Engineering

Daphne Cantu

27 June, 16:28

A pipe in a district heating network is transporting over-pressurized hot water (10 atm) at a mass flow of 0.5 kg/s. The pipe is 5 m long, has an inner radius of 50 cm and pipe wall thickness of 50 mm. The pipe has a thermal conductivity of 20 W/m-K, and the inner pipe surface is at a uniform temperature of 110 ºC. The convection heat transfer coefficient of the air surrounding the pipe is 100W/m2 - K. The temperature of the water at inlet of pipe is 130 ºC and the constant pressure specific heat of hot water is 4000 J/kg-ºC. If the temperature of the air surrounding the pipe is 20 ºC, determine the exit temperature of the water at the end of the pipe.