HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

CEV 209 – ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS

Designated Problems Set # 4
Date: 08/11/2023

1. An adiabatic gas turbine expands air at 1300 kPa and 500oC to 100 kPa and 127oC. Air
enters the turbine through a 0.2-m2 opening with an average velocity of 40 m/s and exhausts
through a 1-m2 opening. Determine (a) the mass flow rate of air through the turbine and (b)
the power produced by the turbine.

2. Refrigerant-134a enters a compressor at 180 kPa as a saturated vapor with a flow rate of
0.35 m3/min and leaves at 700 kPa. The power supplied to the refrigerant during the
compression process is 2.35 kW. What is the temperature of R-134a at the exit of the
compressor?

3. Refrigerant-134a at 800 kPa and 25oC is throttled to a temperature of -20oC. Determine the
pressure and the internal energy of the refrigerant at the final state.

4. The evaporator of a refrigeration cycle is basically a heat exchanger in which a refrigerant

is evaporated by absorbing heat from a fluid. Refrigerant-22 enters an evaporator at 200 kPa
with a quality of 22 percent and a flow rate of 2.65 L/h. R-22 leaves the evaporator at the
same pressure superheated by 5oC. The refrigerant is evaporated by absorbing heat from the
air, whose flow rate is 0.75 kg/s. Determine (a) the rate of heat absorbed from the air and
(b) the temperature change of air. The properties of R-22 at the inlet and exit of the
condenser are h1 = 220.2 kJ/kg, v1 = 0.0253 m3/kg, and h2 = 398.0 kJ/kg.
5. An air-conditioning system involves the mixing of cold air and warm outdoor air before the
mixture is routed to the conditioned room in steady operation. Cold air enters the mixing
chamber at 7oC and 105 kPa at a rate of 0.55 m3/s, while warm air enters at 34oC and 105
kPa. The air leaves the room at 24oC. The ratio of the mass flow rates of the hot-to-cold air
streams is 1.6. Using variable-specific heats, determine (a) the mixture temperature at the
inlet of the room and (b) the rate of heat gain of the room.

6. In steam power plants, open feedwater heaters are frequently utilized to heat the feedwater
by mixing it with steam bled off the turbine at some intermediate stage. Consider an open
feedwater heater that operates at a pressure of 1000 kPa. Feedwater at 50oC and 1000 kPa
is to be heated with superheated steam at 200oC and 1000 kPa. In an ideal feedwater heater,
the mixture leaves the heater as a saturated liquid at the feedwater pressure. Determine the
ratio of the mass flow rates of the feedwater and the superheated vapor for this case.

7. An adiabatic air compressor is to be powered by a direct-coupled adiabatic steam turbine

that is also driving a generator. Steam enters the turbine at 12.5 MPa and 500oC at a rate of
25 kg/s and exits at 10 kPa and a quality of 0.92. Air enters the compressor at 98 kPa and
295 K at a rate of 10 kg/s and exits at 1 MPa and 620 K. Determine the net power delivered
to the generator by the turbine.