In: Mechanical Engineering
One important point for an automobile radiator design is to
cool the engine while moving at...
- One important point for an automobile radiator design is to
cool the engine while moving at 50 km/h on a 7% grade road in a
desert summer condition. Your responsibility as a design engineer
is to make sure that the coolant (water in this case, since it is
the hot summer time, no antifreeze is needed) temperature at the
radiator inlet does not exceed the saturation temperature of water
at this point. Consider a radiator that can be approached as a
cross – flow heat exchanger with both fluids unmixed and working
under the following conditions:
The manometer reading at the radiator
water inlet is 100 kPa (the gage pressure!) where the local
atmospheric pressure is also 100 kPa.
The engine heat rejection rate: q = 40
kW.
For air; flow rate 2700 kg/h, inlet
temperature 52 ℃, specific heat 1008 J/kg.K.
For water; flow rate 5130 kg/h,
specific heat 4244 J/kg.K.
For the radiator UA = 1134 W/K.
- Determine the water inlet and outlet temperatures and air
outlet temperature from the radiator. (15 P)
- Determine the logarithmic mean temperature difference
correction factor F and estimate the value of corrected logarithmic
mean temperature difference for the radiator. (10 P)
- Neglecting the pressure losses within the radiator, determine
whether the design is safe or not against overheating (against
boiling within the radiator). (15 P)
- One effective way of obtaining safe operating conditions
against radiator overheating may be increasing fan power to obtain
higher air flow rates. If your findings for Part c) indicate unsafe
operating conditions, determine the minimum air flow rate that
ensures safe operation against the radiator overheating. To do
this, increase the air flow rate with 90 kg/h intervals, until yuo
reach safe operating conditions, while keeping the other parameters
fixed at the above given values. (15 P)
- A low quality coal known as Saray lignite has the components of
C = 45%, H = 4%, O = 17%, S = 4%, N = 2%, A = 13% and W = 15%.
Carry out the following analyses for this lignite:
- Using the exact formula determine the heating value. (5 P)
- Draw the Ostwald dagram in a scaled manner. (10 P)
- After the combustion, 6% CO2 and 10% CO contents are
measured in the stack gases. Obtain the excess air coefficient and
the ratio of O2 within the stack gases, utilizing the
Ostwald diagram you drew in Part b). (10 P)
- Determine the excess air coefficient and the ratio of
O2 within the stack gases, using the analytical
relations and compare the results with the ones you obtained in
Part c). (10 P)
- In what type of boiler and under which conditions do you think
this lignite should be used in the lights of above estimated values
of fuel components, the excess air coefficient, and the heating
value. (10 P)