University of Sri Jayewardenepura

Faculty of Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering

Tutorial 2
Course: ME1202 Introduction to Thermodynamics
Academic Year: 2017
Q1 (a) Sketch the phase diagrams for a substance on T –v and P – v axes.

(b) Explain the terms of critical point temperature and triple point temperature for a
substance.
(c) Define the dryness fraction for a mixture of wet vapour and dry vapour.

Q2 A cylinder of 8cm diameter is fitted with a piston loaded by a coil spring of stiffness
140kN/m of compression. The cylinder contains 0.0005m3 of air at 15oC and 3bar. Find the
amount of heat which must be supplied for the piston to move a distance of 2cm.

Q3 A closed system receives 168.7kJ of heat at constant volume. It then rejects 177kJ of heat
while it 40kJ of work is done on it at constant pressure. An adiabatic process restores the
system to its initial state.

(i) Sketch the processes on P – V axes

(ii) Determine internal energy of the system after constant volume process and
adiabatic processes taking initial internal energy as zero
(iii) Work done during the adiabatic process

Q4 1800kJ of heat is transferred to 1m3 of air at 14bar and 200oC. Find the following.
(a) Final temperature and pressure if the volume remains constant
(b) Final temperature and volume if the pressure remains constant.

When the air is then expanded isothermally to a pressure of 7bar, what is the final volume
in each case?

Q5 0.75kg of air has a pressure of 3bar and a temperature of 125oC. After it has received
900kJ of heat at constant volume, find the final temperature and pressure.
If the air then expands adiabatically doing 915kJ of work, by how much is its internal
energy changed during the expansion.

Q6 One kg of gas expands adiabatically, falling its temperature from 240oC to 115oC while its
volume is doubled. The gas does 90kJ of work in the process. Find the value of cv and cp,
and the molar mass of the gas.

Q7 A mass of 0.12kg of steam initially saturated at 10bar expands reversibly in a cylinder until
the pressure is 1bar. The volume is then found to be 0.17m3. Assuming that the process is
polytropic, find the index of expansion and the heat transferred during the process.

Q8 A piston cylinder device contains 0.1m3 of a gas, initially at 500kPa. A spring exerts a force
on the piston, which is proportional to the displacement of the piston. Heat is transferred
to the gas, causing the piston to rise and compress the spring until the volume inside the
cylinder doubles and pressure becomes 1MPa. If the cross sectional area of the piston is
0.2m2, determine the spring constant.