ME4202501 Thermodynamics I, Fall term 2015

Practice 12 2015/12/29

1. One kilogram of water at 500C and one kilogram of saturated water vapor, both at 200 kPa, are mixed
in a constant-pressure adiabatic process. Find the final temperature and the entropy generation for the
process.

2. A cylinder fitted with a movable piston contains water at 3 MPa with 50% quality, at which point the
volume is 20 L. The water now expands to 1.5 MPa as a result of receiving 600 kJ of heat from a
larger sources at 300C. It is claimed that the water does 124 kJ of work during the process. Is this
possible?

3. Air at 1 bar, 300 K is compressed to 4 bar 500 K by a compressor. At steady state, the air flow rate is
0.2 kg/s. The compressor is insulated. Assume the air is an ideal gas and kinetic and potential energy
effects are negligible. ( R 8.314 kJ/kmol-K ; M air 28.97 kg/kmol )
(a) Determine the power requirement for the compressor, in kW.
(b) Determine the isentropic efficiency.

4. A mass of 1 kg of air contained in a cylinder at 1.5 MPa, 1000 K, expands in a reversible isothermal
process to a volume 10 times larger. The air is an ideal gas.
(a) Express the heat transfer Q in terms of m, R, T, v2 and v1.
(b) Calculate the heat transfer during the process, in kJ.
(c) Calculate the change of entropy of the air, in kJ/K.

5. 1-kg air in a piston-cylinder assembly is compressed from state 1, where T1 200 K, V1 1 m3, to

sate 2, where T2 300 K. If the change in specific entropy is s2 s1 0.27 kJ/kg-K.

(a) Determine the final volume, in m3, by assuming a constant specific heat ratio of k 1.4
(b) Determine the final volume, in m3, by using the given ideal gas table.

6. Water vapor at 6 MPa, 600C enters a turbine operating at steady state and expands to 10 kPa. The mass
flow rate is 2 kg/s and the power developed is 2626 kW. Stray heat transfer and kinetic and potential
energy effects are negligible. Determine
(a) the isentropic turbine efficiency and
(b) rate of entropy production within the turbine, in kW/K.

7. Air at 25C, 100 kPa enters a compressor operating at steady state and exits at 260C, 650 kPa. Stray
heat transfer and kinetic and potential energy effects are negligible. Modeling ar as an ideal gas with k
= 1.4, determine the isentropic compressor efficiency.