Difference Between Heat Transfer And Heat Transfer

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2. Introduction:
2.1.
Heat transfer:
Heat transfer is the science that pursues to foresee the energy transfer that may take place among material bodies as an outcome of a temperature difference.
Thermodynamics explains that this energy transfer is described as heat.
The science of heat transfer pursues not only to explain how heat energy may be transfer, but also to foresee the rate at which the exchange will take place under certain quantified conditions.
The fact that a heat-transfer rate is the desired objective of a study points out the difference among heat transfer and thermodynamics.
Thermodynamics deals with systems in equilibrium; it may be used to foresee the amount of energy required to change a system from one equilibrium state …show more content…

Heat is transferred by conduction due to motion of free electrons in metals or atoms in
Non-metals.
Conduction is quantified by Fourier’s law: the heat lux, q, is proportional to the temperature
Gradient in the direction of the outward normal. e.g. in the x-direction:

qx ≈ dT/dx qx = -K dT/dx

The constant of proportionality, k is the thermal conductivity and over an area A, the rate of heat flow in the x-direction, Qx is

Qx = -K A dT/dx

Conduction may be treated as either steady state, where the temperature at a point is constant with time, or as time dependent (or transient) where temperature varies with time.
The general, time dependent and multi-dimensional, governing equation for conduction can be derived from an energy balance on an element of dimensions δx, δy, δz.
Consider the element shown in Figure 2.1.
The statement of energy conservation applied to this element in a time period δt is that:
Heat low in + internal heat generation = heat low out + rate of increase in internal energy
Qx + Qy + Qz + Qg = Qx +ϐx + Qy +ϐy + Qz +ϐz + mC …show more content…

(1a) shows a classic example of STHE; information shown below).
Plate heat exchanger (PHE), where corrugated plates are maintained in contact and the two fluids flow separately alongside adjacent channels in the corrugation (Fig. 1b shows details of the inside of a PHE; more details are shown below).
Open-flow heat exchanger, where one of the flows is not restricted inside the equipment (or at least, like in Fig. 1c, not exclusively piped).
They created from air-cooled tube-banks, and are mostly used for final heat discharge from a liquid to ambient air, as in the car radiator, but similarly used in vaporisers and condensers in air-conditioning and refrigeration appliances, and in directly-fired home water heaters.
When gases flow alongside both sides, the total heat-transfer coefficient is very deficient, and the finest solution is to make use of heat-pipes as intermediate heat-transfer devices among the gas streams; or else, finned split up surfaces, or, better, direct contact through a solid regain, are used.
Contact heat exchanger, where the two fluids flow into direct contact (simultaneous heat and mass transfer

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