Module 4: Heat transfer calculations, miscellaneous topics and carbon credit
  Lecture 33: Heat flow in furnaces
 

Exercise -4 

A furnace is losing heat into surrounding. The outside shell of a furnace has surface temperature The surrounding temperature is . The emissivity of surface is 0.8. Compare heat loss by radiation with that of convection .

SOLUTION
    

hr = radiation coefficient   

  

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Heat loss by convection