Question: During a routine check, it was noticed that a 1 5 - m - long section of a 1 0 - cm - diameter steam

During a routine check, it was noticed that a 15-m-long section of a 10-cm-diameter steam pipe, was completely exposed to the ambient air. The temperature
measurements indicate that the average temperature of the outer surface of the steam pipe is 75\deg C when the ambient temperature is 5\deg C. There are also light winds in the area at 10 km/h. The emissivity of the outer surface of the pipe is 0.8, and the average temperature of the surfaces surrounding the pipe, including the sky, is estimated to be 0\deg C.
Consider the following assumptions:
Steady operating conditions exist, and
Air is an ideal gas with constant properties,
The plant operates every day of the year for 10 h a day,
The local atmospheric pressure is 1 atm.
Properties of air at 1 atm and the film temperature of (Ts + T infinity)/2=(75+5)/2=40 degrees Celsius are:
k=0.02662 W/m\deg C, v=1.70210 to the power of -5 m squared per second
and Pr =0.7255
Requested to determine:
i. Total heat transfer Q total, and
ii. The amount of heat lost from the steam during a 10-h-long workday.
To solve Part (i), please follow the following steps.
Reynolds number - Re
Nusselt Number - Nu
Thermal Coefficient -,
Surface Area - As
Heat transfer by convection - Q convection,
Heat transfer by radiation - Q radiation and
Total heat transfer - Q tota;

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