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Tutorial No. 2
Questions


1. For methyl chloride at 100 C the second and the third viral coefficients are:

Calculate V and Z for methyl chloride at 100 and 55 bar by
(a) The ideal-gas equation
(b) Truncated virial equation (2 terms)
(c) Truncated virial equation (3 terms)
3. An automobile engine consumes fuel at a rate of 28 L/h and delivers 60 kW of power to the
wheels. If the fuel has a heating value of 44,000 kJ/kg and a density of 0.8 kg/L, determine the
efficiency of this engine.
4. The following heat engine produces power of 95000 kW. Determine in each case the rates at
which heat is absorbed from the hot reservoir and discarded to the cold reservoir.
(a) A Carnot engine operates between heat reservoirs at 750 K and 300K
(b) A practical engine operates between the same heat reservoirs but with a thermal
efficiency 0.35.
5. A particular power plant operates with a heat source at 350 C and a heat sink reservoir at 30
C. It has a thermal efficiency equal to 55% of the Carnot-engine thermal efficiency for the
same temperatures.

(a) What is the thermal efficiency of the plant?
(b) To what temperature must the heat source reservoir be raised to increase the thermal
efficiency of the plant to 35%? Again, is 55% of the Carnot- engine value?

6. An inventor claims to have developed power cycle capable of delivering a net work output of
410 kJ for an energy input by heat transfer of 1000 kJ. The system undergoing the cycle
receives the heat transfer from hot gases at a temperature of 500K and discharges energy by
heat transfer to the atmosphere at 300 K. Evaluate this claim

7. A rigid vessel of 0.06m
3
volume contains an ideal gas, C
v
= (5/2)R, at 500 K and 1 bar.

(a) If heat in the amount of 15 000 J is transferred to the gas, determine its entropy change.
(b) If the vessel is fitted with a stirrer that is rotated by a shaft so that work in the amount of
15000 J is done on the gas, what is the entropy change of the gas which enters the
process is adiabatic? What is S
total
? What is the irreversible feature of the process?

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8. An ideal gas with constant heat capacities undergoes a change of state of conditions T
1
, P
1
to
conditions T
2
, P
2
. Determine H (J mol
-1
) and S (J mol
-1
K
-1
) . Given, R = 8.31 J/mol K
(a) T
1
= 450 K, P
1
= 10 bar, T
2
= 300 K, P
2
= 2 bar, Given, Cp/R =5/2
(b) T
1
= 400K, P
1
= 6 bar, T
2
= 300 K, P
2
= 1.2 bar, Given, Cp/R =9/2
9. Reversible adiabatic processes are isentropic or not? Justify your answer.

10. 10 kmol per hour of air is throttled from upstream conditions of 25 C and 10 bar to a
downstream pressure of 1.2 bar. Assume air to be an ideal gas with Cp/R =7/2.
(a) What is the downstream temperature?
(b) What is the entropy change of the air in J/mol K?
(c) What is the rate of entropy generation in W K
-1
?
(d) If the surroundings are at 20 C, What is the lost work?