Suez University

Faculty of Petroleum and Mining

Engineering
Sheet 02
Pure Substances

1. A 1.8-m3 rigid tank contains steam at 220oC. One-third of the volume is in the liquid
phase and the rest is in the vapor form. Determine (a) the pressure of the steam, (b) the
quality of the saturated mixture, and (c) the density of the mixture.
2. R-134a, whose specific volume is 0.6243 ft3/lbm, flows through a tube at 80 psia. What is
the temperature in the tube?
3. Three kilograms of water in a container have a pressure of 100 kPa and a temperature of
1508C. What is the volume of this container?
4. Water is being heated in a vertical piston–cylinder device. The piston has a mass of 40 kg
and a cross-sectional area of 150 cm2. If the local atmospheric pressure is 100 kPa,
determine the temperature at which the water starts boiling.
5. Water is boiled in a pan covered with a poorly fitting lid at a specified location. Heat is
supplied to the pan by a 2-kW resistance heater. The amount of water in the pan is
observed to decrease by 1.19 kg in 30 minutes. If it is estimated that 75 percent of
electricity consumed by the heater is transferred to the water as heat, determine the local
atmospheric pressure in that location.

6. Water is to be boiled at sea level in a 30-cm-diameter stainless steel pan placed on top of
a 3-kW electric burner. If 60 percent of the heat generated by the burner is transferred to
the water during boiling, determine the rate of evaporation of water.

7. 10-kg of R-134a at 300 kPa fills a rigid container whose volume is 14 L. Determine the
temperature and total enthalpy in the container. The container is now heated until the
 pressure is 600 kPa. Determine the temperature and total enthalpy when the heating is
completed.

8. Determine the missing properties and the phase descriptions in the following table for
water:

9. A rigid tank initially contains 1.4-kg saturated liquid water at 2008C. At this state, 25
percent of the volume is occupied by water and the rest by air. Now heat is supplied to
the water until the tank contains saturated vapor only. Determine
(a) the volume of the tank.
(b) the final temperature and pressure.
(c) the internal energy change of the water.

10. The pressure gage on a 2.5-m3 oxygen tank reads 500 kPa. Determine the amount of
oxygen in the tank if the temperature is 28oC and the atmospheric pressure is 97 kPa.

11. A 1-m3 tank containing air at 108C and 350 kPa is connected through a valve to another
tank containing 3 kg of air at 35oC and 200 kPa. Now the valve is opened, and the entire
system is allowed to reach thermal equilibrium with the surroundings, which are at 20oC.
Determine the volume of the second tank and thefinal equilibrium pressure of air.

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