Question: Before being injected into a furnace, pulverized coal is preheated by passing it through a cylindrical tube whose surface is maintained at T sur =

Before being injected into a furnace, pulverized coal is preheated by passing it through a cylindrical tube whose surface is maintained at Tsur = 1000°C. The coal pellets are suspended in an airflow and are known to move with a speed of 3 m/s. If the pellets may be approximated as spheres of I-mm diameter and it may be assumed that they are heated by radiation transfer from the tube surface, how long must the tube be to heat coal entering at 25°C to a temperature of 600°C? Is the use of the lumped capacitance method justified?

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