Complex Engineering Problem

ME 231 (Section D & E)

Solve the assigned problem to each student, as provided in the list below using Engineering Equation
Solver (EES). This assignment has 10 absolute marks. You must adopt the same procedure as described in
the example (introduction to EES). The computer-generated solution must include:

1. The program code

2. p-v or T-v plots with clear labeling of states.
3. Table of parameters computed
4. Also, generate a solution to investigate the effects of inlet conditions on the solution of the given
problem. For example, use 5 different values of each pressure, temperature or mass flow rate
(one by one) if given at the inlet. Show each effect in the form of graphs.
5. Discussion of the results to describe the graphical effect (step number 4) with physical
significance.
The due date for submission of report is Monday, December 19, 2022 before 05:00 pm in the instructor’s
office G-11 (FME Faculty Lobby) on MS Teams in pdf format only. Late submissions will be marked negative
1 mark (absolute) per day.

Note: The list of problem is randomly generated, and the difficulty level may differ from one person to
another. However, the evaluation will be based on the effort involved and the procedure followed in
solving the problem.

In class and exams (quizzes and assignment sessions) we were limited to the solution of the problems
stated in SI Units and water/steam as the working fluid, however, for this assignment, you must follow
the same units and working fluid mentioned in the problem statement of the book.

In case of any confusion, please contact the instructor for a discussion before Monday December 12,
2022. Late excuses will not be entertained.

Entirely, it is the responsibility of each student to submit the assignment in time. Excuses like internet
connectivity in the last hours will not be accepted.
 List of Problems

S. No Reg.# Name Problem No.

1 2020142 Hammad Khan 1
2 2020340 Rohaan Muzaffar 2
3 2020418 Saad Ullah Zia 3
4 2020484 Syed Rayyan Junaid 4
5 2020513 Waleed Ali Khan 5
6 2020902 Mahid Taufeeq Mir 6
7 2021001 Aadil Ejaz Yasir Khan 7
8 2021013 Abdul Mateen 8
9 2021019 Abdul Naveed 9
10 2021028 Abdul Wasay 10
11 2021041 Abdullah Wali 11
12 2021054 Afiya Rehman Sherwani 12
13 2021071 Allia Qamar 13
14 2021075 ALI AHMAD MIR 14
15 2021076 Ali Akbar 15
16 2021077 Ali Almas 16
17 2021091 Ammad UR Rehman Shahid 17
18 2021097 Anis Shehbaz Ali Khan 18
19 2021109 Arzan Shahzad 19
20 2021112 Ashar Tanveer 20
21 2021124 Azmat Ullah 21
22 2021133 Danial Kamran 22
23 2021172 Fozan Naeem 23
24 2021190 Hammad Faraz Shamsi 24
25 2021209 Haroon Saeed Hassan 25
26 2021215 Hasham Ahmed Khawaja 26
27 2021222 Hassan Raza Shahani 27
28 2021235 Huzaifa Muneeb 28
29 2021245 Irtaza Ahmed Khan 29
30 2021251 Jalal Ajmal Khan 30
31 2021257 Khadija Asim 31
32 2021269 Mahad Ali 32
33 2021271 Maham Batool Zaidi 33
34 2021278 MAIZA MATLOOB 1
35 2021294 Mian Abdur Rehman Naeem 2
36 2021298 Mian Omair Gul 3
37 2021320 Muhammad Abdullah Asghar 4
38 2021324 Muhammad Abdullah Tahir 5
39 2021334 Muhammad Ahmed 6
40 2021335 MUHAMMAD AHMED NAVEED 7
41 2021337 Muhammad Aizaz 8
42 2021340 MUHAMMAD ALI 9
43 2021349 Muhammad Anas 10
44 2021359 Muhammad Ashraf Ahmed 11
45 2021360 Muhammad Awais 12
46 2021361 Muhammad Awais 13
47 2021366 Muhammad Bin Zaid 14
48 2021376 Muhammad Hammad Nazir 15
49 2021377 Muhammad Hammad Rasheed 16
50 2021383 Muhammad Haris 17
51 2021384 Muhammad Haris Irfan 18
52 2021403 Muhammad Ibrahim 19
53 2021408 Muhammad Kamil Ayub 20
54 2021420 Muhammad Murtaza saeed 21
55 2021422 Muhammad Mussab Bin Kamran 22
56 2021436 Muhammad Rashid 23
57 2021441 Muhammad saad 24
58 2021444 Muhammad Saad Farooq 25
59 2021454 Muhammad Seddique Abbasi 26
60 2021461 Muhammad Suleman Khan 27
61 2021472 Muhammad Umaid Afzal 28
62 2021479 Muhammad Umer Farooq 29
63 2021482 Muhammad Usman Ali 30
64 2021504 Mustafa Khan 31
65 2021512 Nisha Sher 32
66 2021537 Riyan 33
67 2021555 SAAD UR REHMAN 1
68 2021558 Saim Hussain 2
69 2021574 Sarmad Sakhi 3
70 2021559 SAIM UR REHMAN 4
71 2021583 SHAH JUMAAN 5
72 2021585 Shaheer Ahmed 6
73 2021586 SHAHEER ALI ABEER 7
74 2021601 Sheikh Hamza Imran 8
75 2021602 Sher jan 9
76 2021607 Sibghatullah 10
77 2021615 Syed Ehtisham Shah 11
78 2021618 Syed Hamza Ali 12
79 2021628 Syed Muhammad Abdullah 13
80 2021630 Syed Muhammad Ahmed 14
81 2021636 Syed Muhammad Danyal 15
82 2021642 Syed Muhammad Zargham Zaidi 16
83 2021647 Syed Raza Ali 17
84 2021661 TAHA AHMED 18
85 2021662 Taha Ali Abbasi 19
86 2021669 Talha Amin 20
87 2021690 Usman Raza 21
88 2021692 USMAN SARFRAZ 22
89 2021695 Uzair Arshad 23
90 2021709 Yasir Zaman 24
91 2021715 Zafir Salahuddin 25
92 2021731 ZULKIFAL 26
93 2021737 TALHA AHMED 27
94 2021739 MUHAMMAD ARBAB ASLAM 28
95 2021745 UZAIR AHMAD 29
96 2021747 AZKA NADEEM 30
 List of Problems
1. A small turbine, shown in Fig. below, is operated at part load by throttling a 0.25-kg/s steam supply at 1.4 MPa
and 250◦C down to 1.1 MPa before it enters the turbine, and the exhaust is at 10 kPa. If the turbine produces 110
kW, find the exhaust temperature (and quality if saturated).

2. A factory generates compressed air from 100 kPa, 17 ◦C by compression to 1000 kPa, 600 K, after which it
cools in a constant pressure cooler to 300K, (see Fig. below). Find the specific compressor
work and the specific heat transfer in the cooler.

3. Saturated liquid nitrogen at 600 kPa enters a boiler at a rate of 0.008 kg/s and exits as saturated vapor (see
Fig. below). It then flows into a superheater also at 600 kPa, where it exits at 600 kPa, 280 K. Find the rate
of heat transfer in the boiler and the superheater.

4. The following data are for a simple steam power plant as shown in Fig. P4. State 6 has x6 = 0.92 and velocity
of 200 m/s. The rate of steam flow is 25 kg/s, with 300 kW of power input to the pump. Piping diameters are
200 mm from the steam generator to the turbine and 75 mm from the condenser to the
economizer and steam generator. Determine the velocity at state 5 and the power output of the turbine.

5. For the steam power plant shown in Fig. P4, assume that the cooling water comes from a lake at
15◦C and is returned at 25◦C. Determine the rate of heat transfer in the condenser and the mass flow
rate of cooling water from the lake.

6. For the steam power plant shown in Fig. P4, determine the rate of heat transfer in the economizer, which is
a low-temperature heat exchanger. Also find the rate of heat transfer needed in the steam generator.
 Fig. P4

7. An R-410a heat pump cycle shown in Fig. below has an R-410a flow rate of 0.05 kg/s with 5 kW into
the compressor. Calculate the heat transfer from the compressor, the heat transfer from the R-410a in the
condenser, and the heat transfer to the R-410a in the evaporator. The following data are given:
 Fig. P7
8. A modern jet engine has a temperature after combustion of about 1500 K at 3200 kPa as it enters the
turbine section (see state 3, Fig. below). The compressor inlet is at 80 kPa, 260 K (state 1) and the
outlet (state 2) is at 3300 kPa, 780 K; the turbine outlet (state 4) into the nozzle is at 400 kPa, 900 K and the
nozzle exit (state 5) is at 80 kPa, 640 K. Neglect any heat transfer and neglect kinetic energy except out of
the nozzle. Find the compressor and turbine specific work terms and the nozzle exit velocity.

9. A proposal is made to use a geothermal supply of hot water to operate a steam turbine, as shown
in Fig. below. The high-pressure water at 1.5 MPa, 180◦C is throttled into a flash evaporator chamber, which
forms liquid and vapor at a lower pressure of 400 kPa. The liquid is discarded, while the saturated vapor
feeds the turbine and exits at 10 kPa with a 90% quality. If the turbine should produce 1 MW, find the required
mass flow rate of hot geothermal water in kilograms per hour.
10. Steam enters the first-stage turbine shown in Fig. below at 40 bar and 500 OC with a volumetric flow rate of
90 m3/min. Steam exits the turbine at 20 bar and 4008C. The steam is then reheated at constant pressure to
500oC before entering the second-stage turbine. Steam leaves the second stage as saturated vapor at 0.6 bar.
For operation at steady state, and ignoring stray heat transfer and kinetic and potential energy effects,
determine the (a) mass flow rate of the steam, in kg/h. (b) total power produced by the two stages of the
turbine, in kW. (c) rate of heat transfer to the steam flowing through the reheater, in kW.

11. Figure below shows a turbine operating at a steady state that provides power to an air compressor and an
electric generator. Air enters the turbine with a mass flow rate of 5.4 kg/s at 527 oC and exits the turbine at
107oC, 1 bar. The turbine provides power at a rate of 900 kW to the compressor and at a rate of 1400 kW to
the generator. Air can be modeled as an ideal gas, and kinetic and potential energy changes are negligible.
Determine (a) the volumetric flow rate of the air at the turbine exit, in m3/s, and (b) the rate of heat transfer
between the turbine and its surroundings, in kW.
12. Figure below provides steady-state data for a throttling valve in series with a heat exchanger. Saturated liquid
Refrigerant 134a enters the valve at T1 = 36oC with a mass flow rate of 0.26 kg/s and is throttled to T2=-8oC.
The refrigerant then enters the heat exchanger, exiting as saturated vapor with no significant decrease in
pressure. In a separate stream, liquid water enters the heat exchanger at T4 =20OC and exits as a liquid at T5
=10oC. Stray heat transfer and kinetic and potential energy effects can be ignored. Determine (a) the pressure
at state 2, in kPa, and (b) the mass flow rate of the liquid water stream, in kg/s.

13. As shown in Fig. below, Refrigerant 22 enters the compressor of an air conditioning unit operating at steady
state at 40OF, 80 lbf/in2 and is compressed to 140oF, 200 lbf/in2. The refrigerant exiting the compressor enters
a condenser where energy transfer to air as a separate stream occurs and the refrigerant exits as a liquid at
200 lbf/in.2, 90oF. Air enters the condenser at 80oF, 14.7 lbf/in2 with a volumetric flow rate of 750 ft3/min
and exits at 110oF. Neglecting stray heat transfer and kinetic and potential energy effects, and assuming ideal
gas behavior for the air, determine (a) the mass flow rate of refrigerant, in lb/min, and (b) the compressor
power, in horsepower.
14. Fig. below shows part of a refrigeration system consisting of a heat exchanger, an evaporator, a throttling
valve, and associated piping. Data for steady-state operation with Refrigerant 134a are given in the figure.
There is no significant heat transfer to or from the heat exchanger, valve, and piping. Kinetic and potential
energy effects are negligible. Determine the rate of heat transfer between the evaporator and its surroundings,
in Btu/h.

15. Refrigerant 134a enters the flash chamber operating at steady state shown in Fig. below at 10 bar, 36oC, with
a mass flow rate of 482 kg/h. Saturated liquid and saturated vapor exit as separate streams, each at pressure
p. Heat transfer to the surroundings and kinetic and potential energy effects can be ignored. (a) Determine
the mass flow rates of the exiting streams, each in kg/h, if p= 4 bar. (b) Plot the mass flow rates of the exiting
streams, each in kg/h, versus p ranging from 1 to 9 bar.
16. Carbon dioxide (CO2) modeled as an ideal gas flows through the compressor and heat exchanger shown in
Fig. below. The power input to the compressor is 100 kW. A separate liquid cooling water stream flows
through the heat exchanger. All data are for operation at steady state. Stray heat transfer with the surroundings
can be neglected, as can all kinetic and potential energy changes. Determine (a) the mass flow rate of the
CO2, in kg/s, and (b) the mass flow rate of the cooling water, in kg/s.

17. As shown in Fig. below, hot industrial waste water at 15 bar, 180 oC with a mass flow rate of 5 kg/s enters a
flash chamber via a valve. Saturated vapor and saturated liquid streams, each at 4 bar, exit the flash chamber.
The saturated vapor enters the turbine and expands to 0.08 bar, x= 90%. Stray heat transfer and kinetic and
potential energy effects are negligible. For operation at steady state, determine the power, in hp, developed
by the turbine.
18. Steady-state operating data for a simple steam power plant are provided in Fig. below. Stray heat transfer
and kinetic and potential energy effects can be ignored. Determine the (a) thermal efficiency and (b) the mass
flow rate of the cooling water, in kg per kg of steam flowing.

19. A simple gas turbine power cycle operating at steady state with air as the working substance is shown in Fig.
below. The cycle components include an air compressor mounted on the same shaft as the turbine. The air is
heated in the high-pressure heat exchanger before entering the turbine. The air exiting the turbine is cooled
in the low-pressure heat exchanger before returning to the compressor. Kinetic and potential effects are
negligible. The compressor and turbine are adiabatic. Using the ideal gas model for air, determine the (a)
power required for the compressor, in hp, (b) power output of the turbine, in hp, and (c) thermal efficiency
of the cycle.
20. A residential air conditioning system operates at steady state, as shown in Fig. below. Refrigerant 22
circulates through the components of the system. Property data at key locations are given on the figure. If the
evaporator removes energy by heat transfer from the room air at a rate of 600 Btu/min, determine (a) the rate
of heat transfer between the compressor and the surroundings, in Btu/min, and (b) the coefficient of
performance.

21. Separate streams of steam and air flow through the turbine and heat exchanger arrangement shown in Fig.
below. Steady state operating data are provided on the figure. Heat transfer with the surroundings can be
neglected, as can all kinetic and potential energy effects. Determine (a) T3, in K, and (b) the power output of
the second turbine, in kW.

22. A simple steam power plant, shown schematically in Fig. below, operates on 8 kg/s of steam. Losses in
the connecting pipes and through the various components are to be neglected. Calculate ( a ) the power output
of the turbine, (b) the power needed to operate the pump, (c) the velocity in the pump exit pipe,
(d) the heat transfer rate necessary in the boiler, ( e ) the heat transfer rate realized in the condenser,
( f ) the mass flux of cooling water required, and ( g ) the thermal efficiency of the cycle.
23. A feed water heater is used to preheat water before it enters a boiler, as shown schematically in Fig.
below. A mass flux of 30 kg/s flows through the system and, 7 kg/s is withdrawn from the turbine for the
feed water heater. Neglecting losses through the various pipes and components determine (a) the feed
water heater outlet temperature, ( b ) the boiler heat transfer rate, (c) the turbine power output, ( d )the
total pump power required, ( e ) the energy rejected by the condenser, ( f ) the cooling water mass flux,
and ( g ) the thermal efficiency of the cycle.

24. A turbine is required to provide a total output of 100 hp. The mass flux of fuel is negligible compared
with the mass flux of air. The exhaust gases can be assumed to behave as air. If the compressor and
turbine (Fig. 4-47) are assumed adiabatic, calculate the following, neglecting all losses: (a) the mass flux
of the air, (b) the horsepower required by the compressor, and (c) the power supplied by the fuel.
25. Steam enters a steady-flow turbine with a mass flow rate of 13 kg/s at 6008C, 8 MPa, and a negligible
velocity. The steam expands in the turbine to a saturated vapor at 300 kPa where 10 percent of the steam is
removed for some other use. The remainder of the steam continues to expand to the turbine exit where the
pressure is 10 kPa and quality is 85 percent. If the turbine is adiabatic, determine the rate of work
done by the steam during this process.

26. An adiabatic air compressor is to be powered by a direct-coupled adiabatic steam turbine that is also driving
generator. Steam enters the turbine at 12.5 MPa and 5008C at a rate of 25 kg/s and exits at 10 kPa and a
quality of 0.92. Air enters the compressor at 98 kPa and 295 K at a rate of 10 kg/s and exits at 1 MPa and
620 K. Determine the net power delivered to the generator by the turbine.

27. In a single-flash geothermal power plant, geothermal water enters the flash chamber (a throttling valve) at
230oC as a saturated liquid at a rate of 50 kg/s. The steam resulting from the flashing process enters a turbine
and leaves at 20 kPa with a moisture content of 5 percent. Determine the temperature of the steam after the
flashing process and the power output from the turbine if the pressure of the steam at the exit of the flash
chamber is (a) 1 MPa, (b) 500 kPa, (c) 100 kPa, (d) 50 kPa.
28. A quantity of water within a piston–cylinder assembly executes a Carnot power cycle. During isothermal
expansion, the water is heated from saturated liquid at 50 bar until it is a saturated vapor. The vapor then
expands adiabatically to a pressure of 5 bar while doing 364.31 kJ/kg of work. (a) Sketch the cycle on p–v
coordinates. (b) Evaluate the heat transfer per unit mass and work per unit mass for each process, in kJ/kg.
(c) Evaluate the thermal efficiency.

29. One and one-half pounds of water within a piston–cylinder assembly execute a Carnot power cycle. During
isothermal expansion, the water is heated at 500 oF from saturated liquid to saturated vapor. The vapor then
expands adiabatically to a temperature of 100 oF and a quality of 70.38%. (a) Sketch the cycle on p–y
coordinates. (b) Evaluate the heat transfer and work for each process, in Btu. (c) Evaluate the thermal
efficiency.

30. Two kilograms of air within a piston–cylinder assembly execute a Carnot power cycle with maximum and
minimum temperatures of 750 K and 300 K, respectively. The heat transfer to the air during the isothermal
expansion is 60 kJ. At the end of the isothermal expansion, the pressure is 600 kPa and the volume is 0.4 m3.
Assuming the ideal gas model for the air, determine (a) the thermal efficiency. (b) the pressure and volume
at the beginning of the isothermal expansion, in kPa and m3, respectively. (c) the work and heat transfer for
each of the four processes, in kJ. (d) Sketch the cycle on p–V coordinates.

31. The following data are for a simple steam power plant as shown in Fig. below;

State 6 has x6 = 0.92 and a velocity of 600 ft/s. The rate of steam flow is 200,000 lbm/h, with 400-hp input to
the pump. Piping diameters are 8 in. from the steam generator to the turbine and 3 in. from the condenser to
the steam generator. Determine the power output of the turbine and the heat transfer rate in the condenser.
32. For the same steam power plant shown in Fig. above, determine the rate of heat transfer in the economizer,
which is a low temperature heat exchanger, and the steam generator. Determine also the flow rate of cooling
water through the condenser if the cooling water increases from 55 to 75 F in the condenser.

33. An R-410a heat pump cycle shown in Fig. below has an R-410a flow rate of 0.1 lbm/s with 4 Btu/s into the
compressor. The following data are given:

Calculate the heat transfer from the compressor, the heat transfer from the R-410a in the condenser,
and the heat transfer to the R-410a in the evaporator.