QUESTION BANK

TE 5101 ADVANCED THERMODYNAMICS

UNIT I
PART A
1. Is the availability of a system different in different environments?
2. Define Joule-Thomson Co-efficient?
3. Distinguish between reversible and irreversible works.
4. Define thermodynamic potential.
5. Write the second law efficiency of a turbine.
6. Is availability function a thermodynamic property?
7. Define volume expansivity and isothermal compressibility?
8. Define the second law of efficiency
9. What is Joule Thomson Coefficient? Why is it zero for an Ideal gas?
10. Mention the thermodynamic potentials.
PART B

11. Air is compressed steadily by an 8 kW compressor from 100 kPa and 17oC to 600 kPa and
167oC at a rate of 2.1 kg/mm. Neglecting the changes in kinetic and potential energies,
determine (i) the increase in the availability of the air and (ii) the rate of irreversibility of
the process. Assume the surrounding temperature to be at 17oC.
12. Describe Helmholtz energy equation of state and partial derivatives in the single-phase
region
13. 𝜕𝑎
(i) What is Bridgman table? And Evaluate (𝜕𝑃)ℎ using this table.
(ii) Derive the Clausius- Clapeyron equation for phase change
14. i) Show that Cp of a gas obeying the Clausius equation of state, given by p(v - b) = RT, is
independent of pressure.
ii) What is meant by second law efficiency and what is the necessary of introducing the
term second law efficiency
15. A piston-cylinder device contains 0.05 kg of steam at 1 MPa and 300oC. Steam now
expands to a final state of 200 kPa and 150oC, doing work. Heat losses from the system to
the surroundings are estimated to be 2 kJ during this process. Assuming the surroundings
to be at To=25oC and Po= 100 kJ, determine (i) the exergy of the steam at the initial and
final states, (ii) the exergy change of the system, (iii) the exergy destroyed (iv) the
second-law efficiency for the process.
16. The Joule-Kelvin coefficient 𝜇𝐽 is a measure of the temperature change during a throttling
process. A similar measure of the temperature change produced by an isentropic change
of pressure is provided by the coefficient 𝜇𝑆 where Prove that
𝜕𝑇 𝑉
𝜇𝑆 = (𝜕𝑝) ; 𝜇𝑆 − 𝜇𝐽= 𝐶
𝑠 𝑃
17. Steam enters a turbine steadily at 3 MPa and 450oC at a rate of 8 kg/s and exits at 0.2 MPa
and 150oC. The steam is losing heat to the surrounding air at 100 kPa and 25oC at a rate of
300 kW, and the kinetic and potential energy changes are negligible. Determine
(i) the actual power output, (ii) the maximum possible power output, (iii) the second-law
efficiency, the exergy destroyed and the exergy of the steam at the inlet conditions
18. 𝜕𝑠
Using Maxwell relations, determine a relation (𝜕𝑣) for a gas whose equation of state
𝑇
(p – a/v2)(v -b)= RT .
19. 𝜕𝑠 𝜕𝑣
(i) Develop the Maxwell relation (𝜕𝑃) = (𝜕𝑇)
𝑇 𝑃
(ii) Two identical steel blocks each of mass 1000 kg are available at two different
temperatures. The first block is at 1200 K while the second block is at 600 K. The ambient
temperature is 300 K. The specific heat of steel is 0.5 kJ/kg K. The blocks can be used as a
source of energy to obtain work, till they are cooled to 300 K. Calculate the available
anergy of each block.
Assignment 1: 1-10, 15-19; date of submission 01-10-2019