Project 2 Heat Transfer

The glass in a single-glazed window of a house is to be replaced with a double-glazed unit.

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Figure 2. Example of double window (KLG Rutland)

The air fills the gap between the double-glazed unit's panes, which offers negligible resistance to heat transfer

resistances at interior glass surfaces. If the room temperature in the house is maintained at 20 °C and the outside air

temperature is 0 °C, the rate of heat loss per unit area is 32.8 W m-². Design a double window for this room by

determining the thickness of each glass and the area of the window and draw your window design in Solidworksor

similar CAD software. You should provide the correct assumptions for your design. Please take all the air and glass

properties from an online database (e.g https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/).