Consider a refrigeration truck traveling at 55 mph
at a location where the air temperature is 808F. The
refrigerated compartment of the truck can be considered
to be a 9-ft-wide, 8-ft-high, and 20-ft-long rectangular
box. The refrigeration system of the truck can provide
3 tons of refrigeration (i.e., it can remove heat at a rate of
600 Btu/min). The outer surface of the truck is coated with
a low-emissivity material, and thus radiation heat transfer is
very small. Determine the average temperature of the outer
surface of the refrigeration compartment of the truck if the
refrigeration system is observed to be operating at half the
capacity. Assume the air flow over the entire outer surface
to be turbulent and the heat transfer coefficient at the front
and rear surfaces to be equal to that on side surfaces. For air
properties evaluations assume a film temperature of 808F. Is
this a good assumption?