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P M V Subbarao
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering Department
IIT Delhi
Mass Transfer
low concentration
Diffusion:
Salt through cheese curd
Smoke through meat
Marinade or curing solution through meat
Lye in tomato peeling
Osmosis
Desert Cooler
Evaporative Cooling
Cooling through the evaporation of water is an ancient and
effective method of lowering temperature.
Both plants and animals use this method to lower their
temperatures.
Trees, through the process of evapotranspiration, for example,
remain cooler than their environment.
People accomplish the same thing when they perspire.
For both trees and people the underlying scientific principle is
the same: when water evaporates, that is, changes
from a liquid to a gas, it takes heat energy from the
surrounding environment, thus leaving its environment cooler.
Primitive Products
Finally, some of us may have discovered that
water kept in a canvas bag, porous clay container,
or in a canteen with a water-soaked cloth cover, is
much cooler, especially on a hot day, than water
kept in plain metal or plastic containers.
As the water evaporates from the surfaces of these
containers it draws heat away from the containers
and the water they hold, as well as from
the air around them, thus leaving the water cooler.
Syllabus
Introduction :3 Lecture
Introduction to Heat Transfer; Relationship to
thermodynamics; Heat Transfer as an engineering
science; Practical relevance; Mechanisms of Heat
transfer: conduction, convection and radiation;
related parameters.
Conduction Heat Transfer : 8 Lectures
Heat Conduction equation and its approximations:
steady and unsteady, single and multidimensional,
constant and variable properties, with and without
heat generation. Steady state conduction; thermal
resistance networks in planar, cylindrical and
spherical systems; critical radius of insulation;
extended surface heat transfer; fin effectiveness
and efficiency; thermal insulation. Transient
conduction in semi-infinite and finite media; lumped
capacitance method. Introduction to numerical
solution of heat conduction equations.
BOOKS
Fundamentals of Heat and Mass
Transfer (Fifth edition):
Incropera F.P. and De Witt, D.P.
Heat Transfer -- a practical
approach Cengel Y.
Heat Transfer (Ninth edition):
Holman J.P.
Fundamentals of Heat & Mass
Transfer: M. Thirumaleshwar.
Heat Transfer: Kreith F. and Bohn