Related Mcqs:

1. Heat flux increases with temperature drop beyond the Leiden frost point in the plot of heat flux vs. temperature drop for a boiling liquid, because___________________?

   A. Convection becomes important
   B. Conduction becomes important
   C. Radiation becomes important
   D. Sub-cooled boiling occurs

2. The heat flux in the nucleate boiling regimes is proportional to (where, ΔT = excess temperature) ?

   A. (ΔT)2
   B. (ΔT)4
   C. (ΔT)3
   D. √(ΔT)

3. The radiation heat flux from a heating element at a temperature of 800°C, in a furnace maintained at 300°C is 8 kW/m2. The flux, when the element temperature is increased to 1000°C for the same furnace temperature is_____________________?

   A. 11.2 kW/m2
   B. 12.0 kW/m2
   C. 14.6 kW/m2
   D. 16.5 kW/m2

4. It is desired to concentrate a 20% salt solution (20 kg of salt in 100 kg of solution) to a 30% salt solution in an evaporator. Consider a feed of 300 kg/min at 30°C. The boiling point of the solution is 110°C, the latent heat of vaporisation is 2100 kJ/kg and the specific heat of the solution is 4 kJ/kg.K. The rate at which the heat has to be supplied in (kJ/min) to the evaporator is____________________?

   A. 3.06 × 105
   B. 6.12 × 105
   C. 7.24 × 105
   D. 9.08 × 105

5. Critical value of the _____________ number governs the transition from laminar to turbulent flow in free convection heat transfer?

   A. Grashoff
   B. Reynolds
   C. Both ‘a’ & ‘b’
   D. Prandtl & Grashoff

6. In a boiling curve, the peak heat flux is called the _____________ point?

   A. Nusselt
   B. Leidenfrost
   C. Boiling
   D. Burnout

7. Air is to be heated by condensing steam. Two heat exchangers are available (i) a shell and tube heat exchanger and (ii) a finned tube heat exchanger. Tube side heat transfer area are equal in both the cases. The recommended arrangement is________________?

   A. Finned tube heat exchanger with air inside and steam outside
   B. Finned tube heat exchanger with air outside and steam inside
   C. Shell and tube heat exchanger with air inside tubes and steam on shell side
   D. Shell and tube heat exchanger with air on shell side and steam inside tubes

8. A 10 cm dia steam pipe, carrying steam at 180°C, is covered with an insulation (conductivity = 0.6 W/m.°C). It losses heat to the surroundings at 30°C. Assume a heat transfer co-efficient of 0.8 W/m2.°C for heat transfer from surface to the surroundings. Neglect wall resistance of the pipe and film resistance of steam. If the insulation thickness is 2 cms, the rate of heat loss from this insulated pipe will be__________________?

   A. Greater than that for un-insulated steam pipe
   B. Less than that of the un-insulated steam pipe
   C. Equal to that of the un-insulated steam pipe
   D. Less than the steam pipe with 5 cms insulation

9. Extended heat transfer surface like fins are used to increase the heat transfer rate. Fin efficiency is defined as the ratio of heat transferred across the fin surface to the theoretical heat transfer across an equal area held at the________________?

   A. Surrounding temperature
   B. Average temperature of the fin
   C. Temperature of the fin end
   D. Constant temperature equal to that of the base

10. Heat flux is the time rate of heat transfer per unit_______________?

    A. Length
    B. Area
    C. Volume
    D. None of these