In The Name of God

University of Isfahan
Chemical Engineering Department
Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics II
Homework # 2
Date: 94-7-27

Due: 94-8-13

1. Ethylene at 30 bar and 100 C passes through a heater-expander and emerges at 20

bar and 150 C. There is no flow of work into or out of the heater-expander, but
heat is supplied. Assuming that ethylene obeys the Peng-Robinson equation of
state, compute the flow of heat into the heater-expander per mole of ethylene.
30 bar

Heat-Expander

100 C

20 bar
150 C

Q
2. From experimental data it is known that at moderate pressures the volumetric
equation of state may be written as PV RT BP , where the second Virial
coefficient B is a function of temperature only. Data for methane are given by
Dymond and Smith (1969) as:

T (K)

120

140

160

180

200

250 300 350 400

500 600

B (cm3/mole) -284 -217 -169 -133 -107 -67 -42 -27 -15.5 -0.5 8.5

(a) Identify the Boyle temperature and the inversion temperature for gaseous
methane.
Boyle temperature is the temperature at which B 0 and
T
Inversion temperature the temperature at which 0
P H

(b) Show, from the data in the table, that at temperature above the inversion
temperature the gas temperature increases in a Joule-Thomson expansion,
whereas it decreases if the initial temperature in below the inversion
temperature.

3. Show that:
C
(a) P T
P T

2V

2
T P

(b) C P CV T

T V T P
4. Determine expressions for GR, HR, and SR implied by Dieterici equation:

RT
a
exp

V b
VRT
Here, parameters a and b are functions of composition only.

5. A tank is divided into two equal chambers by an internal diaphragm. One

chamber contains methane at pressure of 500 bar and a temperature of 20 C
and the other chamber is evacuated. Suddenly, the diaphragm bursts. Compute
the final temperature and pressure of the gas in the tank after sufficient time has
passed for equilibrium to be attained. Assume that there is no heat transfer
between the tank and the gas, and the methane:
(a) Is an Ideal gas
(b) Obeys the VdW equation of state
6. Ammonia is to be isothermally compressed in a specially designed flow turbine
from 1 bar and 100 C to 50 bar. If the compression is done reversibly,
compute the heat and work flows needed per mole of ammonia if:
(a) Ammonia obeys the principle of corresponding states
(b) Ammonia obeys the PR equation of state
7. A tank containing carbon dioxide at 400 K and 50 bar is vented until the
temperature in the tank falls to 300 K. assuming there is no heat transfer
between the gas and the tank, find the pressure in the tank at the end of the
venting process and the fraction of the initial mass of gas remaining in the tank
if the carbon dioxide satisfies the Clausius equation of state:
P V b RT
C P 35.56

J
mole K

b 0.0441

m3
kmole