Material for Homework #6

Reading Assignment (This covers this assignment as well as the next one):
5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.7, 6.9, 6.10, 2.6, 5.6, 5.7, 5.9

Key Ideas:
(1)

The reversible process

The internally reversible process and its relation to the
quasistatic process

(2)

Second law for closed systems

The definition of entropy for a reversible process
Effect of boundary temperature
Entropy creation in irreversible processes
Rate form, differential form, and integral form

(3)

The generalized entropy balance

Simplification for closed systems
Simplification for steady flow open systems

(4)

Application to heat engines

Thermal efficiency of heat engines
Thermal efficiency of reversible heat engines

(5)

Applications to heat pumps and refrigerators

Difference between a refrigerator and a heat pump
Coefficients of performance for refrigerators and heat pumps
COP's for reversible refrigerators and heat pumps

(6)

Applications to other closed and open systems

The adiabatic - reversible process
Isentropic efficiency - definitions of and conventions for

Thermodynamics Homework #6

1.

5.20 in text

2.

5.43 in text

3.

5.26 in text

4.

In the month of January, a certain dwelling requires heat in the

amount of 2.4 x 106 kJ per day to maintain its temperature at 20 C.
As a means of providing the required heating, a heat pump cycle is
under consideration that would operate between the dwelling and a
nearby pond at 10 C. The manufacturer claims that the net work
input required to operate the heat pump is 1.6 x 105 kJ/day.
Evaluate this claim.

5.

"Fuel energy" is available at 2000 F at a local power plant. What is the

maximum work that can be produced for each BTU of fuel energy if it is
winter and the surroundings are at 40 F ? If this work is used to maintain a
residence at 80 F, how much energy (ideally) can be delivered to the
residence for each BTU of fuel energy?

6.

A heat engine draws equal amounts of energy from 3 different sources: one
at 1000 K, one at 1500 K, and one at 2000 K. The engine rejects heat at a
rate of 100 kW to the environment at 300 K. What is the maximum power
that the engine can produce?

Additional practice problems for which the answers are given:

5.21, 5.23, 5.34, 5.44, 5.53, 5.55, 5.60

Homework Set #6
(1)

(A) = .75, (B) 1610 kJ, 610 kJ

(2)

impossible, irreversible, reversible, irreversible

(3)

(A) T = 700 oR, 1 = 0.3, 2 = 0.43 (B) = .6 W net = 2W cycle

(4)

feasible

(5)

0.797 BTU, 10.76 BTU

(6)

361.5 kW

(C) 790 oF

(D) 327 oC