DAYANANDA SAGAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT OF AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING

IV SEM, B.E (2011-12)

Applied Thermodynamics

ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS FOR 1st TEST

SUBJECT: APPLIED THERMODYNAMICS Sub Code: 10ME43

Assignment should be submitted within 8 days of receiving this assignment questions. Assignment should be written only in note book, not in spare papers of A4 standard size; write particulars of the student in the note book. Internal Assessment Test may not be given, if Assignment is not submitted within stipulated time. 1. What is the airfuel ratio? What does 100 percent theoretical air represent? What are the causes of incomplete combustion? Which is more likely to be found in the products of an incomplete combustion of a hydrocarbon fuel, CO or OH? Why? 2. Acetylene (C2H2) is burned with stoichiometric amount of air during a combustion process. Assuming complete combustion, determine the airfuel ratio on a mass and on a mole basis.

3. Propylene (C3H6) is burned with 50 percent excess air during a combustion process. Assuming complete combustion and a total pressure of 105 kPa, determine (a) the airfuel ratio and (b) the temperature at which the water vapor in the products will start condensing. 4. One kmol of ethane (C2H6) is burned with an unknown amount of air during a combustion process. An analysis of the combustion products reveals that the combustion is complete, and there are 3 kmol of free O2 in the products. Determine (a) the airfuel ratio and (b) the percentage of theoretical air used during this process.

5. Propal alcohol (C3H7OH) is burned with 50 percent excess air. Write the balanced reaction equation for complete combustion and determine the air-to-fuel ratio. 6. What is enthalpy of combustion? How does it differ from the enthalpy of reaction? What is enthalpy of formation? How does it differ from the enthalpy of combustion? What are the higher and the lower heating values of a fuel? How do they differ? How is the heating value of a fuel related to the enthalpy of combustion of that fuel? When are the enthalpy of formation and the enthalpy of combustion identical? Does the enthalpy of formation of a substance change with temperature?

7. Determine the enthalpy of combustion of methane (CH4) at 25C and 1 atm, using the enthalpy of formation data from data handbook. Assume that the water in the products is in the liquid form. 8. A 6-m3 rigid tank initially contains a mixture of 1 k mol of hydrogen (H2) gas and the stoichiometric amount of air at 25C. The contents of the tank are ignited, and all the hydrogen in the fuel burns to H2O. If the combustion products are cooled to 25C, determine (a) the fraction of the H2O that condenses and (b) the heat transfer from the combustion chamber during this process.

9. Calculate the enthalpy of combustion for gaseous methane at 500 K. 10. Calculate the adiabatic flame temperature for liquid octane burning with 200 percent theoretical air at 298 K. 11. A four-cylinder, four-stroke spark-ignition engine operates on the ideal Otto cycle with a compression ratio of and a total displacement volume of 1.8 liter. The air is at 90 k Pa and 50C at the beginning of the compression process. The heat input is 1.5 kJ per cycle per cylinder. Accounting for the variation of specific heats of air with temperature, determine (a) the maximum temperature and pressure that occur during the cycle, (b) the net work per cycle per cylinder and the thermal efficiency of the cycle, (c) the mean effective pressure, and (d) the power output for an engine speed of 3000 rpm. 12. An air-standard Diesel cycle has a compression ratio of 16 and a cutoff ratio of 2. At the

beginning of the compression process, air is at 95 kPa and 27C. Accounting for the variation of specific heats with temperature, determine (a) the temperature after the heataddition process, (b) the thermal efficiency, and (c) the mean effective pressure.

13. An air-standard cycle with variable specific heats is executed in a closed system and is composed of the following four processes: 1-2 Isentropic compression from 100 kPa and 27C to 800 kPa 2-3 v = constant heat addition to 1800 K 3-4 Isentropic expansion to 100 kPa 4-1 P = constant heat rejection to initial state (a) Show the cycle on P-v and T-s diagrams. (b) Calculate the net work output per unit mass. (c) Determine the thermal efficiency.

Date of issue of assignment questions: 03-03-2012 Date of Assignment submission: 10-03-2012