The products of combustion from a burner are routed to an industrial application through a thin-walled metallic duct of diameter
Di=1 m and length L=100 m. The gas enters the duct at atmospheric pressure and a mean temperature and velocity of Tm,i=1600 K and Um,i=10 m/s, respectively. It must exit the duct at a temperature that is no less than Tm,o=1400 K. What is the minimum thickness of an alumina-silica insulation (Kins=0.125 W/m*K) needed to meet the outlet requirement under worst case conditions for which the duct is exposed to ambient air at T[infinity]=250 K and a cross-flow velocity of V=15 m/s? The properties of the gas may be approximated as those of air, and as a first estimate, the effect of the insulation thickness on the convection coefficient and the thermal resistance associated with the cross flow may be neglected.
Thermal resistance can be rightly defined as a heat property and a measurement of a temperature difference by which an object or material resists a heat flow.
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