Assignment 2
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Maria SarwatAssignment 2
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Maria SarwatUniversité Française d'Égypte
Faculté d'Ingénierie
PEC :3
Thermodynamics II
Assignment #2
2022-2023
second law for a process
1. A rigid tank contains an ideal gas at 40°C that is being
stirred by a paddle wheel. The paddle wheel does 200
kJ of work on the ideal gas. It is observed that the
temperature of the ideal gas remains constant during
this process as a result of heat transfer between the
system and the surroundings at 30°C. Determine the
entropy change of the ideal gas.
2. A rigid tank is divided into two equal parts by a partition.
One part of the tank contains 1.5 kg of compressed liquid
water at 300 kPa and 60°C while the other part is
evacuated. The partition is now removed, and the water
expands to fill the entire tank. Determine the entropy
change of water during this process, if the final pressure in
the tank is 15 kPa.
3. Air is compressed steadily by a 5-kW compressor from 100
kPa and 17°C to 600 kPa and 167°C at a rate of 1.6 kg/min.
During this process, some heat transfer takes place between
the compressor and the surrounding medium at 17°C.
Determine the rate of entropy change of air during this
process.
4. Steam at 6000 kPa and 500°C enters a steady-flow turbine. The steam
expands in the turbine while doing work until the pressure is 1000 kPa.
When the pressure is 1000 kPa, 10 percent of the steam is removed from the
turbine for other uses. The remaining 90 percent of the steam continues to
expand through the turbine while doing work and leaves the turbine at 10
kPa. The entire expansion process by the steam through the turbine is
reversible and adiabatic. (a) Sketch the process on a T-s diagram with
respect to the saturation lines. Be sure to label the data states and the lines of
constant pressure. (b) If the turbine has an isentropic efficiency of 85
percent, what is the work done by the steam as it flows through the turbine
per unit mass of steam flowing into the turbine, in kJ/kg?
5. Air enters a nozzle steadily at 280 kPa and 77°C with a velocity of 50 m/s
and exits at 85 kPa and 320 m/s. The heat losses from the nozzle to the
surrounding medium at 20°C are estimated to be 3.2 kJ/kg. Determine (a)
the exit temperature and (b) the total entropy change for this process.
6. Liquid water enters a 25-kW pump at 100-kPa pressure at a rate
of 5 kg/s. Determine the highest pressure the liquid water can
have at the exit of the pump. Neglect the kinetic and potential
energy changes of water, and take the specific volume of water
to be 0.001 m3 /kg.
7. Air is compressed by an adiabatic compressor from 95 kPa and 27°C to 600
kPa and 277°C. Assuming variable specific heats and neglecting the changes
in kinetic and poten tial energies, determine (a) the isentropic efficiency of
the compressor and (b) the exit temperature of air if the process were
reversible.
8. Refrigerant-134a is throttled from 900 kPa and 35°C to 200 kPa. Heat is lost
from the refrigerant in the amount of 0.8 kJ/kg to the surroundings at 25°C.
Determine (a) the exit temperature of the refrigerant and (b) the entropy
generation during this process.
9. Argon gas enters an adiabatic turbine at 800°C and 1.5 MPa at a rate of 80
kg/min and exhausts at 200 kPa. If the power output of the turbine is 370
kW, determine the isentropic efficiency of the turbine.
