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Example Question Using Refrigerant

This document provides example questions and calculations involving R-134a refrigerant as a pure substance. 1) An 80L vessel contains 4kg of R-134a at 160kPa. The temperature is -15.6°C, the quality is 0.157, the enthalpy is 64.2 kJ/kg, and the vapor phase volume is 77.5L. 2) A vessel contains 2kg of R-134a at 800kPa and 120°C. The volume is 0.07525 m3 and the total internal energy is 327.87 kJ/kg. 3) A 0.5m3 vessel contains 10kg of R-134a

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Example Question Using Refrigerant

This document provides example questions and calculations involving R-134a refrigerant as a pure substance. 1) An 80L vessel contains 4kg of R-134a at 160kPa. The temperature is -15.6°C, the quality is 0.157, the enthalpy is 64.2 kJ/kg, and the vapor phase volume is 77.5L. 2) A vessel contains 2kg of R-134a at 800kPa and 120°C. The volume is 0.07525 m3 and the total internal energy is 327.87 kJ/kg. 3) A 0.5m3 vessel contains 10kg of R-134a

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Example question using R-134a as pure substance

1) An 80L vessel contains 4 kg of refrigerant-134a at a pressure of 160kPa.


Determine:a.
b.
c.
d.

temperature
quality
enthalpy
volume occupied by vapour phase

Answer
a) Temperature
Total specific volume:
v

V
0.080m3

0.02 m3 / kg
m
4kg

At 160kPa, refer Table A-12


f =0.0007437 m3/kg
g=0.12348 m3/kg
Hence to identify the phase, compare the specific volume of vapour and liquid with total
specific volume, thus:
f < V < g (Saturated Liquid Vapor Mixture)
T= -15.60OC (Refer Table A-12)
b) Quality, x
x

V vf
0.02 0.0007437 m3 / kg

0.157
v fg
0.12348 0.0007437 m3 / kg

c) Enthalpy,h

Based on Table A-12 at P=160Kpa

hf =31.21 kJ/kg
hfg =209.90 kJ/kg
h h f xh fg
h 31.21kJ / kg (0.157)( 209.90kJ / kg )
h 64.2kJ / kg

d) Vvapor
Vg m g v g

So need to find mass of vapour:


mg xmt
mg (0.157 )( 4kg )
m g 0.628kg

Then:
Vg m g v g
Vg (0.628kg )(0.12348m3 / kg )
Vg 0.0775m3 @ 77.5 L

2) A rigid vessel contains 2 kg of R-134a at 800kPa and 120oC.


Determine:a. volume of vessel
b. total internal energy
Answer
b) Volume of vessel
First need to identify the phase:-

Given temperature and pressure, but in Table A-11, maximum temperature is 100oC, so we
use Pressure table (A-12) to compare Tsat with given temperature in the question
Tsat: 31.31OC (A-12)
T > Tsat so this system are Superheated (Refer lecture notes)
So based on Table A-13 (Superheated), the total specific volume is 0.037625 m3/kg (800kPa
and 120oC.)
Hence the volume can be calculated using this formula:
V mv
V (0.037625m3 / kg )( 2kg )
V 0.07525

b) Total internal energy


Can be obtained from Table A-13 (800kPa and 120oC) = 327.87 kJ/kg

3) A 0.5m3 vessel contains 10kg of R-134a at -20oC.


Determine:a. the pressure
b. total internal energy
c. volume occupied by liquid phase
a) The pressure
At given temperature, the Psat: 132.82kPa (A-11)
b) Total internal energy
Equation for total internal energy is:
u u f xu fg

Where:
uf:25.39 kJ/kg

ug:193.45 kJ/kg
x: unknown
So the x value needs to calculate, since the total specific volume can be obtained and also the
specific volume of vapour & liquid from the Table A-11, the x value can be determined:
V

v
0.5m3

0.05m3
m
10kg

f: 0.0007362 m3/kg
g: 0.14729 m3/kg
v fg v g v f 0.14729m3 / kg 0.0007362m3 / kg

v v f xv fg
x

vvf
v fg

0.05m3 / kg 0.0007362m3 / kg
0.1466m3 / kg

0.336

The U value can be calculated:


u u f xu fg
u 25.39kJ / kg (0.336)(193.45kJ / kg ) 90.41kJ / kg

c) Volume occupied by liquid phase


V mf vf

So need to find mass of vapour:


x

mvapor
mtotal

0.336

mvapor

10kg
mvapor 3.36kg

V mf vf
V (6.64kg )(0.0007362m3 / kg )
V 0.004888m3

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