CHAPTER 8

EXERGY
Lecture # 6
Closed System Exergy Balance

Closed System Exergy Rate Balance

1. A heat engine receives heat from a source at 1200 K at a rate
of 500 kJ/s and rejects the waste heat to a medium at 300 K.
The power output of the heat engine is 180 kW. Determine the
reversible power and the irreversibility rate for this process,
and heat rejected to sink.
2. Calculate the loss in exergy when 25 kg of water at 95℃
mix with 35 kg of water at 35℃, the pressure being taken as
constant and the temperature of the surroundings being 15℃
( Cp of water = 4.2 kJ/kgK).
3. Water initially a saturated liquid at 150℃ (423.15 K) is
contained in a piston cylinder assembly. The water is heated to
the corresponding saturated vapor state in an internally
reversible process at constant temperature and pressure. For
T0 = 20℃ (293.15 K), p0 =1 bar, and ignoring the effects of
motion and gravity, determine per unit of mass, each in kJ/kg,
(a) the change in exergy, (b) the exergy transfer accompanying
heat transfer, (c) the exergy transfer accompanying work, and
(d) the exergy destruction.