Tortilla chips are manufactured by submerging baked and partially cooled masa at 41 °C into corn oil at 182 °C.
(a) If the specific heat of masa is 1850 J/(kg • K), how much thermal energy is required to warm 0.454 kg of masa to the temperature of the oil?
(b) If the production line makes 227 kg of chips every hour, at what rate (in kW) must thermal energy be supplied to the corn oil, assuming that all of the energy goes into warming the masa?