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Problem Set 1 For All The Problems State The Assumptions You Consider Clearly

This document contains 8 thermodynamics problems related to topics like gas and steam processes, heat transfer, and properties of substances. It provides the assumptions, conditions, and relevant property data for each problem. Students are asked to determine values like work, temperature, mass flow rate, velocity, enthalpy, and heat duty based on the constant pressure, volume, temperature or enthalpy relationships given.

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Problem Set 1 For All The Problems State The Assumptions You Consider Clearly

This document contains 8 thermodynamics problems related to topics like gas and steam processes, heat transfer, and properties of substances. It provides the assumptions, conditions, and relevant property data for each problem. Students are asked to determine values like work, temperature, mass flow rate, velocity, enthalpy, and heat duty based on the constant pressure, volume, temperature or enthalpy relationships given.

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CL 607: Advanced Thermodynamics Fall - 2010

Problem Set 1
For all the problems state the assumptions you consider clearly.

Problem 1
A gas in a piston-cylinder assembly undergoes an expansion process for which the
relationship between pressure and volume is given by
PVn = constant
The initial pressure is 3 bar, the initial volume is 0.1m3 and the final volume is 0.2m3.
Determine the work for the process, in kJ, if (a) n = 1.5 (b) n = 1.0 and (c) n = 0.
Derive the expressions for work done in all three cases.

Problem 2

Nitrogen flows at a steady state through a horizontal, insulated pipe with inside diameter
38.1 mm. A pressure drop results from flow through a partially opened valve. Just
upstream of the valve the pressure is 690 kPa, the temperature is 49 deg C and the
average velocity is 6.09 m/s. If the pressure just downstream from the valve is 138 kPa,
what is the temperature? Assume for Nitrogen that PV/T = constant, Cv = 2.5R and Cp =
3.5R with R = 8.314 J/mol K

Problem 3

An insulated electrically heated tank for hot water contains 190 kg of liquid water at 60
deg C when a power outage occurs. If water is withdrawn from the tank at a steady rate
of 0.2 kg/sec, how long will it take for the temperature of the water in the tank to drop
from 60 deg C to 35 deg C? Assume that cold water enters the tank at 10 deg C and the
heat losses from the tank are negligible. For liquid water, let C = Cp = Cv, independent of
temperature and pressure.

Problem 4

A feed water heater operating at a steady state has two inlets and one exit. At inlet 1,
water vapour enters at 7 bar, 200 deg C with mass flow rate of 40 kg/sec. At inlet 2,
liquid water at 7 bar , 40 deg C enter through an area of 25 sq. cm. Saturated liquid at 7
bar exits with a volumetric flow rate of 0.06m3/sec. Determine the mass flow rates at the
inlet 2 and the exit, in kg/sec and the velocity at inlet 2, in m/sec.
Given specific volume of water at inlet 2 is 1.0078*10-3 m3/kg and at exit is 1.108*10-3
m3/kg.

Problem 5

Steam flows at steady-state through a converging insulated nozzle, 25 cm long and with
an inlet diameter of 5 cm. At nozzle entrance (state 1), the temperature and pressure are
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CL 607: Advanced Thermodynamics Fall - 2010

598.15 K and 700 kPa and the velocity of 30 m/s. At the nozzle exit (state 2), the steam
temperature and pressure are 513.15 K and 350 kPa.
Data given:
H1 = 3112.5 kJ/kg V1 = 388.61 cc/gm
H2 = 2945.7 kJ/kg V2 = 667.75 cc/gm
What is the velocity of the steam at the nozzle exit, and what is the exit diameter?

Problem 6

Steam enters a nozzle at a velocity of 40 m/s and enthalpy of 681.4 kJ/kg. It leaves the
nozzle at a velocity of 700 m/s. The mass flow rate through the nozzle is 1500 kg/hr. The
heat lost from the nozzle is 3000 kJ/hr. Determine the final enthalpy of steam and nozzle
exit area if the specific volume at exit is 1.24 m3/kg.

Problem 7

Calculate the heat required to raise the temperature of 1 mole of CH4 from 533.15 K to
873.15 K in a steady flow process at a pressure sufficiently low that CH4 may be
considered an ideal gas. The molar heat capacity of CH4 in the ideal gas state is given as
a function of temperature in Kelvin by
CPig
1.702 9.081 10 3 T 2.164 10 6 T 2
R

Problem 8

One hundred kmol per hr of subcooled liquid methanol at 300 K and 3 bar is superheated
to 500 K in a steady flow heat exchanger. Estimate the exchanger duty (in kW) required.
Given data :-
Saturation temperature of liquid methanol at 3 bar = 368 K
Critical point Tc = 512.6 K, Pc = 80.97 bars
Normal boiling point at 1 atm = 337.9 K
For methanol vapour, A = 2.211, B = 12.216*10-3, C = -3.45*10-6
For methanol liquid, A = 13.431, B = -51.28*10-3, C = 131.13*10-6

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