UNIVERSITY OF TABUK

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Thermodynamics -2 : ME 323

Homework # X
Thermodynamics with fundamentals

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Dr. Hossam S.S. AbdelMeguid

Fall 2018
Determine the entropy change of 4 kg of a perfect gas whose temperature varies
from 127C to 227C during a constant volume process. The specific heat varies
linearly with absolute temperature and is represented by the relation :
cv = (0.48 + 0.0096 T) kJ/kg K.

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The specific heats of a gas vary linearly with absolute temperature according to the
following relations :
cp = (0.85 + 0.00025 T ) kg/kg K, and
cv = (0.56 + 0.00025 T ) kJ/kg K
If the entropy of the gas at 1 bar pressure and 273 K is zero, find the entropy of the
gas at 25 bar and 750 K temperature.

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1 kg of oxygen at 1 bar and 450 K is mixed with 1 kg of hydrogen at the same
temperature and pressure by removing the diaphragm as shown in the Fig. Determine
the loss in availability if the surrounding temperature is 290 K. Assume that the
system is fully isolated.

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Calculate the decrease in available energy (exergy) when 20 kg of water at 90C
mixes with 30 kg of water at 30C, the pressure being taken as constant and the
temperature of the surroundings being 10C. Take cp of water as 4.18 kJ/kg K.

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One kg-mol of oxygen undergoes a reversible non-flow isothermal compression and
the volume decreases from 0.2 m3/kg to 0.08 m3/kg and the initial temperature is
60C. If the gas obeys Van der Waals equation find :
(i) The work done during the process (ii) The final pressure.
The
(ii)Van der Waals equation is written as

where p = pressure of the gas ; a, b = constants ; v = molar volume ; R0 = universal gas constant
For O2 :
a = 139250 Jm3/(kg-mol)2 b = 0.0314 m3/kg-mol R0 = 8314 J/kg-mol K

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