ISH 202 E, Introduction to Heat Transfer
Fall 2024
Homework 3 Due Date : November 27, 2024
1. In a cookbook, it is stated that it takes 2 h 45 min to roast a 3.2 kg rib initially at 4.5C
“rare” in a oven maintained at 163C. It is recommended that a meat thermometer to be
used to minitor the cooking, and the rib considered rare done when the thermometer
inserted into the center of the thickest part of the meat registers 60C. The rib can be
treated as a homogeneous spherical object with the properties (k=0.45 W/m.°C, =1200
kg/m3, Cp= 4.1 kJ/kg.°C, and α=0.91 x 10-7 m2/s). Determine,
a. The heat transfer coefficient at the surface of the rib,
b. The temperature of the outer surface of the rib when it is done,
c. The amount of heat transferred to the rib.
2. Consider a cubic block whose sides are 5 cm long and a cylindrical block whose height and
diameter are also 5 cm. Both blocks are initialy at 20C and are made of granite (k=2.5
W/m.°C and α=1.15 x 10-6 m2/s). Now both blocks are exposed to hot gases at 500C in a
furnace on all of their surfaces with a heat transfer coefficient of 40 W/m2.°C. Determine
the center temperature of each geometry after 10, 20, and 60 min.
3. Engine valves (k=48 W/m.°C, Cp= 440 J/kg.°C and =7840 kg/m3) are heated to 800C in
the heat treatment section of a valve manufacturing facility. The valves are then quenched
in a large oil bath at an average temperature of 45C. The heat transfer coefficient in the oil
bath is 650 W/m2.°C. The valves have a cylindrical stem with a diameter of 8 mm and a
length of 10 cm. The valve head and the stem may be assumed to be of equal surface area,
and the volume of the valve head can be taken to be 80 percent of the volume of stem.
Determine how long it will take for the valve temperature to drop to
a. 400C,
b. 200C,
c. 46C, and
d. the maximum heat transfer from a single valve.
