STEAM PROPERTIES | LECTURE PROBLEMS

1. Which of the following will best describe water at 200 16. Calculate the work done by a system in which 1kmol
deg C with pressure of 1.40 MPa? of water completely evaporates at 100°C and 1 atm
A. Wet Steam C. Superheated pressure.
B. Dry Steam D. Subcooled water 17. At P = 2.5 kPa, determine the value of
2. Which of the following will best describe water at 1 𝑡𝑠𝑎𝑡 , ℎ𝑔 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑓 using approximate formulas.
MPa and s = 6.9917 kJ/kg-K. 18. Calculate the enthalpy of water at 212F and 14.7 psi
A. Wet Steam C. Superheated considering the dryness factor is 30%.
B. Dry Steam D. Subcooled water 19. Find the heat needed to raise the temperature of water
3. Which of the following will best describe water at from 30 °C to 100 °C with 60% quality. Consider an
75006.17 mmHg and u = 1306 kJ/kg-K. atmospheric pressure of 101.325 kPa. Use the
A. Wet Steam C. Superheated approximate enthalpy formula of liquid.
B. Dry Steam D. Subcooled water A. 1,647.29 kJ/kg C. 1504.66 kJ/kg
4. Which of the following will best describe water at B. 2,257k kJ/kg D. 254.44 kJ/kg
3Mpa and t = 234 deg C? 20. What is the approximate value of temperature of water
A. Wet Steam C. Dry Steam having enthalpy of 208 Btu/lb?
B. Superheated D. Subcooled water A. 138.67℃ C. 258.67℃
5. The pressure and temperature of steam in a line are B. 115.55℃ D. 68.67℃
determined to be 65 psia and 298F. Since these data 21. Steam at 2 MPa and 250°C in a rigid cylinder is cooled
are inconclusive, a sample of steam is passed through until the quality is 30%. Find the heat rejected from the
a separating calorimeter and 0.50 lb of water is cylinder.
collected in 5 minutes. From the orifice data, the rate A. -423.23 kJ/kg C. -1265.02 kJ/kg
of flow of dry vapor is found to be 0.40 lb per minute. B. -926.26 kJ/kg D. 1082.34 kJ/kg
Find the quality of steam 22. At 1.3 MPa, a mixture of steam and water has an
6. Steam at a pressure of 0.90 MPa has entropy of 4.967 entropy of 3 kJ/kg-K, Find the enthalpy of the mixture.
kJ/kg-K. Compute the following: A. 1162.40 kJ/kg C. 1994.55 kJ/kg
A. Specific Volume B. 1052.4 kJ/kg D. 920.66 kJ/kg
B. Internal Energy 23. A mixture with 70% quality at 500 kPa is heated
C. Enthalpy isothermally until its pressure is 300 kPa. Find the heat
7. Find the temperature of saturated steam at a pressure added during the process.
of 1 in Hg absolute. A. 2250.63 kJ/kg C. 745.92 kJ/kg
8. Find the temperature of saturated steam at 850 psia. B. 1225.42 kJ/kg D. 620.63 kJ/kg
9. Steam at a temperature of 300 °C has specific volume 24. A tank contains exactly one kilogram of water
of 0.09765 𝑚3 /𝑘𝑔. Determine the following: consisting of liquid and vapor in equilibrium at 1 MPa.
A. Pressure If the liquid contains one-third and the remaining is
B. Specific Internal Energy vapor of the volume of the tank, what is the enthalpy
C. Specific Enthalpy of the contents of the tank?
D. Specific Entropy A. 434.63 kJ/kg C. 324.33 kJ/kg
10. For steam at 600 psia and 800 deg F, find the superheat B. 664.42 kJ/kg D. 785.92 kJ/kg
and internal energy. 25. Steam leaves an industrial boiler at 827.4 kPa and
11. Water from the feed pump enters the boiler at 1200 171.6°C. A portion of the steam is passed through a
psia and 275 °F. Find the degree subcooled and the throttling calorimeter and is exhausted to the
enthalpy of water. atmosphere when the calorimeter pressure is 101.4
12. If the temperature held constant and the pressure is kPa. How much moisture is leaving the boiler
increased beyond the saturation pressure, then the container if the temperature of the steam at the
working medium must be: calorimeter is 115.6°C?
A. Saturated vapor C. Saturated liquid A. 3.92% C. 5.65%
B. Compressed liquid D. Subcooled liquid B. 3.08% D. 2.34%
13. A 60-liter rigid tank with adiabatic walls is divided
into equal parts A and B by partition. On one side is
steam at 0.68 MPa, 170 °C; on the other side is steam
at 4 MPa, 370 °C. Find the following:
i. Specific volume of mixture
ii. Final stored energy of the mixture
iii. Final enthalpy of the mixture
iv. Pressure of the mixture
14. A 0.0856 m3 drum contains saturated water and
saturated vapor at 370 °C. Compute the mass of liquid
if it has the same volume as the vapor.
15. A 0.0856 m3 drum contains saturated water and
saturated vapor at 370°C. Compute the volume of the
vapor if it has the same mass as the liquid.