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The document is a tutorial for Engineering Thermodynamics (CH161) containing various problems related to thermodynamic principles. It includes calculations for power requirements of an elevator, water pump power input, energy increase in a room with electric devices, steam properties, evaporation rates, and heat transfer in a cooling system. Each problem requires applying thermodynamic concepts to determine various parameters such as pressure, temperature, and energy changes.

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The document is a tutorial for Engineering Thermodynamics (CH161) containing various problems related to thermodynamic principles. It includes calculations for power requirements of an elevator, water pump power input, energy increase in a room with electric devices, steam properties, evaporation rates, and heat transfer in a cooling system. Each problem requires applying thermodynamic concepts to determine various parameters such as pressure, temperature, and energy changes.

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Engineering Thermodynamics (CH161)

Tutorial-3
1. Consider a vertical elevator whose cabin has a total mass of 800 kg when fully loaded
and 150 kg when empty. The weight of the elevator cabin is partially balanced by a 400-
kg counterweight that is connected to the top of the cabin by cables that pass through a
pulley located on top of the elevator well. Neglecting the weight of the cables and
assuming the guide rails and the pulleys to be frictionless, determine (a) the power
required while the fully loaded cabin is rising at a constant speed of 1.2 m/s and (b) the
power required while the empty cabin is descending at a constant speed of 1.2 m/s.
What would your answer be to (a) if no counterweight were used? What would your
answer be to (b) if a friction force of 800 N has developed between the cabin and the
guide rails?
2. A water pump increases the water pressure from 15 psia to 70 psia. Determine the power
input required, in hp, to pump 0.8 ft3/s of water. Does the water temperature at the inlet
have any significant effect on the required flow power?
3. Consider a room that is initially at the outdoor temperature of 20 °C. The room contains
a 40-W lightbulb, a 110-W TV set, a 300-W refrigerator, and a 1200-W iron. Assuming
no heat transfer through the walls, determine the rate of increase of the energy content of
the room when all of these electric devices are on.
4. Complete the table for H2O

5. A 1.8-m3 rigid tank contains steam at 220°C. One-third of the volume is in the liquid
phase and the rest is in the vapour form. Determine (a) the pressure of the steam, (b) the
quality of the saturated mixture, and (c) the density of the mixture.
6. 10-kg of R-134a fill a 1.348-m3 rigid container at an initial temperature of -40°C. The
container is then heated until the pressure is 200 kPa. Determine the final temperature
and the initial pressure.
7. Water is to be boiled at sea level in a 30-cm-diameter stainless steel pan placed on top of
a 3-kW electric burner. If 60 percent of the heat generated by the burner is transferred to
the water during boiling, determine the rate of evaporation of water. Repeat for a location
at an elevation of 1500 m where the atmospheric pressure is 84.5 kPa and thus the
boiling temperature of water is 95°C.
8. Water initially at 200 kPa and 300°C is contained in a piston-cylinder device fitted with
stops. The water is allowed to cool at constant pressure until it exists as a saturated vapor
and the piston rests on the stops. Then the water continues to cool until the pressure is
100 kPa. On the T-v diagrams sketch, with respect to the saturation lines, the process
curves passing through both the initial, intermediate, and final states of the water. Label
the T, P and v values for end states on the process curves. Find the overall change in
internal energy between the initial and final states per unit mass of water.

9. Saturated steam coming off the turbine of a steam power plant at 40°C condenses on the
outside of a 3-cmouter- diameter, 35-m-long tube at a rate of 130 kg/h. Determine the
rate of heat transfer from the steam to the cooling water flowing through the pipe.

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