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INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE

Department of Mechanical Engineering

ME 271: THERMODYNAMICS Due: 9th April 2024


Assignment 2

Teaching Assistant: 1) Shrey Sahai Gupta ([email protected])


2) Shubham Kumar Vishwakarma ([email protected])
Ref: “Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics” - Moran and Shapiro
Problems on Combustion

1. Liquid propane is burned with dry air. A volumetric analysis of the products of
combustion yields the following percent composition on a dry basis:
Product CO2 CO O2 N2
Percent by· 8.6 0.6 7.2 83.6
Determine the percent of theoretical air used in this combustion process.
2. A sample of pine bark has the following ultimate analysis on a dry basis, percent by
mass:
Component H C S N O ash
Percent by mass 5.6 53.4 0.1 0.1 37.9 2.9
This bark will be use as a fuel by burning it with 100% theoretical air in a furnace.
Determine the air-fuel ratio on a mass basis.
3. The coal gasifier in an integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plant
produces a gas mixture with the following volumetric percent composition:
Product CH2 H2 CO CO2 N2 H2O H2S NH3
Percent by volume 0.3 29.6 41.0 10.0 0.8 17.0 1.1 0.2
This gas is cooled to 40 °C, 3 MPa, and the H2S and NH3 are removed in water scrubbers.
Assuming that the resulting mixture, which is sent to the combustors, is saturated with
water, determine the mixture composition and the theoretical air-fuel ratio in the
combustors.
4. In a test of rocket propellant performance, liquid hydrazine (N2H4) at 100 kPa, 25 °C,
and oxygen gas at 100 kPa, 25 °C, are fed to a combustion chamber in the ratio of 0.5
kg O2/kg N2H4. The heat transfer from the chamber to the surroundings is estimated to
be 100 kJ/kg N2H4. Determine the temperature of the products exiting the chamber.
Assume that only H2O, H2, and N2 are present. The enthalpy of formation of liquid
hydrazine is +50417 kJ/kmol.

5. In a new high-efficiency furnace, natural gas, assumed to be 90% methane and 10%
ethane (by volume) and 110% theoretical air each enter at 25 °C, 100 kPa, and the
products (assumed to be 100% gaseous) exit the furnace at 40 °C, 100 kPa. What is the
heat transfer for this process? Compare this to an older furnace where the products exit
at 250 °C, 100 kPa.

6. A study is to be made using liquid ammonia as the fuel in a gas-turbine engine. Consider
the compression and combustion processes of this engine.
a) Air enters the compressor at 100 kPa, 25 °C, and is compressed to 1600 kPa, where the
isentropic compressor efficiency is 87%. Determine the exit temperature and the work
input per kilomole.
b) Two kilomoles of liquid ammonia at 25°C and x times theoretical air from the
compressor enter the combustion chamber. What is x if the adiabatic flame temperature
is to be fixed at 1600 K?

7. A mixture of 80% ethane and 20% methane on a mole basis is throttled from 10 MPa,
65 °C, to 100 kPa and is fed to a combustion chamber where it undergoes complete
combustion with air, which enters at 100 kPa, 600 K. The amount of air is such that the
products of combustion exit at 100 kPa, 1200 K. Assuming that the combustion process
is adiabatic and that all components behave as ideal gases except the fuel mixture,
which behaves according to the generalized tables or charts, with pseudocritical
constants, determine
a) The percentage of theoretical air used in the process.
b) The dew-point temperature of the products.
8. A closed, insulated container is charged with a stoichiometric ratio of oxygen and
hydrogen at 25 °C and 150 kPa. After combustion, liquid water at 25°C is sprayed in
such that the final temperature is 1200 K. What is the final pressure?

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