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1 D Steady State
Conduction
BITS Pilani Pratik N Sheth
Pilani Campus Department of Chemical Engineering

Contents

• Thermal Contact Resistance

• Examples on Heat source systems and Fin

Dr Pratik N Sheth, Dept of Chemical Engg, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

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Contact Resistance
The temperature drop
across the interface
between materials may be
appreciable, due to surface
roughness effects, leading
to air pockets.
Thermal contact resistance
is usually experimentally
measured and depends
upon
• thermal conductivity of
solids A and B
• surface finish & cleanliness
• contact pressure
• gap material
• temperature at contact
plane

Contact Resistance

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Example on Heat Source in

Plane Wall
• Problem Statement
• A plane wall 6.0 cm thick generates heat internally at the rate of 0.3 MW/m3.
• One side of the wall is insulated, and the other side is exposed to an
environment at 93◦C.
• The convection heat-transfer coefficient between the wall and the environment is
570 W/m2 ◦C.
• The thermal conductivity of the wall is 21 W/m ◦C. Calculate the maximum
temperature in the wall.

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Example on Heat Source in a

sphere
• Derive an expression for the temperature distribution in a
sphere of radius r with uniform heat generation ˙q and
constant surface temperature Tw.
• A stainless-steel sphere [k =16 W/m ◦C] having a
diameter of 4 cm is exposed to a convection
environment at 20◦C, h=15 W/m2 ◦C. Heat is generated
uniformly in the sphere at the rate of 1.0 MW/m3.
Calculate the steady-state temperature for the center of
the sphere.

Dr Pratik N Sheth, Dept of Chemical Engg, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

Example on Fin

• Problem Statement
• A circumferential fin of rectangular profile has a thickness of 0.7mmand is
installed on a tube having a diameter of 3 cm that is maintained at a temperature
of 200◦C.
• The length of the fin is 2 cm and the fin material is copper.
• Calculate the heat lost by the fin to a surrounding convection environment at
100◦C with a convection heat-transfer coefficient of 524 W/m2 ◦C.

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Example on Fin

• Problem Statement

Dr Pratik N Sheth, Dept of Chemical Engg, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

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