Thermodynamics Homework 5 due Friday September 27th

This assignment must be completed in your assigned teams. You only need to include your team number, which is available on D2L (click Grades at the top of the course page).

1. 5 kg of water is heated from a saturated liquid at 150C to 375C in the piston-cylinder device. Draw the transition from State 1 to State 2 on a P-V diagram (use the button in EES to make one, and then draw on that). How much boundary work was done? How much heat was added?
105 104 103
150C 375C

Water

P [kPa]

102 101 100 10-1 10-3

10-2

10-1

100

101

102

103

v [m /kg]

2. Consider two piston-cylinder devices: Device A contains water and Device B contains air. When they are heated, they each lift a weight that keeps the pressure at 126 psia. In Device A, 1 in3 of water is heated from 70F to 264F. Device B contains the same volume of air at 70F, which is also heated to 264F. For diagram (use the both devices, draw the state transition on a button in EES to make one for water, and then draw on that). Highlight what feature on the graph represents the amount of boundary work done per unit mass. How much heat was required in both cases to make the transition (in Btu)? How much boundary work was done? In both cases, what is the thermal efficiency, (what fraction of the heat was converted to work)? Which one produced the most work? Which one had the highest thermal efficiency? Why might this be the case?

3. 1 lbm of saturated water is boiled off in the device to the right. a. Make a graph of quality versus time. How long does it take for all of the water to boil off? b. On a second graph plot two curves: 1. The electrical energy added to the water and 2. the work done by the water, both as functions of time. What percent of the energy added was converted into work by the time all of the water boiled off?

340 lb

1.0

0.8

0.6

x2
0.4 0.2 0.0 0

10

20

30

tmin [min]

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800
DU

DELTAU, Wb

600

Wb

400

200

0 0

10

20

30

tmin [min]

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of air is contained in a piston-cylinder device at a constant pressure. It is heated from to by an electrical heater inside the cylinder. During the process, 57 Btu of heat is lost. How much electrical energy was supplied, in Btu?

33*0.172*(170-77) + 33*0.06855*(170-77) + 57 = 795 Btu