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30. In a reciprocating steam engine, the average
pressure of steam is 50 N cm~?, The length of
half stroke is 50 cm and area of cross section of
the piston is 400 cm?. If the engine is making 300
strokes per minute, calculate power of the engine
in kW. [Ans. 200 kW]
31. In a petrol engine, the rate of combustion of fuel
is 5 kg h71. The calorific value of petrol is 106
cal. kg~'. If the efficiency of the engine is 30% ,
calculate the power of the engine. Take J = 4-2
J cal}, [Ans. 1750 W]
32. An engine developes 33250 W power, consuming
10 kg fuel per hour. If the calorific value of the
fuel is 11400 cal. g~1, find the efficiency of the
engine. [Ans. 25%]
Calculate the amount of heat energy required by
a petrol engine to do 10 k Wh of work, given °
adiabatic compression ratio of the engine is 10
and y = 1-4. [Ans. 1-424 x 107 cal,]
A carnot engine takes in 1000 k cal of heat from
a reservoir at 627°C and exhausts heat to sink at
27°C. What is its efficiency ? What is useful work
done/cycle by the engine.
[Ans, 66-67% ; 2.79 x 106 J]
35, A Carnot engine has the same efficiency
(@ between 100 K and 500 K and
33.
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‘ culate difference in efficiencies of "18 i]
” engine working between 2 canny
(i) 400 Kand 350 K (ii) 350 Kang 300
: [Ans, 1. 8%
a7. Acarnot en gine, whose temperature of tp, 6
is 400 K. receives 200 calories of heat 1
temperature and rejects 150 calories of hea is
the sink. What is the temperature of the tink 9
Also, calculate the efficiency of the engine, 2
[Ans. 300 K,25% 1
De rates inacarnot cycle
Tt absorbs 6-0 x 19!
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king bet oth %
et engine worl tees an) ty,
sie (400 Kand 350 lid “ia, MN '
ae "\ ‘ i
pool af, Acarnot engine, -HO9e ty wy Sw )
of IE is 400 K. receive 0 ra rally ’
st temperature and rejeg stg )
pir) the sink. What is the ae Sai wa! y
yagi Aiso, calculate the ome crn Ne a % !
af of
peal tbeagtesa |
38, An ideal gas heat enging "oh (ay, oN cig
ef) between 227°C ang 4 T'Sin, '
seit calories at the higher re. eco Ir
‘ea. work Per gyle ig per
rand performing ? “ane x “S
oe 39, Inacamot engine, the tem, per tase q
of hot and sink are 500 K ang ange K nite oy re )
00K) engine consumes 699 x 103 ca tig
elsienyof engine (i) yon work gal, srt
5 rejected per cycle, ya iii !
[Ans. 259, . 63x fy. hy |
erage
40 In a retigerator, heat fr, a
snot transferred toa room 4 200% 4
foo of heat will be det nee va
420 joule of electrical energy con Steet
aly)
gine ?
a]
Fang, 9,
41 Asoming that & domestic a
fuel regarded as a reversible en Working :
i the temperature Of melting ige and te
™, atmosphere (17°C), Calculate the enerp, te
42 must be supplied to freeze ong il loprane ich
1] already at 0°C, (Ans 2.99
Ye, 42, The elficeney of earnot yee 1 16 y 1
the the temperature of sink by by 65K, iti inten
the 1/3, Calculate initial and ad 0
5%)
ty 4g, Thetemperature T, and T, of ty
= in an ideal carnot engine are 15
i Which of these increasing T
2 Ceereasing Ty by 100°C, would re
a ‘provement of the efficiency . th
ate
[Ans. Decreasing :
Dw, 2 teligerator whose coefficient of
a
5 extracts heat from ‘the cooling
The rate of 250 Jeyete, How
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a Sard to the room ? [Ans. 50 J ; 300 J]
_ x carol engine, where heat sink is at 27°C has
& sn otticiency of 40%. It is desired to increase the
ificiency by 10%. By how much the temp. of
heat source be raised ? [Ans. 35-7 K}
‘ Areversible engine takes in heat from a Teservoir
of heat at 527°C, and gives out to the sink at
127°C. How many calories per second must it take
from the reservoir in order to produce useful
mechanical work at the rate of 750 watt ? 1 cal,
24-2). [Ans, 357-1 cal/s]
yg, Iecina cold storage melts at the rate of 2 kg per
hour when the external temperature is 20°C. Find
48.
the minimum power output of the motor used to
drive the refrigerator which just prevents the ice
from melting. ‘Take latent heat of fusion of ice =
80 cal/g and J = 4-2 J/cal. [Ans. 13-67 W]
‘Two carnot engines A and B arc operated in series.
‘The first one A receives heat at 800 K and rejects
to areservoir at T K. The second engine B receives
the heat rejected by the first engine and in turn
rejects to a heat reservoir at 300 K. Calculate the
value of T, when
(a) outputs of the two engines are equal,
(b) efficiencies of the two engines are equal.
[Ans. (a) 550 K (b) 489-9 K]
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