Faculty of Engineering

Thermal Power Engineering

MPE 112s

Sheet (3) (Ideal Gas)

system comprising of gas in cylinder at pressure of 689 kPa Fluid expands from a
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volume of 0.04 m3 to 0.045 m3 while pressure remains constant. Paddle wheel in the
system does a work of 4.88 kJ on the system. Determine (a) work done by system on
the piston (b) the net amount of work done on or by the system.

A gas at 65 kPa, 200C is heated in a closed, rigid vessel till it reaches to 400C.
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Determine the amount of heat required for 0.5 kg of this gas if internal energy at 200C
and 400C are 26.6 kJ/kg and 37.8 kJ/kg respectively.

Carbon dioxide passing through a heat exchanger at a rate of 50 kg/hr is to be cooled

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down from 800C to 50C. Determine the rate of heat removal assuming flow of gas to
be of steady and constant pressure type. Take cp = 1.08 kJ/kg K.

A completely evacuated cylinder of 0.78 m3 volume is filled by opening its valve to

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atmosphere and air rushing into it. Determine the work done by the air and by
surroundings on system.

Determine the heat transfer and its direction for a system in which a perfect gas
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having molecular weight of 16 is compressed from 101.3 kPa, 20C to a pressure of 600
kPa following the law p v1.3 = constant. Take specific heat at constant pressure of gas
as 1.7 kJ/kg.K.

In a nozzle air at 627 C and twice atmospheric pressure enters with negligible velocity
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and leaves at a temperature of 27 C. Determine velocity of air at exit, assuming no
heat loss and nozzle being horizontal. Take Cp = 1.005 kJ/kg.K for air.

An air compressor requires shaft work of 200 kJ/kg of air and the compression of air
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causes increase in enthalpy of air by 100 kJ/kg of air. Cooling water required for
cooling the compressor picks up heat of 90 kJ/kg of air. Determine the heat
transferred from compressor to atmosphere.

3 kg of air at 1.5 bar pressure and 77C temperature at state 1 is compressed

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polytropically to state 2 at pressure 7.5 bar, index of compression being 1.2. It is then
cooled at constant temperature to its original state 1. Find the net work done and
heat transferred.
An evacuated bottle of 0.5 m3 volume is slowly filled from atmospheric air at 1.0135
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bars until the pressure inside the bottle also becomes 1.0135 bar. Due to heat
transfer, the temperature of air inside the bottle after filling is equal to the
atmospheric air temperature. Determine the amount of heat transfer.

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10- A rigid and insulated tank of 1 m volume is divided by partition into two equal volume
chambers having air at 0.5 MPa, 27C and 1 MPa, 500 K. Determine final pressure and
temperature if the partition is removed.

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