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Steam used to sterilize fermentation equipment is piped 20 m from a factory boiler room through a 6-cm-diameter tube. The surface temperature of the steam pipe is roughly constant at 118°C. Most of the length of the tube lies unprotected and exposed to the outside weather. The air temperature is 5°C and the wind speed is 7.5 m/s. The properties of air at 330 K are: Cp=1007 J/kg°C, kfb=0.0283 W/m°C, ρ=1.076 kg/m3, and µb=1.99∙10-5 kg/m∙s.
Estimate rate of heat loss from the pipe in kW