A 5-m × 6-m × 8-m room is to be heated by an electrical resistance heater placed in a short duct in the room. Initially, the room is at 15°C, and the local atmospheric pressure is 98 kPa. The room is losing heat steadily to the outside at a rate of 200?kJ/min. A 300-W fan circulates the air steadily through the duct and the electric heater at an average mass flow rate of 50?kg/min. The duct can be assumed to be adiabatic, and there is no air leaking in or out of the room. If it takes 18 min for the room air to reach an average temperature of 25°C, find (a) the power rating of the electric heater and (b) the temperature rise that the air experiences each time it passes through the heater.

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A room is heated by an electrical resistance heater placed in a short duct in the room in 15 min while the room is losing heat to the outside, and a 300-W fan circulates the air steadily through the heater duct. The power rating of the electric heater and the temperature rise of air in the duct are to be determined.

Assumptions 1 Air is an ideal gas since it is at a high temperature and low pressure relative to its critical point values of -141°C and 3.77 MPa. 2 The kinetic and potential energy changes are negligible, ?ke ? ?pe ? 0. 3 Constant specific heats at room temperature can be used for air. This assumption results in negligible error in heating and air-conditioning applications. 3 Heat loss from the duct is negligible. 4 The house is air-tight and thus no air is leaking in or out of the room.

Properties The gas constant of air is R = 0.287 kPa.m3/kg.K (Table A-1). Also, cp = 1.007 kJ/kg•K for air at room temperature (Table A-15) and cv = cp – R = 0.720 kJ/kg•K.

Analysis (a) We first take the air in the room as the system. This is a constant volume closed system since no mass crosses the system boundary. The energy balance for the room can be expressed as

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