Question

A furnace wall composed of 200 mm, of fire brick. 120 mm common brick 50mm 80% magnesia and 3mm of steel plate on the outside. If the inside surface temperature is 1450 °C and outer surface temperature is 90°C, estimate the temperature between layers and calculate the heat loss in KJ/h-m2. Assume k for fire brick 4 KJ/m-h°C, k for common brick= 2.8 KJ/m-h°C, k for 85% magnesia = 0.25 KJ/m-h°C and k for steel 240 KJ/m-h°C, k

Answer 1

• fire brick / common brick : 1218 °C
• common brick / magnesia : 1019 °C
• magnesia / steel : 90.06 °C
• heat loss: 4644 kJ/m^2/h

Step-by-step explanation:

The thermal resistance (R) of a layer of thickness d given in °C·m²·h/kJ is ...

R = d/k

so the thermal resistances of the layers of furnace wall are ...

R₁ = 0.200/4 = 0.05 °C·m²·h/kJ

R₂ = 0.120 2.8 = 3/70 °C·m²·h/kJ

R₃ = 0.05/0.25 = 0.2 °C·m²·h/kJ

R₄ = 0.003/240 = 1.25×10⁻⁵ °C·m²·h/kJ

So, the total thermal resistance is ...

R₁ +R₂ +R₃ +R₄ = R ≈ 0.29286 °C·m²·h/kJ

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The rate of heat loss is ΔT/R = (1450 -90)/0.29286 = 4643.70 kJ/(m²·h)

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The temperature drops across the various layers will be found by multiplying this heat rate by the thermal resistance for the layer:

fire brick: (4543.79 kJ/(m²·h))(0.05 °C·m²·h/kJ) = 232 °C

so, the fire brick interface temperature at the common brick is ...

1450 -232 = 1218 °C

For the next layers, the interface temperatures are ...

common brick to magnesia = 1218 °C - (3/70)(4643.7) = 1019 °C

magnesia to steel = 1019 °C -0.2(4643.7) = 90.06 °C

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Comment on temperatures

Most temperatures are rounded to the nearest degree. We wanted to show the small temperature drop across the steel plate, so we showed the inside boundary temperature to enough digits to give the idea of the magnitude of that.