ME 203 Thermodynamics-1 Homework 3

Due Date: 12.12.2013 in class

Q.1. Suppose that you have relatives in a village and working as farmer. You visited them in summer holiday and your uncle said that, "Okay my nephew/niece, you are a mechanical engineer at Orta Dou, I have a problem to solve. I want to select a pump to irrigate my farm from the river. What should be the size of it?" You look the farm and river and estimate the elevation of farm as 10m. You see the pipe that your uncle will use which has diameter of 10cm. You will design the pump as the discharge velocity will be 3m/s and velocity at the inlet is assumed to be zero. The pump is located at the river level. You know that pressure drop in the pipe is Ppipe=2kPa/m, and you will need 20m pipe.

You know that efficiency of a typical pump is about 85% which is given as Wideal/Wactual. For Wideal, inlet and exit temperatures of fluid are same. For both ideal and actual cases you will assume there is no heat transfer to the surroundings from pump or pipes. Atmospheric pressure is Patm=100kPa. a) Determine the power required to operate the pump. b) You know that in summer, water temperature of the river is nearly 18C. Find the exit temperature of the discharge water. Please note that there is no thermodynamics table at the farm, no wi-fi or 3G etc. Only you remember the density and specific heat of water which are 1000kg/m3 and 4.2kJ/kgK respectively. Hint: Take pump as control volume.

ME 203 Thermodynamics-1 Homework 3

Due Date: 12.12.2013 in class

Q.2. It is required to compress one kilogram of air initially at 300K and 100kPa to a pressure of 500kPa in a steady flow process. Which of the following reversible processes requires the least work: a) Isothermal b) Adiabatic Show the two processes on the same p-v diagram indicating the values (T,P, and v) at the inlet and exit states. What is the work and heat interactions and the change of internal energy of fluid during each compression process? Assume air is an ideal gas with constant specific heats. Q.3. Steam enters a turbine operating at steady state at 2MPa, 360C with a velocity of 100m/s. Saturated vapor exists at 0.1 MPa and a velocity of 50m/s. The elevation of the inlet is 4 m higher than at the exit. The mass flow rate of the steam is 15kg/s, and the power developed is 7MW. Let g=9.81 m/s2. Determine a) the area at the inlet, in m2 b) the rate of heat transfer between the turbine and its surroundings, in kW Q.4. An air-conditioning system is shown in Figure in which air flows over tubes carrying Refrigerant 134a. Air enters with a volumetric flow rate of 50 m3/min at 42C, 1 bar, and exits at 32C, 0.95 bar. Refrigerant enters the tubes at 5 bar with a quality of 30% and exits at 5 bar, 30C. Ignoring heat transfer at the outer surface of the air conditioner, and neglecting kinetic and potential energy effects, determine at steady state a) the mass flow rate of the refrigerant, in kg/min. b) the rate of heat transfer, in kJ/min, between the air and refrigerant.