GATE AE · 2026 · AE
Question 53: Basics
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Question 53
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A furnace of 250 MW rating is used to melt and raise the temperature of aluminum from 25 °C to 900 °C. Aluminum has a solid-state specific heat, latent heat, and liquid-state specific heat of 0.9 kJ/kg-K, 390 kJ/kg, and 1.08 kJ/kg-K, respectively, and the furnace has 70% efficiency. The melting point of aluminum is 660 °C. The amount of aluminum that can be processed per hour is ________ kg (rounded off to 1 decimal place).
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GATE AE 2026 · Paper 1
Aerospace Engineering · Original paper archive
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- Aerospace Engineering
- Question type
- Numerical answer (NAT)
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- 2 marks
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