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The document outlines an assignment for Electrical Engineering students focusing on Engineering Thermodynamics, consisting of ten problems related to thermodynamic principles and calculations. Topics include energy transfer, pressure measurements, piston-cylinder devices, and heat pump systems. Students are required to analyze various thermodynamic processes and determine relevant parameters such as work, heat transfer, and pressure differences.

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Assignment # 1

The document outlines an assignment for Electrical Engineering students focusing on Engineering Thermodynamics, consisting of ten problems related to thermodynamic principles and calculations. Topics include energy transfer, pressure measurements, piston-cylinder devices, and heat pump systems. Students are required to analyze various thermodynamic processes and determine relevant parameters such as work, heat transfer, and pressure differences.

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Assignment # 1

Engineering Thermodynamics
For Electrical Engineering Students
1. An office worker claims that a cup of cold coffee on his table warmed up to 80 0C by
Picking up energy from the surrounding air, which is at 25 0C. Is there any truth to his
claim? Does this process violate any thermodynamic laws?
2. The basic barometer can be used to measure the height of a building. If the barometric
readings at the top and at the bottom of a building are 730 and 755 mmHg,
respectively, determine the height of the building. Assume an average air density of
1.18 kg/m3.

3. Freshwater and seawater flowing in parallel horizontal pipelines are connected to each
other by a double U-tube manometer, as shown in Figure below. Determine the
pressure difference between the two pipelines. Take the density of seawater at that
location to be =1035 kg/m3. Can the air column be ignored in the analysis?

4. A piston–cylinder device contains 2 kg of air initially at 5 MPa and 450°C. The air is
first expanded isothermally to 500 kPa, then compressed polytropically with a
Polytropic exponent of 1.4 to the initial pressure, and finally compressed at the constant

Submission Date: _______________________________


pressure to the initial state. Determine the boundary work for each process and the
network of the cycle.
5. Plot the process given below on P-V and P-T diagram.
a) A liquid-vapor mixture with quality of 70% is heated at constant volume until its
quality is 100%.
b) Superheated vapor is cooled at constant pressure until liquid just begins to form.
c) A liquid-vapor mixture with the quality of 50% is heated at constant temperature of
150 until its volume is five times the initial volume.
6. Steam at 0.3 Mpa, 250 oC and flowing at the rate of 1 kg/s passes in to a pipe carrying
wet steam at 0.8 Mpa, 0.95 dry. After adiabatic mixing the flow rate is 2.3kg/s and 0.8
MPa. Determine the condition of steam after mixing. The mixture is now expanded in a
frictionless nozzle isentropically to a pressure of 0.1 Mpa. Determine the velocity of
the steam leaving the nozzle. Neglect the velocity of steam in the pipe line.
7. A two-phase liquid–vapor mixture of H2O with an initial quality of 25% is contained in
a piston–cylinder assembly as shown in figure below. The mass of the piston is 40 kg,
and its diameter is 10 cm. The atmospheric pressure of the surroundings is 1 bar. The
initial and final positions of the piston are shown on the diagram. As the water is
heated, the pressure inside the cylinder remains constant until the piston hits the stops.
Heat transfer to the water continues until its pressure is 3 bar. Friction between the
piston and the cylinder wall is negligible. Determine the total amount of heat transfer,
Let g = 9.81 m/s2.

Submission Date: _______________________________


8. A closed system consists of an ideal gas with mass m and constant specific heat ratio k.
If kinetic and potential energy changes are negligible,
(a) Show that for any adiabatic process the work is

(b) Show that an adiabatic Polytropic process in which work is done only at a moving
boundary is described by PVk =constant.
9. Air as an ideal gas flows through the turbine and heat exchanger arrangement shown in
Figure below. Data for the two flow streams are shown on the figure. Heat transfer to
the surroundings can be neglected, as can all kinetic and potential energy effects.
Determine T3, in K, and the power output of the second turbine, in kW, at steady state.

Submission Date: _______________________________


10. A residential heat pump system operating at steady state is shown schematically in Fig.
P4.58. Refrigerant 134a circulates through the components of the system, and property
data at the numbered locations are given on the figure. The mass flow rate of the
refrigerant is 4.6 kg/min. Kinetic and potential energy effects are negligible. Determine
a. Rate of heat transfer between the compressor and the surroundings, in kJ/min.
b. The coefficient of performance.

Submission Date: _______________________________

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