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Chapter 1 Problem 1.61

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A long bus bar (cylindrical rod used for making electrical connections) of diameter Dis installed in alarge conduit having a surface temperature of 30Cand in which the ambient air temperature is T??30C. The electrical resistivity, ?e(?m), of the bar material is a function of temperature, ?e,o??e[1?(T?To)], where ?e,o?0.0171?m,To?25C, and ??0.00396 K?1. The bar experiences freeconvection in the ambient air, and the convectioncoefficient depends on the bar diameter, as well as on the difference between the surface and ambienttemperatures. The governing relation is of the form, h?CD?0.25(T?T?)0.25, where C?1.21W?m?1.75?K?1.25. The emissivity of the bar surface is??0.85.(a) Recognizing that the electrical resistance per unitlength of the bar is ??e/Ac, where Acis itscross-sectional area, calculate the current- carryingcapacity of a 20-mm-diameter bus bar if its tem-perature is not to exceed 65C. Compare the rela-tive importance of heat transfer by free convectionand radiation exchange.(b) To assess the trade-off between current-carrying capacity, operating temperature, and bar diameter,for diameters of 10, 20, and 40 mm, plot the bar temperature Tas a function of current for the range 100?I?5000 A. Also plot the ratio of the heat transfer by convection to the total heattransfer

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Title Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer 7 
Author Theodore L. Bergman; Adrienne S. Lavine; Frank P. Incropera; David P. DeWitt
ISBN 9780470501979

A long bus bar (cylindrical rod used for making electrical

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