After question 1 was solved in 1 day (see here:
viewtopic.php?f=23&t=30110) by Schwer_Punkt_91, I thought I'd up the difficulty slightly. I will wait until the 16th to post the solution.
Difficulty: 6/10PHYSICS / MECHANICAL ENGINEERING / CHEMICAL ENGINEERING: Transport Phenomena, Thermal Heat Transfer
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A step in the manufacture of metallic spherical ball bearings (made of stainless steel 316, density of 8028 kg/m^3) includes thermal treatment, in which
the spheres are heated to a uniform temperature of 843°C in a furnace. The ball bearings that come out
of the furnace are placed on a conveyor belt for transport to an oil bath. The spheres remain 3 minutes
on the conveyor belt where they cool by natural convection (h=1 W/m^2 K) by contact with air at 35°C.
After that, they are dropped into a perfectly mixed oil bath in which the oil is kept at a constant
temperature of 25°C. The motion of the oil in the bath is fast enough to consider that heat transfer by
convection from the spheres to the oil is very fast (assume h = infinity). The spheres remain (briefly) in the bath until the
temperature at their center reaches 28°C. Determine the time that the spheres must remain in the oil
bath. The diameter of the spheres is 2 cm. Other information about the spheres: Cp=503 J/kg K, k=16 W/m K
First person to post the correct time gets the prize.