Fayoum University First Semester Thermodynamic

Faculty of Engineering Date: 23 / 11/2015

Dept. Of / Time : 1 Hours Name/
1. Steam at 7 bar and dryness fraction 0.9 expands in a cylinder behind a piston isothermally and
reversibly to a pressure of 1.5 bar. Calculate the change of internal energy and the change of
enthalpy per kg of steam. The heat supplied during the process is found to be 400 kJ/kg.
Calculate the work done per kg of steam?

2. 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 5C and 105 kPa at a rate of 1.25 m3/s while warm air enters at 34C and 105 kPa.
The air leaves the room at 24C. 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?

3. 0.1 m3 of an ideal gas at 300 K and 1 bar is compressed adiabatically to 8bar. It is then cooled at
constant volume and further expanded isothermally so as to reach the condition from where it
 started. Calculate : (i)Pressure at the end of constant volume cooling.(ii)Change in internal energy
during constant volume process. (iii)Net work done and heat transferred during the cycle. Assume
cp=14.3kJ/kg K and cv= 10.2 kJ/kg K.

4. An inventor claims to have developed an engine which delivers a net power of 450 kW when
consuming fuel of calorific value of 43000 kJ/Kg at a rate of 0.015 Kg/S combustion of the fuel
gives an upper temperature limit of 560oC and the engine rejects heat to a sink maintained an
artificially low temperature of -50oC by a refrigerator driven by the engine . the refrigerator rejects
heat at the atmospheric temperature of 33oC show whether or the inventor claims are justifiable?
Fayoum University First Semester Thermodynamic
Faculty of Engineering Date: 23 / 11/2015
Dept. Of / Time : 1 Hours Name/
1-A closed vessel of 0.3 m3 capacity contains steam at 8 bar and 200C ;
(i) Determine the mass of the steam in the vessel.
(ii) The vessel is cooled till the steam becomes just dry and saturated. What will be the pressure
of the steam in the vessel at this stage?

2-90 kJ of heat are supplied to a system at a constant volume. The system rejects 95 kJ of heat at
constant pressure and 18 kJ of work is done on it. The system is brought to original state by
adiabatic process. Determine : (i)The adiabatic work ;
(ii)The values of internal energy at all end states if initial value is 105 kJ?

3- An inventor claims to have developed an engine which delivers a net power of 450 kW when
consuming fuel of calorific value of 43000 kJ/Kg at a rate of 0.015 Kg/S combustion of the fuel
gives an upper temperature limit of 560oC and the engine rejects heat to a sink maintained an
 artificially low temperature of -50oC by a refrigerator driven by the engine . the refrigerator rejects
heat at the atmospheric temperature of 33oC show whether or the inventor claims are justifiable?

4- A Steam at 5 MPa and 400C enters a nozzle steadily with a velocity of 80 m/s, and it leaves at 2
MPa and 300C. The inlet area of the nozzle is 50 cm2, and heat is being lost at a rate of 120 kJ/s.
Determine (a) the mass flow rate of the steam, (b) the exit velocity of the steam, and (c) the exit
area of the nozzle.
Fayoum University First Semester Thermodynamic
Faculty of Engineering Date: 23 / 11/2015
Dept. Of / Time : 1 Hours Name/
1- A gas in a pistoncylinder assembly undergoes a compression process for which the relation
between pressure and volume is given by PVn=constant. The initial volume is 0.1 m3, the final
volume is 0.04 m3, and the final pressure is 2 bar. Determine the initial pressure, in bar, and the
work for the process, in kJ, if (a) n= 0 (b) n = 1 (c) n =1.4?

2- Air flows steadily at the rate of 0.4 kg/s through an air compressor, entering at 6 m/s with a
pressure of 1 bar and a specific volume of 0.85 m3/kg, and leaving at 4.5 m/s with a pressure of 6.9
bar and a specific volume of 0.16 m3/kg. The internal energy of air leaving is 88 kJ/kg greater than
that of the air entering. Cooling water in a jacket surrounding the cylinder absorbs heat from the air
at the rate of 59 kJ/s. Calculate the power required to drive the compressor and the inlet and outlet
pipe cross-sectional areas?

3- An inventor claims to have developed an engine which delivers a net power of 450 kW when
consuming fuel of calorific value of 43000 kJ/Kg at a rate of 0.015 Kg/S combustion of the fuel
gives an upper temperature limit of 560oC and the engine rejects heat to a sink maintained an
 artificially low temperature of -50oC by a refrigerator driven by the engine . the refrigerator rejects
heat at the atmospheric temperature of 33oC show whether or the inventor claims are justifiable?

4- 90 kJ of heat are supplied to a system at a constant volume. The system rejects 95 kJ of heat at
constant pressure and 18 kJ of work is done on it. The system is brought to original state by
adiabatic process. Determine : (i)The adiabatic work ;
(ii)The values of internal energy at all end states if initial value is 105 kJ?
Fayoum University First Semester Thermodynamic
Faculty of Engineering Date: 23 / 11/2015
Dept. Of / Time : 1 Hours Name/
1-A pistoncylinder device contains 0.8 kg of nitrogen initially at 100 kPa and 27C. The nitrogen is
now compressed slowly in a polytropic process during which PV1.3=constant until the volume is
reduced by one-half. Determine the work done and the heat transfer for this process?

2- An inventor claims to have developed an engine which delivers a net power of 450 kW when
consuming fuel of calorific value of 43000 kJ/Kg at a rate of 0.015 Kg/S combustion of the fuel
gives an upper temperature limit of 560oC and the engine rejects heat to a sink maintained an
artificially low temperature of -50oC by a refrigerator driven by the engine . the refrigerator rejects
heat at the atmospheric temperature of 33oC show whether or the inventor claims are justifiable?

3- In an air compressor air flows steadily at the rate of 0.5 kg/s through an air compressor. It enters
the compressor at 6 m/s with a pressure of 1 bar and a specific volume of 0.85 m3/kg and leaves at
5 m/s with a pressure of 7 bar and a specific volume of 0.16 m3/kg. The internal energy of the air
leaving is 90 kJ/kg greater than that of the air entering. Cooling water in a jacket surrounding the
 cylinder absorbs heat from the air at the rate of 60 kJ/s. Calculate (i) The power required to drive
the compressor ;(ii) The inlet and output pipe cross-sectional areas?

4- 0.15 m3 of an ideal gas at a pressure of 15 bar and 550 K is expanded isothermally to 4 times the
initial volume. It is then cooled to 290 K at constant volume and then compressed back
polytropically to its initial state. Calculate the net work done and heat transferred during the cycle?