1. Air flows into a gasoline engine at 95 kPa, 300 K.

The air is then compressed

with a volumetric compression ratio of 8:1. In the combustion process 1300 kJ/kg
of energy is released as the fuel burns. Find the temperature and pressure after
combustion.

2. A gasoline engine has a volumetric compression ratio of 9. The state before

compression is 290 K, 90 kPa, and the peak cycle temperature is 1800 K. Find the
pressure after expansion, the cycle net work and the cycle efficiency using
properties from Table of air properties.

3. A stoichiometric mixture of gasoline and air has an energy release upon

combustion of approximately 2800 kJ/kg of the mixture. To approximate an actual
spark-ignition engine consider an air-standard Otto cycle that has a heat addition of
2800 kJ/kg of air, a compression ratio of 7, and a pressure and temperature at the
beginning of the compression process of 90 kPa, 10°C. Assuming constant specific
heat, determine

a. The maximum pressure and tempreture of the cycle.

b. the thermal efficiency of the cycle.

c. the mean effective pressure.

4. When methanol produced from coal is considered as an alternative fuel to

gasoline for automotive engines, it is recognized that the engine can be designed
with a higher compression ratio, say 10 instead of 7, but that the energy release
with combustion for a stoichiometric mixture with air is slightly smaller, about
2700 kJ/kg. Repeat Problem 3 using these values and compare the result.

5. Consider an ideal air-standard diesel cycle in which the state before the
compression process is 95 kPa, 290 K, and the compression ratio is 20. What
maximum temperature must the cycle have to have a thermal efficiency of 60%?