Question: 1- Consider your home as a case in a cold winter day in two scenarios as follows: Scenario A: Using a single layer window

1- Consider your home as a case in a cold winter dayin two scenarios as follows: Scenario A: Using a single layer window

1- Consider your home as a case in a cold winter day in two scenarios as follows: Scenario A: Using a single layer window with 3-mm-thick layers of glass (k = 0.77 W/m-C) 3 mm Frame Single layer window Scenario B: double-pane window consisting of two 3-mm-thick layers of glass (k = 0.77 W/m-C) separated by a 12-mm-wide stagnant air space (k = 0.026 W/m-C). Glass 12 3 mm Double-pane window Frame Work out how much your cost of energy is reduced in a typical cold winter day (24 hours) in Melbourne by moving from Scenario A to Scenario B. Make the key assumptions as required and make sure that your assumptions are reasonable and justified, e.g., outside temperature, room temperature, heating arrangement used (gas ducted heating, electric heating, etc.). With the heating arrangement you use, make reasonable assumptions about its efficiency, and provide reference(s) for your assumptions. Use a latest energy bill of your resident and extract the costs from it for working out the cost of energy and saving; provide an image of the relevant data appeared on your bill to support your assumption (NOTE: do not include personal information such as the address, account number, and account name here in your solution sheet). Assume the outside temperature (using which you do the calculations) to be constant in 24 hours. Use the dimensions and the number of windows based on your own resident and provide the details used in here to support your solution (e.g., 4 windows with given dimensions) Take the convection heat transfer coefficients on the inner and outer surfaces of the window to be h= 15 W/m-C and h= 30 W/m-C The images used for illustration in this question have been taken from the following book: Fundamentals of Thermal-Fluid sciences, Yunus A. Cengel, Rober H. Turner, John M. Cimbla

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