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Heat Transfer MCQs
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The Graetz number is concerned with the
- A. Mass transfer between a gas and a liquid
- B. Absorption with chemical reaction
- C. Heat transfer in turbulent flow
- D. Heat transfer in laminar flow
Correct Answer: D
While the total emissivity of a perfect black body is unity, the same for a real body is
- A. 0
- B. 1
- C. > 1
- D. Between 0 and 1
Correct Answer: D
Which of the following situations can be approximated to a steady state heat transfer system?
- A. A red hot steel slab (having outside surface temperature as 1300°C) exposed to the atmosheric air at 35°C
- B. 10 kg of dry saturated steam at 8 kgf/cm 2 flowing through a short length of stainless-steel pipe exposed to atmospheric air at 35°C
- C. Boiling brine kept in open vessel when the bottom surface temperature of the vessel is maintained constant at 180°C
- D. A sub-cooled refrigerant liquid at 8°C flowing at the rate of 6 Kg/minute through a copper pipe exposed to atmospheric air at 35°C
Correct Answer: B
Which of the following forced convection heat transfer equation accounts for the liquid viscosity effect for viscous liquids?
- A. Dittus-Boeltier equation
- B. Sieder-Tate equation
- C. Nusselt equation
- D. None of these
Correct Answer: B
Radiation heat losses from satisfactorily insulated high pressure boilar may be about __________ percent.
- A. 1
- B. 7
- C. 18
- D. 26
Correct Answer: B
Vibrations in the tubes of a shell and tube heat exchanger is induced due to the
- A. Flow of fluid on the tube and shell sides
- B. Oscillations in the flow of shell/tube sides fluid
- C. Vibrations transmitted through piping and/or supports due to external reasons
- D. All of the above
Correct Answer: D
If heat transfer rate varies with the time, it is termed as
- A. Forced convection
- B. Steady state conduction
- C. Monochromatic radiation
- D. None of these
Correct Answer: D
Which one gives the monochromatic emissive power for black body radiation?
- A. Planck's law
- B. Kirchhoffs law
- C. Wien's law
- D. Stefan-Boltzman law
Correct Answer: A
Water always boils when its
- A. Temperature reaches 100° C
- B. Vapour pressure equals 76 cm of Hg
- C. Saturated vapour pressure equals the external pressure on its surface
- D. Saturated vapour pressure is less than the atmospheric pressure
Correct Answer: C
The Nusselt number for fully developed (both thermally and hydrodynamically) laminar flow through a circular pipe, where the wall heat flux is constant, is
- A. 2.36
- B. 4.36
- C. 120.36
- D. Dependent on N Re only
Correct Answer: B
The ratio of momentum diffusivity to thermal diffusivity is the __________ number.
- A. Prandtl
- B. Nusselt
- C. Stanton
- D. Grashoff
Correct Answer: A
The advantage of backward feed multiple effect evaporators over forward feed units is that
- A. Heat sensitive material can be handled
- B. There is no additional cost of pumping
- C. Most concentrated liquid is at highest temperature
- D. Equal heat transfer co-efficients exist in various effects
Correct Answer: C