For a boiler at a power station, heat must be transferred to boiling water at the rate

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For a boiler at a power station, heat must be transferred to boiling water at the rate of 3 GW. The boiling water passes through copper pipes having a wall thickness of 4.0 mm and a surface area of 0.12 m2 per meter length of pipe. Find the total length of pipe (actually there are many pipes in parallel) that must pass through the furnace if the steam temperature is 225oC and the external temperature of the pipes is 600oC.

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