Assignment3 Solution
Assignment3 Solution
3.4 An open container of pure ethanol (ethyl alcohol) liquid is placed on a table in a room.
Evaporation occurs until all the ethanol is gone. Where did the ethanol go? If the ethanol and the
room air are taken to be a closed system, can the system be regarded as a pure substance during the
process? How many phases are present initially and finally? Explain.
The ethanol evaporated into the room and got mixed with the air in the room.
As there were 2 phases initially so the system is not a pure substance but at the end when ethanol phase
changed from liquid to gas and got mixed with the air uniformly then the system became pure
substance but throughout the process the system cannot be regarded as the pure substance.
Initially there were 2 phases within the closed system and finally the system had vapour phase.
3.9 Complete the following exercises. In each case locate the state on sketches of the T–υ and p–υ
diagrams.
a. Four kg of water at 100°C fills a closed container having a volume of 1 m3. If the water at this state is
a vapor, determine the pressure, in bar. If the water is a two-phase liquid–vapor mixture, determine
the quality.
v = ¼ = 0.25 m3/kg
b. Ammonia at a pressure of 40 lbf/in2 has a specific internal energy of 308.75 Btu/lb. Determine the
specific volume at the state, in ft3/lb.
At critical point Tc= 705.44 ° F, Pc= 3208.6 lb/in2 , u1=872.6 Btu /lb, v1= 0.0505
3.44 As shown in Fig. P3.44, a closed, rigid tank fitted with a fine-wire electric resistor is filled with
Refrigerant 22, initially at −10°C, a quality of 80%, and a volume of 0.01 m3. A 12-volt battery provides
a 5-amp current to the resistor for 5 minutes. If the final temperature of the refrigerant is 40°C,
determine the heat transfer, in kJ, from the refrigerant.
T2 = 40 °C
3.62 Determine the volume, in m3, occupied by 2 kg of H2O at 100 bar, 400°C, using
From table A-18 when pressure is 2 bar and the specific volume is 0.307 m3/kg, temperature is 60 °C i.e.
333K .
For propane Pc= 42.7 bar, Tc=370 K, M=44.09 kg/mol,
T=325.6K → T=52.6 °C