Hi Everyone,

Engineers or designers who need to transport hot fluids through pipe over a distance need to account for the natural heat loss that will occur along the way. These thermodynamic calculations can be quite complex unless certain assumptions are made, one being steady conditions and the other a lack of convection in the area of the pipe. So, anyone having brilliant idea to calculate the heat loss in a pipe, please share with me.

Thanks a lot!
Harry Potterish

A set of modified wheatstone bridge could do the trick. Replacing the measurement resistor with a thermistor(temperature dependent resistor) that is inserted inside the pipe at different points along the pipe line will provide you with temperature differences along the pipe line. With the temperature differences you can compute heat loss.