Design a defrosting plate to speed up defrosting of flat food items such as frozen steaks and
Question:
Design a defrosting plate to speed up defrosting of flat food items such as frozen steaks and packaged vegetables and evaluate its performance using the finite difference method. Compare your design to the defrosting plates currently available on the market. The plate must perform well, and it must be suitable for purchase and use as a household utensil, durable, easy to clean, easy to manufacture, and affordable. The frozen food is expected to be at an initial temperature of 218°C at the beginning of the thawing process and 0°C at the end with all the ice melted. Specify the material, shape, size, and thickness of the proposed plate. Justify your recommendations by calculations. Take the ambient and surrounding surface temperatures to be 20°C and the convection heat transfer coefficient to be 15 W/m2 · K in your analysis. For a typical case, determine the defrosting time with and without the plate.
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Heat And Mass Transfer Fundamentals And Applications
ISBN: 9780073398181
5th Edition
Authors: Yunus Cengel, Afshin Ghajar