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MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING


ChE 204- Thermodynamics I (02)
Dr. Bahar İpek Torun, Cansen Şirin Özbudak 29.11.2024
HOMEWORK 3
Due 06.12.2024, 10.40
Problem No: 1

Due to Lord Kelvin (William Thomson, 1824–1907) and Max Planck (1858–1947), it is not
possible to construct a device operating in a cycle that results in no effect other than the production
of work by transferring heat from a single body. A schematic diagram is given below.

Show from the axiom Sgen ≥0 that this process is impossible.

Problem No: 2 An insulated rigid tank is divided into two equal parts by a partition. One
part of the tank contains 0.5 mole of air at 500 kPa and 60 °C while the other part is evacuated.
The partition is removed, and the air expands to fill the entire tank (The process is not reversible).
Determine the entropy change of the air and Sgen during this process
Problem No: 3 A 3 kg aluminum block is taken out of a furnace at 175 °C and quenched
̂𝑝 = 1.67 kJ/kgK) at an initial temperature of 25 °C. The heat
in a 15 L oil bath (ρ=850 kg/m3, 𝐶
capacity of aluminum is given as
̂𝑝 = 0.537 + 1.916 ∗ 10−3 𝑇 − 2.938 ∗ 10−6 𝑇 2 + 1.838 ∗ 10−9 𝑇 3
𝐶

Where 𝐶̂𝑝 is in kJ/kgK and T is in K. Calculate the entropy change of the universe once the
thermal equilibrium is achieved.

Problem No: 4 Consider a reversible heat engine driven by two reservoirs, both of which
are at temperatures well above the ambient temperature. Suppose one can change either (but not
both) of the reservoir temperatures, 𝑇𝐻 (hot) and 𝑇𝐶 (cold), by an amount ∆𝑇.To increase the
thermal efficiency of a reversible cycle operating between reservoirs at 𝑇𝐻 and 𝑇𝐶, would it be
better to increase 𝑇𝐻 to 𝑇𝐻 + ∆𝑇, while keeping 𝑇𝐻 constant; or decrease 𝑇𝐶 to 𝑇𝐶 − ∆𝑇, while
keeping ∆𝑇 constant? Discuss.
Problem No: 5 A salesman for The Fabulous Co. offered our surgical team a novel type of
a surgical tool that he claims to cut painlessly. It works by blowing a very cold air onto the tissue
to be cut. Tissue freezes, feeling disappears, and there is no need for anesthetics. “Fabulous!!”
He says that the heart of the device is a Hilsch tube, a device that splits a stream of high-pressure
air (P1 = 1.5 bar, T1 = 27°C) into two equimolar streams, one how and the other cold, both at
pressures of 1 bar. The cold stream side is then blown at the scalpel blade.

The salesman claims that the cold air is at -123°C. I don’t believe that the air could get that cold
with such a simple device. Would you please determine whether his claims violate the laws of
thermodynamics?

Problem No: 6 In a steam power plant, 65 kg/s of liquid water at 6 MPa is heated to 500 °C in a
boiler with a heat input rate of 200 MW. The pressure at the exit of the turbine is 100 kPa. The
isentropic efficiency of the turbine is 0.8.
a) Calculate the power output of the turbine (Wt)
b) If the work produced by the pump is 9 kJ/kg, calculate the thermal efficiency of the power
plant

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