Heat Transfer in Food Engineering
Heat Transfer in Food Engineering
AB Materials sterilization, drying, and evaporation. These unit operations involve the
transfer of heat between a product and some heating or cooling medium.
Heating and cooling of food products is necessary to prevent microbial and
enzymatic degradation. In addition, desired sensorial properties—color,
flavor, texture—are imparted to foods when they are heated or cooled.
TEMPERATURE ENGINEERING
HEAT ENGINEERING
- an intensive property that indicates the thermal state of a system or a Heat – always transferred from the high-temperature region to the low
body. Temperature is a measure of internal energy possessed by a system temperature transferred from one body (the hotter body) to another (the
and gives the direction in which energy in the form of heat will flow. colder body) by virtue of the temperature difference existing between them
•Celsius or Centigrade Scale
•Kelvin Scale •This equalization of temperature is due to
•Fahrenheit Scale the fact that energy in the form of heat
from one body to another always passes
through both bodies at the same rate.
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a. Conduction – it may be (a) heat flow from a high-temperature region to a b. Convection – transfer of heat by the movement of fluid or gas. Heat
lower-temperature region within a body, or (b) heat transfer between two transfer by Convection occurs under the combined action of heat
bodies through their boundaries conduction and mixing motion.
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CONDUCTION ENGINEERING
CONDUCTION ENGINEERING
•Heat takes place between objects from high temp. to low temp. by direct Factors Affecting Heat Flow Between Two Points:
physical contact. a.Thermal Conductivity (k) – the ability of a material to transfer heat
•In heat conduction, energy is transferred due to exchange of molecular kinetic ⚬ only for homogeneous materials
energy. According to kinetic theory, temperature of body is proportional to mean ⚬ determines the quantity of heat passing per unit time per unit area at a
kinetic energy of its component molecules. temperature drop of unit per unit length
•Energy transfer by molecular activity continues till temperature along the entire Thermal Resistance (R) – reciprocal of conductance and/or conductivity
length of the body becomes equal.
Common units:
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Two surfaces of a plane wall of 15cm thickness and 5 m^2 area are maintained at
Conduction through a plane homogeneous wall
240°C and 90°C respectively. Determine the heat transfer between the surfaces
and temperature gradient across the wall if conductivity of the wall material is18.5
W/(m-K).
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Sample Problem 2
ABE 413- FOOD PROCESS
ENGINEERING Sample Problem ABE 413- FOOD PROCESS
ENGINEERING
Conduction through a flat composite wall (slabs in SERIES) Conduction through a flat composite wall (slabs in SERIES)
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Conduction through a flat composite wall (slabs in PARALLEL) A cold room has one of the walls 5 m x 2.5 m made of bricks 12 cm thick
insulated externally by cork slabbing 8 cm thick. Cork is protected externally by
2.5 cm wood. Estimate the heat infiltration through the wall in 24 hours, if the
interior of the cold room is maintained at a temperature of 0°C and the outside
temperature is 20°C. Thermal conductivities for brick, cork and wood are 0.8,
0.038 and 0.15 kcal/m·hr· °C, respectively.
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Conduction through a single-curved wall (hollow cylinder) The temperature of the outside surface of a double extra-strong
bare steel pipe (ID = 6.87 in, OD = 8.625 in) is 600°F while the
temperature of the inside surface is 605°F. if the thermal
conductivity of the material is 26.56 Btu-ft/hr-ft^2 -°F (a) What
is the heat loss per feet of pipe?
RADIATION
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RADIATION
ABE 413- FOOD PROCESS
ENGINEERING RADIATION ABE 413- FOOD PROCESS
ENGINEERING
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Interchange and Find the heat loss from a polished steel sphere by radiation if the
shape factor: diameter is 20 cm, the outer temperature is maintained at 427°C. The
environment is at 27°C. If the body is oxidized, how would the heat
loss be affected? Assume that the sphere is suspended in a very large
room and the emissivities of polished and oxidized surfaces are 0.1
and 0.8, respectively
-transfer of heat by the movement of fluid or gas. Heat transfer by Convection occurs
under the combined action of heat conduction and mixing motion.
-Convection in a gas occurs because gas
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-If the convectional currents are set up only due to density differences, then heat
transfer process is natural or free convection but if caused by some external (blower, fan,
At an average temperature of 100 C, hot air flows through a 2.5 m long
pump etc.) then heat transfer process is called forced convection. tube with an inside diameter of 50 mm. The temperature of the tube is
20 C along its entire length. Convective film coefficient is 20.1 W/m2
Convective heat transfer rate is governed by the newton’s law of cooling and is
-K. Determine the convective heat transfer from air to the tube.
expressed as;
Q=hA(ΔT)
Where;
h= Convective heat transfer coefficient in W/(m^2-K)
A= Heat transferring area, m^2
ΔT= Change of temperature, K
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