Thermodynamics I

Spring 1432/1433H (2011/2012H)

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MEP 261 Class ZA

Dr. Walid A. Aissa

Associate Professor, Mech. Engg. Dept.
Faculty of Engineering at Rabigh, KAU, KSA

Chapter #3
Sebtember XX, 2011
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Text book:
Thermodynamics An Engineering Approach
Yunus A. Cengel & Michael A. Boles
7th Edition, McGraw-Hill Companies,
ISBN-978-0-07-352932-5, 2008
 Chapter 3
PROPERTIES OF PURE
SUBSTANCES
 Objectives of CH3: To
• Introduce the concept of a pure substance.
• Discuss the physics of phase-change processes.
• Illustrate the P-v, T-v, and P-T property
diagrams and P-v-T surfaces of pure
substances.
• Demonstrate the procedures for determining
thermodynamic properties of pure substances
from tables of property data.
• Describe the hypothetical substance “ideal gas”
and the ideal-gas equation of state.
* Apply the ideal-gas equation of state in the
solution of typical problems..
 Chapter 3
PROPERTIES OF PURE SUBSTANCES
3–1 ■ PURE SUBSTANCE
A substance that has a fixed chemical composition
throughout is called a pure substance. Water,
nitrogen, helium, and carbon dioxide, for
example, are all pure substances

Nitrogen and gaseous air are pure

substances.
A mixture of two or more phases of a pure
substance is still a pure substance as long as
the chemical composition of all phases is the
same.

A mixture of liquid and gaseous water

is a pure substance
3–2 ■ PHASES OF A PURE SUBSTANCE

Phases

Gas Liquid Solid

3–3 ■ PHASE-CHANGE PROCESSES OF
PURE SUBSTANCES
- Compressed Liquid and Saturated Liquid

Consider a piston–cylinder device

containing liquid water at 20°C and
1 atm pressure (state 1). Under
these conditions, water exists in the
liquid phase, and it is called a
compressed liquid, or a
subcooled liquid.
At 1 atm and 20°C, water
exists in the liquid phase
(compressed liquid).
T-v diagram for the heating process of water
at constant pressure.
As more heat is transferred, the
temperature keeps rising until it
reaches 100°C (state 2). At this
point water is still a liquid, but any
heat addition will cause some of
the liquid to vaporize. That is, a
phase-change process from liquid
to vapor is about to take place. A
liquid that is about to vaporize is
called a saturated liquid.
At 1 atm pressure and
100°C, water exists as a
liquid that is ready to
vaporize (saturated liquid).
 Saturated Vapor and Superheated Vapor
Once boiling starts, the
temperature stops rising until
the L is completely vaporized.
i.e., the temperature will
remain constant during the
entire phase-change process if
the pressure is held constant.
Midway about the vaporization As more heat is
line (state 3), the cylinder transferred, part of the
contains equal amounts of L saturated liquid
and V vaporizes (saturated
Water vapor called steam liquid–vapor mixture).
As we continue transferring heat, the
vaporization process continues until the last
drop of liquid is vaporized (state4). At this
point, the entire cylinder is filled with vapor

At 1 atm pressure,
the temperature
remains constant at
100°C until the
last drop of liquid is
vaporized
(saturated vapor).
Further transfer of heat results in
an increase in both the temperature and
the specific volume . At state 5, the
temperature of the vapor is, let us say,
300°C. Water at state 5 is a
superheated vapor.

As more heat is transferred,

the temperature of the vapor
starts to rise
(superheated vapor).
If the entire process described here is reversed
by cooling the water while maintaining the
pressure at the same value, the water will go
back to state 1, retracing the same path, and in
so doing, the amount of heat released will
exactly match the amount of heat added during
the heating process.
 Saturation Temperature and
Saturation Pressure
“The temperature at which water starts boiling
depends on the pressure; therefore, if the
pressure is fixed, so is the boiling temperature”.
# Water starts boiling at 100°C if the pressure
is held constant at 1 atm (101.325 kPa).
# Water starts boiling at 151.8°C if the
pressure is held constant at 500 kPa.
3–4 ■ PROPERTY DIAGRAMS FOR
PHASE-CHANGE PROCESSES
Variations of properties during phase-
change processes are best studied and
understood with the help of property
diagrams(T-v, P-v, and P-T diagrams for
pure substances
 1 The T-v
Diagram

100

Saturation line
As the pressure is increased, saturation line
continues to shrink, and it becomes a point
when the pressure reaches 22.06 MPa for
the case of water.
This point is called the critical point, and it is
defined as the point at which the saturated
liquid and saturated vapor states are
identical.
 The temperature, pressure, and specific
volume of a substance at the critical
point are called, respectively, the critical
temperature; Tcr, critical pressure
pcr, and critical specific volume vcr. The
critical-point properties of
water are pcr = 22.06 MPa, Tcr = 373.95°C,
and vcr = 0.003106 m3/kg.
The critical properties for various substances
are given in Table A–1 in the appendix
At pressures above
the critical pressure,
there is not a distinct
phase change
process. Instead, the
specific volume of the
substance continually
increases, and at all
times there is only one
phase present

At supercritical pressures (p ˃ pcr), there is

no distinct phase-change (boiling) process.
The saturated liquid states can be connected
by a line called the saturated liquid line, and
saturated vapor states in the same figure
can be connected by another line, called the
saturated vapor line.
These two lines meet at the critical point, forming
a dome as shown in the next Figure. All
the compressed liquid states are located in the
region to the left of the saturated liquid line, called
the compressed liquid region. All the
superheated vapor states are located to the right
of the saturated vapor line, called the
superheated vapor region.
T-v diagram of a pure substance.
 In these two regions, the substance exists
in a single phase, a liquid or a vapor. All the
states that involve both phases in equilibrium
are located under the dome, called the
saturated liquid–vapor mixture region, or the
wet region.
2 The p-v Diagram

p-v diagram of a pure substance.

Enthalpy—A Combination Property
Specific enthalpy, given the symbol h; is
defined as:
(3-1)

combination u +
Pv is frequently
encountered in the
analysis of control
volumes.
Hence, total enthalpy, H, is defined as:

(3-2)
3–5 ■ PROPERTY TABLES
1a Saturated Liquid and Saturated
Vapor States
Properties of saturated liquid and saturated
vapor for water are listed in Tables A–4 and A–5.
Both tables give the same information. The only
difference is that in Table A–4 properties are
listed under temperature and in Table A–5
under pressure. Therefore, it is more convenient
to use Table A–4 when temperature is given and
Table A–5 when pressure is given. The use of
Table A–4 is illustrated in next Figure.
The subscript f is used to denote properties of
a saturated liquid, and the subscript g to
denote the properties of saturated vapor.
Another subscript commonly used is fg,
which denotes the difference between the
saturated vapor and saturated liquid values
of the same property. e.g.
v f = specific volume of saturated liquid
v g = specific volume of saturated vapor
vfg = difference between vg and vf
= vg - vf
 From
Table A–4
EXAMPLE 3–1 Pressure of Saturated Liquid
in a Tank
A rigid tank contains 50 kg of saturated liquid
water at 90°C. Determine the pressure in the
tank and the volume of the tank.
Solution T = 90°C Sat. L
T,°C
From Table A–4 (As shown in Slide 30)
psat at 90°C = 70.183 kPa.
vsat Liquid at 90°C = vf at 90°C =
0.001036 m3/kg.
But, v = V/m . Hence, V = v * m =
0.001036 m3/kg * 50 kg = 0.0518 m3
EXAMPLE 3–3 Volume and Energy Change
during Evaporation
A mass of 200 g of saturated liquid water is
completely vaporized at a constant pressure of
100 kPa. Determine (a) the volume change and
(b) the amount of energy transferred to the
water.
Solution
From Table A–5
a) vf at 100 kPa = 0.001043 m3/kg.
vg at 100 kPa = 1.6941 m3/kg.
vfg = vg - vf = 1.6941 m3/kg - 0.001043 m3/kg
vfg = vg - vf = 1.6931 m3/kg

∆v = m * vfg = (200/1000) kg * 1.6931m3/kg=

0.3386 m3
(b) The amount of energy needed to vaporize a
unit mass of a substance at a given pressure is
the enthalpy of vaporization at that pressure
(100 kPa), which is
From Table A–5 hfg (at p=100 kPa)= 2257.5 kJ/kg

Thus, the amount of energy transferred is

E = m * hfg =(200/1000) kg* 2257.5 kJ/kg=451.5 kJ
1b Saturated Liquid–Vapor Mixture
During a vaporization process, a substance
exists as part liquid and part vapor i.e, a
mixture of saturated liquid and saturated vapor;
next Figure. To analyze this mixture properly,
we need to know the proportions of the liquid
and vapor phases in the mixture. This is done
by defining a new property called the quality x
as the ratio of the mass of vapor to the total
mass of the mixture:
 (3-3)

where,
Value of quality; x is between 0 and 1.
The quality of a system that consists of
saturated liquid is 0 (or 0 percent), and
the quality of a system consisting of
saturated vapor is 1 (or 100 percent).
By definition:

Hence,
v – vf v – vf

vfg
Hence, v
v = vf + x vfg = vf + x ( vg – vf ) m3/kg
Similarly,
u = uf + x ufg = uf + x ( ug – uf ) kJ/kg
h = hf + x hfg = hf + x ( hg – hf ) kJ/kg
All the saturated-mixture states are located
under the saturation curve, and to analyze
saturated mixtures, all we need are
saturated liquid and saturated vapor data
(Tables A–4 and A–5 in the case of water).
EXAMPLE 3–4 Pressure and Volume of a
Saturated Mixture
A rigid tank contains 10 kg of water at
90°C. If 8 kg of the water is in the liquid
form and the rest is in the vapor form,
determine (a) the pressure in the tank and
(b) the volume of the tank.
Solution
From Eq. (3-3)
x = mVapor / mtotal = (mtotal – mliquid)/ mtotal
i.e. x = (10 kg – 8 kg)/ 10 kg = 0.2
 It is clear that the tank contains
mixture of Liquid an vapor
From Table A-4
p = psat at 90°C = 70.183 kPa.
vf at 90°C = 0.001036 m3/kg.
vg at 90°C = 2.3593 m3/kg.
But
v = vf + x vfg = vf + x ( vg – vf ) m3/kg
Hence,
v = 0.001036 + 0.2 (2.3593 –0.001036 )
m3/kg = 0.473 m3/kg
V = m v = 10 kg 0.473 m3/kg = 4.73 m3
 EXAMPLE 3–5 Properties of Saturated
Liquid–Vapor Mixture
An 80-L vessel contains 4 kg of refrigerant-
134a at a pressure of 160 kPa.
Determine (a) the temperature, (b) the quality,
(c) the enthalpy of the refrigerant, and (d) the
volume occupied by the vapor phase.
Solution

V = 80 L = 80 / 1000 m3 = 0.08
m 3
v = V / m = 0.08 m3 / 4 kg = 0.02 m3/kg
 From Table A-12
vf (at psat = 160 kPa) = 0.0007437 m3/kg.
vg (at psat = 160 kPa) = 0.12348 m3/kg.

It is clear that vf ( = 0.0007437 m3/kg)

< v (= 0.02 m3/kg) < vg (= 0.12348 m3/kg).
Hence, 134a refrigerant is in the
Saturated Liquid–Vapor Mixture
(a) The temperature:
Hence, T = Tsat (at psat = 160 kPa) = -15.60°C.
(b) Quality:
x = (v - vf) / vfg = (0.02- 0.0007437)/
(0.12348 - 0.0007437) = 0.157
(c) The enthalpy of the refrigerant,
From Table A–12 : hf (At 160 kPa) =
31.21 kJ/kg and hf g (@ p=160 kPa) =
209.90 kJ/kg.
h = hf + (x * hfg ) = 31.21 kJ/kg + (0.157 *
209.90 kJ/kg) = 64.2 kJ/kg
Volume occupied by the vapor
(d)
phase,
x = mg / mt , Hence
mg = x * mt = 0.157 * 4 kg = 0.628 kg
Vg = mg * vg = 0.628 kg * 0.12348 m3/kg
= 0.0775 m3 (or 77.5 l )
2 Superheated Vapor (single-
phase region (vapor phase only))
Exists in the region to the right of the
saturated vapor line and at temperatures
above the critical point temperature.
T and p are no longer dependent
properties and they can conveniently be
used as the two independent properties in
the tables.
The format of the
superheated vapor
tables is illustrated in
the following figure.

See the previous

two figures

(A partial listing of Table A–6).

 Compared to saturated vapor, superheated
vapor is characterized by
-Lower pressures (p < psat at a given T)
-Higher temperatures (T > Tsat at a given p)
-Higher specific volumes (v > vg at a given
p or T)
-Higher internal energies (u > ug at a given
p or T)
-Higher enthalpies (h > hg at a given p or T)
EXAMPLE 3–7 Temperature of
Superheated Vapor
Determine the temperature of water at a state
of p = 0.5 MPa and h = 2890 kJ/kg.
Solution
From Table A-5
Tsat (@ p = 0.5 Mpa) = 151.83 °C
hf (@ p = 0.5 Mpa) = 640.09 kJ/kg
hg (@ p = 0.5 Mpa) = 2748.1 kJ/kg
It is clear that h (= 2890 kJ/kg) >
hg ( = 2748.1 kJ/kg )
Hence, water is superheated steam.
From Table A-6, at p = 0.5 Mpa

T (°C) h, kJ/kg
200 2855.8
T 2890
250 2961.0
250°C
T °C
200°C
= Hence, by interpolation

[(T-200)/(250-200)]=
[(2890-2855.8)/(2961.0-2855.8)]
T = 216.255 ° C
3 Compressed Liquid
Compressed liquid data are available in
Table A–7.
Variation of properties of compressed
liquid with pressure is very mild.
Increasing the pressure 100 times often
causes properties to change less than 1 %.
In the absence of compressed liquid data,
a general approximation is to treat
compressed liquid as saturated liquid
at the given temperature
 T Tsat = T

v ≈ vf ,
u ≈ uf , vf , uf , hf (Tsat )
h ≈ hf
In general Compressed liquid is
characterized by:
 T

Tsat = T

v ≈ vf ,
vf , uf , hf (Tsat )
u ≈ uf ,
h ≈ hf
EXAMPLE 3–8 Approximating Compressed
Liquid as Saturated Liquid
Determine the internal energy of compressed
liquid water at 80°C and 5 MPa, using
(a) data from the compressed liquid table and
(b) saturated liquid data. What is the error
involved in the second case?.
Solution
From Table A-5 Tsat ( @p = 5MPa) = 263.94°C
It is clear that T (= 80°C) < Tsat ( p = 5MPa) =
263.94°C
Hence, water is compressed liquid
(a) Exact solution using the data from the
compressed liquid table
From Table A-7 [for compressed liquid water]
at p = 5MPa & T = 80°C, u = 333.82 kJ/kg
(b) Approximate solution
From Table A-4 [for saturated vapor-
Temperature table] at Tsat = 80°C, uf =
334.97 kJ/kg , i.e. u ≈ uf = 334.97 kJ/kg
% error in u = [(uapprox – uexact)/uexact]* 100%
= [(334.97 – 333.82)/333.82]*100%= 0.3445%
Reference State and Reference Values
EXAMPLE 3–9
 Solution
(a) Saturated Liquid–Vapor Mixture
[p = 200 kPa & x = 0.6 ]
From Table A-5 [for saturated water-
Pressure table] at psat = 200 kPa,
T = 120.21 °C,
° uf = 504.5 kJ/kg &
ufg = 2024.6 kJ/kg

u = (uf + x * ufg ) = [504.5 kJ/kg +(0.6 *

2024.6 kJ/kg)] =1719.26 kJ/kg
 (b) T = 125 °C, u = 1600 kJ/kg
From Table A-4 [for saturated vapor-Temperature
table] at Tsat = 125°C, p = 232.23 kPa, uf =
524.83 kJ/kg , ufg = 2009.5 kJ/kg & ug = 2534.3
kJ/kg
It is clear that for T = Tsat (= 125°C),
uf ( = 524.83 kJ/kg) < u (= 1600 kJ/kg) <
ug (= 2534.3 kJ/kg )

Hence, water is saturated liquid–vapor

mixture
p = p (Tsat = 125°C)= 232.23 kPa
x = (u-uf ) /ufg = (1600 - 524.83 )/ 2009.5

i.e. x = (u-uf ) /ufg = (1600 - 524.83 )/ 2009.5

i.e. x = 0.535
 (c) p= 1000 kPa, u = 2950 kJ/kg
From Table A-5
Tsat (at p = 1000 kPa) = 179.88 °C
uf (at p = 1000 kPa) = 761.39 kJ/kg
ug (at p = 1000 kPa) = 2582.8 kJ/kg
It is clear that u (= 2950 kJ/kg)
> ug ( = 2582.8 kJ/kg )
Hence, water is superheated steam.
From Table A-6, at p = 1000 kPa
T (°C) u, kJ/kg
350 2875.7 Hence, by
T 2950 interpolation
400 2957.9

[(T-350)/(400-350)]=
[(2950-2875.7)/(2957.9-2875.7)]
T = 395.2° C
400°C
T °C
350°C

p = 1000 kPa
We would leave the quality column
blank in this case since quality has no
meaning for a superheated vapor
 (d) T = 75 °C, p = 500 kPa
p = 500 kPa

Tsat = 151.83 °C

T = 75 °C
 From Table A-5
Tsat (at p = 500 kPa) = 151.83 °C
It is clear that T (= 75 °C) < Tsat = 151.83 °C
Hence, water is compressed liquid
From Table A-7 [for compressed liquid water]
at p = 500kPa & T = 75°C {No data in Table
A-7 corresponding to p = 500 kPa}
Hence, u ≈ uf (Tsat = T = 75 °C) = 313.99
kJ/kg
 (e) x = 0, p = 850 kPa
Hence, water is saturated liquid
From Table A-5 [for saturated water-
Pressure table] at psat = 850 kPa,
T =Tsat = 172.94 °C, uf = 731.0 kJ/kg
 T, °C P, u, x Phase
kPa kJ/kg description
(a) 120.21 200 1719.26 0.6 Saturated L–V
Mixture
(b) 125 232.2 1600 0.535 Saturated L–V
Mixture
(c) 395.2 1000 2950 - Superheated
steam
(d) 75 500 313.99 - compressed L
(e) 172.94 850 731.0 0.0 Saturated L
3-6 THE IDEAL-GAS Equation OF
STATE
Any equation that relates p, T, and v of a
substance is called an equation of state
p v = R T or p /ρ = R T (3-10)
or pV=mRT
R = Ru /M Ru = 8.31447 kJ/kmol.K
Universal gas constant
Gas constants for different gases; Table A-1
Substance Formula Molar mass, R (kJ/kg K)
M (kg/kmol)
Air - 28.97 0.287
Helium He 4.003 2.0769
Argon Ar 39.948 0.2081
Nitrogen N2 28.013 0.2968
EXAMPLE 3–10 Mass of Air in a Room
Determine the mass of the air in a room whose
dimensions are 4 m× 5 m× 6 m at 100 kPa and
25°C.
Solution
pV=mRT
p = 100 kPa
T = 25°C = 25 + 273 = 298K
V = 4 m× 5 m× 6 m = 120 m3
(100 ×10 3 Pa) × 120 m3 = m × [0.287×
×10 3
(J/kg K)] × 298K
Hence, m = 140.3 kg
 Homework
3–26, 3–27, 3–30, 3–31,3-32, 3-34, 3-35, 3-36, 3-
37,3-77,3-80.