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INDIVIDUAL ASSIGNMENT
(74 marks)
INSTRUCTIONS
Note
The main test includes theory questions whereas this preparation
homework does not.
Question 1 [17 marks]
0.15 m3 of an ideal gas at a pressure of 15 bar and 550 K is expanded isothermally to 4 times
the initial volume. It is then cooled to 290 K at constant volume and then compressed back
polytropically to its initial state.
1.2 Calculate the net work done and heat transferred during the cycle.
Question 2 [7 marks]
Air flows steadily at the rate of 0.4 kg/s through an air compressor, entering at 6 m/s with a
pressure of 1 bar and a specific volume of 0.85 m3/kg, and leaving at 4.5 m/s with a pressure
of 6.9 bar and a specific volume of 0.16 m3/kg. The temperature of air leaving is 87.56 K
greater than that of the air entering. Cooling water in a jacket surrounding the cylinder absorbs
heat from the air at the rate of 59 kJ/s.
Steam at 10 bar and 0.95 dryness is available. Determine the final condition of steam in each
of the following operations:
3.2 It is cooled at constant volume till the temperature inside falls to 140°C.
3.3 Steam expands isentropically in a steam turbine to an exit pressure of steam of 0.5 bar.
Question 4 [23 marks]
A reversible heat engine operates between two reservoirs at temperatures 700°C and 50°C.
The engine drives a reversible refrigerator which operates between reservoirs at temperatures
of 50°C and – 25°C. The heat transfer to the engine is 2500 kJ and the net work output of the
combined engine refrigerator plant is 400 kJ.
4.1 Determine the heat transfer to the refrigerant and the net heat transfer to the reservoir
at 50°C
4.2 Reconsider 4.1 given that the efficiency of the heat engine and the C.O.P. of the
refrigerator are each 45 per cent of their maximum possible values.
Question 5 [7 marks]
Power developed 75 kW
Using calculations based of thermodynamics, state whether his claim is valid or not.
Question 6 [8 marks]
Five kg of water is contained in a piston–cylinder assembly, initially at 5 bar and 240°C. The
water is slowly heated at constant pressure to a final state. If the heat transfer for the process
is 2960 kJ, determine the temperature at the final state, in °C, and the work, in kJ. Kinetic and
potential energy effects are negligible.