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This document contains the instructions for Assignment #4 of the course CHE 243: Engineering Thermodynamics being offered during the Winter term of 2008 at the Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering. It includes 5 problems related to thermodynamic processes involving systems like piston-cylinder devices containing water and air, undergoing processes like heating, cooling, evaporation and expansion. The students are asked to determine values like pressure, temperature, phase, heat transfer, work done during the processes and depict the processes on P-V diagrams. They are required to submit their solutions by 3:00 PM on February 07, 2008.

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Assignment # 4 (Chapter 5) Due 3:00 PM of February 07, 2008 1

This document contains the instructions for Assignment #4 of the course CHE 243: Engineering Thermodynamics being offered during the Winter term of 2008 at the Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering. It includes 5 problems related to thermodynamic processes involving systems like piston-cylinder devices containing water and air, undergoing processes like heating, cooling, evaporation and expansion. The students are asked to determine values like pressure, temperature, phase, heat transfer, work done during the processes and depict the processes on P-V diagrams. They are required to submit their solutions by 3:00 PM on February 07, 2008.

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Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering

CHE 243: Engineering Thermodynamics


Winter term of 2008

Assignment # 4 (Chapter 5) Due 3:00 PM of February 07, 2008

1. A piston–cylinder device contains 5 kg of water at 300 kPa and 25°C. The cross-
sectional area of the piston is 0.1 m2. Heat is now transferred to the water, causing part
of it to evaporate and expand. When the volume reaches 0.1 m3, the piston reaches a
linear spring whose spring constant is 150 kN/m. More heat is transferred to the water
until the piston rises 30 cm more. Determine:
(a) The final pressure temperature,
(b) The total amount of the boundary work for this process,
(c) The water phase and the temperature at State 2,
(d) The total amount the heat transferred to system,
(e) Show the process on a P-V diagram.

2. An insulated piston–cylinder device contains 5 L of saturated liquid water at a constant


pressure of 175 kPa. Water is stirred by a paddle wheel while a current of 8 A and a
voltage of 220 V flows through a resistor placed in the water. If all of the liquid is
evaporated (saturated vapour) during this constant pressure process and the paddle-
wheel work amounts to 400 kJ, determine the time needed to for the resistor to be on.
Also, show the process on a P-v diagram with respect to saturation lines.
3. A piston-cylinder has 0.5 kg of air at 2000 kPa, 1000 K as shown below. The cylinder
has stops, so Vmin = 0.03 m3. The air now cools to 400 K by heat transfer to the
ambient. Find the final volume and pressure of the air (does it hit the stops?) and the
work and heat transfer in the process.

4. A piston-cylinder arrangement has a linear spring and the outside atmosphere acting on
the piston shown below. It contains water at 3 MPa and 400°C with a volume of 0.1
m3. If the piston is at the bottom, the spring exerts a force such that a pressure of 200
kPa inside is required to balance the forces. The system now cools until the pressure
reaches 1MPa. Find the heat transfer for the process.

5. A piston-cylinder arrangement B is connected to a 1-m3 tank A by a line and valve,


shown below. Initially both A and B contain water, with A at 100 kPa, saturated vapor
and B at 400°C, 300 kPa, 1 m3. The valve is now opened, and the water in both A and
B comes to a uniform state.
a. Find the initial mass in A and B.
b. If the process results in T2 = 200°C, find the heat transfer and the boundary
work.

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