University of the West Indies

Department of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering

MENG 1001: Engineering Thermodynamics I
Tutorial No 3: Reversible & Irreversible Processes

1) Nitrogen (molar mass 28 kg/kmol) expands reversibly in a perfectly thermally insulated

cylinder from 3.5 bar and 200 oC to a volume of 0.9 m3. If the initial volume occupied was
0.03 m3 calculate the work input.

Assume nitrogen to be a perfect gas with cv = 0.741 kJ/kg K.

[ 9.31 kJ]

2) A mass of 0.05 kg of carbon dioxide (molar mass 44 kg/kmol), occupying a volume of 0.03
m3 at 1.025 bar, is compressed reversibly until the pressure is 6.15 bar. Calculate the final
temperature, the work done on the CO2 and the heat transferred:
(i) When the process is according to a law pv1.4 = constant.
(ii) When the process is isothermal.
(iii) When the process takes place in a perfectly thermally insulated cylinder.

Assume carbon dioxide to be a perfect gas and take γ = 1.3.

[270oC, - 5.135kJ, 1.712 kJ; 52.5 °C, -5.51 kJ, - 5.51 kJ; 219°C; -5.25 kJ, 0 kJ ]

3) Air at 6.9 bar and 260 oC is throttled to 5.5 bar before expanding through a nozzle to a
pressure of 1.1 bar. Assuming that the air flows reversibly in steady flow through the nozzle
and that no heat is rejected, calculate the velocity of the air at exit from the nozzle when the
inlet velocity is 100m/s.
[636 m/s]

4) Steam from a superheater at 7 bar and 300 oC is mixed in steady adiabatic flow with wet
steam at 7 bar, dryness fraction 0.9. Calculate the mass of wet steam required per kilogram of
superheated steam to produce steam at 7 bar, dry saturated.
[1.43 kg]

Issued by Sennen Matabadal

Lecturer in Engineering Thermodynamics
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of the West Indies