Critical Thickness of Insulation
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Consider insulation around a circular pipe as shown in the Details section. The inner temperature of the pipe is fixed at . The pipe length is taken equal to .
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Contributed by: Housam Binous and Mamdouh Al-Harthi (November 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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Details
Here is the insulation around the pipe.
The resistances to heat transfer due to insulation and environment are given by and , respectively. Their sum is effectively in the denominator of the right-hand side of the equation for in the caption.
Reference
[1] J. P. Holman, Heat Transfer, 10th ed., New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010.
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