Consider a packed bed of spheres, each of diameter 2 mm, at an initial temperature of 87.5°C. Cold water at 5.0°C is poured onto the bed at 0, producing a large convection coefficient about each sphere. Determine the magnitude of the rate, in °C/s, at which an individual sphere near the top surface of the bed is cooled at 0.1, 0.25, and 1 s. The spheres have thermophysical properties similar to Pyrex.

Acommercial grade cubical freezer, 4 m on a side, has a composite wall consisting of an exterior sheet of 5.0-mm thick plain carbon steel (kst= 60.5 w/m k), an intermediate layer of 100-mm thick polyurethane insulation (kins 0.02 w/m k), and an inner sheet of 5.0- mm thick aluminium alloy (kal polyurethane insulation and both metallic sheets are each characterized by a thermal contact resistance of r 2.5 x 104 m2 k/w. (a) what is the steady-state cooling load that must be maintained by the refrigerator under conditions for which the outer and inner surface temperatures are 25°c and -5°c, respectively? (b) for power saving purpose, which wall material should be increased/reduced in. thickness in order to reduce 50% of the cooling load found in part (a)? redesign the thickness of the proposed material. 177 w/m-k). adhesive interfaces between the q=575.93 w