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This document contains 5 questions from a tutorial on thermodynamics. Question 1 asks about the entropy change of steam during a phase change process in a well-insulated tank. Question 2 involves sketching pressure-entropy processes and calculating heat and work values for steam in a piston-cylinder device. Question 3 asks about the final temperature and work done during an adiabatic compression process of helium gas. Question 4 involves calculating mass flow rates of nitrogen through compressors using different compression processes. Question 5 asks about exit velocity and temperature of combustion gases in a turbojet engine nozzle.

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Tutorial 7 Problems

This document contains 5 questions from a tutorial on thermodynamics. Question 1 asks about the entropy change of steam during a phase change process in a well-insulated tank. Question 2 involves sketching pressure-entropy processes and calculating heat and work values for steam in a piston-cylinder device. Question 3 asks about the final temperature and work done during an adiabatic compression process of helium gas. Question 4 involves calculating mass flow rates of nitrogen through compressors using different compression processes. Question 5 asks about exit velocity and temperature of combustion gases in a turbojet engine nozzle.

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INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR

ESO 201A: Thermodynamics


(2023-24 I Semester)
Instructor: Dr Avinash Kumar Agarwal

Tutorial 7
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Question 1: A well-insulated rigid tank contains 3 kg of a saturated liquid–vapor mixture


of water at 200 kPa. Initially, three quarters of the mass is in the liquid phase. An electric
resistance heater placed in the tank is now turned on and kept on until all the liquid in
the tank is vaporized. Determine the entropy change of the steam during this process.
(Ans: 11.1 kJ/K)

Fig. 1
Question 2: A piston–cylinder device contains 5 kg of steam at 100°C with a quality of 50
percent. This steam undergoes two processes as follows:

1-2: Heat is transferred to the steam in a reversible manner while the temperature is
held constant until the steam exists as a saturated vapor.

2-3: The steam expands in an adiabatic, reversible process until the pressure is 15 kPa.

(a) Sketch these processes with respect to the saturation lines on a single T-s diagram.

(b) Determine the heat transferred to the steam in process 1-2, in kJ.

(c) Determine the work done by the steam in process 2-3, in kJ.

(Ans: (b) 5641 kJ (c) 1291 kJ)

Question 3: Helium gas is compressed from 90 kPa and 30°C to 450 kPa in a reversible,
adiabatic process. Determine the final temperature and the work done, assuming the
process takes place (a) in a piston–cylinder device and (b) in a steady-flow compressor.
(Ans: (a) 576.9 K, 853.4 kJ/kg (b) 1422.3 kJ/kg)

Question 4: Nitrogen gas is compressed from 80 kPa and 27°C to 480 kPa by a 10-kW
compressor. Determine the mass flow rate of nitrogen through the compressor, assuming
the compression process to be (a) isentropic, (b) polytropic with n = 1.3, (c) isothermal, and
(d) ideal two-stage polytropic with n = 1.3. (Ans: (a) 0.048 kg/s (b) 0.051 kg/s (c) 0.063
kg/s (d) 0.056 kg/s)
Question 5: Hot combustion gases enter the nozzle of a turbojet engine at 260 kPa, 747°C,
and 80 m/s, and they exit at a pressure of 85 kPa. Assuming an isentropic efficiency of 92
percent and treating the combustion gases as air, determine (a) the exit velocity and (b)
the exit temperature. (Ans: (a) 728 m/s (b) 786 K)

Fig. 2

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