state conduction with variable area; Heat transfer coefficient & film theory; Heat transfer in extended surfaces; Heat Transfer to Fluids without phase change: Concepts of heat transfer by convection – Natural and forced convection; Correlations for the calculation of heat transfer coefficients.
Analogies between transfer of momentum and heat – Reynold’s analogy, Prandtl and Colburn analogies; Heat Transfer to Fluids with Phase Change – heat transfer from condensing vapors, drop wise film wise condensation, film condensation on vertical surface and horizontal tube bank; Heat transfer to boiling liquids – mechanism of boiling of saturated liquids; Heat exchangers – shell & tube, double pipe, flow patterns, construction and operational features, theory & calculations, energy balances and effectiveness.
Heat exchanger design procedure – Effectiveness – NTU Method – Chart for different configurations; Theory of Evaporation; evaporator types; single effect and multiple effect evaporation; evaporator design considerations; Radiation heat transfer – Emissive power, Black body radiation, Emissivity, Stefan–Boltzman law, Planck’s law, radiation between surfaces.
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