Radioactive waste is stored in a cylindrical stainless steel container with inner and outer diameters of 1
Question:
Radioactive waste is stored in a cylindrical stainless steel container with inner and outer diameters of 1 m and 1.2 m, respectively, so that R0 = 0.5 m and R1 = 0.6 m. Thermal energy is generated uniformly within the waste material at a volumetric rate of 2 × 105 W/m3. The outer container surface is exposed to water at 25°C (T∞ = 25°C), and the outer surface convective heat-transfer coefficient is h = 1000 W/m2 · K. The ends of the cylinder are insulated so that heat transfer is only in the r-direction. You may assume that over the temperature range of interest the thermal conductivity of stainless steel, ksteel, is 15 W/m · K and the thermal conductivity of the radioactive waste, krw, is 20 W/m · K.
a. What are the temperatures of the outer surface, T0, and inner surface, Ti, of the stainless-steel container?
b. What the maximum temperature within the radioactive waste?
c. Where will this maximum temperature be located?
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Fundamentals Of Momentum Heat And Mass Transfer
ISBN: 9781118947463
6th Edition
Authors: James Welty, Gregory L. Rorrer, David G. Foster