A composite wall consists of two plates A and B placed in series normal to the flow of heat. The thermal conductivities are kA and kB and the specific heat capacities are CPA and CPB for plates A and B respectively. Plate B has twice the thickness of plate A. At steady state, the temperature difference across plate A is greater than that across plate B, when

Related MCQs

• A wall has two layers A and B, each made of a different material. Both the layers have the same thickness. The thermal conductivity of material of A is twice that of B. Under the thermal equilibrium the temperature difference across the wall is 30?C. The temperature drops in layers A and B will be respectively
• The inner wall of a furnace is at a temperature of 700°C. The composite wall is made of two substances, 10 and 20 cm thick with thermal conductivities of 0.05 and 0.1 W.m-1.°C1 respectively. The ambient air is at 30°C and the heat transfer co-efficient between the outer surface of wall and air is 20 W.m-2 .°C-1 . The rate of heat loss from the outer surface in W.m-2 is
• A wall has two layers of materials A and B; each made of a different material. Both the layers have the same thickness. The thermal conductivity of material A is twice that of B. Under the equilibrium, the temperature difference across the wall is 36°C. The temperature difference across the layer A is __________ °C.
• A composite flat wall of a furnace is made of two materials 'A' and 'B'. The thermal conductivity of 'A' is twice of that of material 'B', while the thickness of layer of 'A' is half that of B. If the temperature at the two sides of the wall are 400 and 1200°K, then the temperature drop (in °K) across the layer of material 'A' is
• If the thermal conductivity of a wall material is independent of temperature, the steady state temperature distribution in the very large thin plane wall having steady, uniform surface temperature follows __________ law.
• If the thermal conductivity of a wall material is independent of temperature, the steady state temperature distribution in the very large thin plane wall having steady, uniform surface temperature follows __________ law.
• The rate of heat loss through a furnace wall is 1000 kcal per hour when inside temperature is 1000?C and outside wall temperature is 500?C. What should be the wall thickness in case the thermal conductivity of wall material is 0.5 kcal/m-hr?C
• The heat flux (from outside to inside) across an insulating wall with thermal conductivity, K = 0.04 W/m.°K and thickness 0.16m is 10 W/m2 . The temperature of the inside wall is - 5°C. The outside wall temperature is
• The face temperatures of a flat wall are 650?C and 450?C respectively and the thermal conductivity of wall material is 0.30 kcal/m-hr-?C. For a wall thickness of 20 cm, the rate of heat conduction per square meter of wall area will be
• Walls of a cubical oven are of thickness l, and they are made of material of thermal conductivity k. The temperature inside the oven is 100°C and the inside heat transfer coefficient is „3k/l’. If the wall temperature on the outside is held at 25°C, what is the inside wall temperature in degree centigrade?