Homework-4 ME 2234: Applied Thermodynamics, Spring 2013 University of Connecticut Instructor: Kamal Kumar Assigned: 19-Feb, 2013 Due:

26-Feb, 2013 (All questions carry equal weightage) 1. An air compressor operates at steady state with air entering at 1=1 bar, 1 =17 C and exiting at 2 =5 bar. The air undergoes a polytropic process for which the compressor work input is 162.2 kJ per kg of air flowing. Determine: a. The temperature of the air at the compressor exit b. The heat transfer in kJ/kg of air flowing c. Sketch the process on a p-v and T-s diagrams and indicate the work and heat transfers. i. Assume ideal gas and neglect kinetic and potential energies. 2. In a Carnot cycle, heat is supplied at 350C and rejected at 27C. The working fluid is water, which, while receiving heat, evaporates from liquid at 350C to steam at 350C. The associated entropy change is 1.44 kJ/kg K. a. If the cycle operates on a stationary mass of 1 kg of water, how much is the work done per cycle, and how much is the heat supplied? b. If the cycle operates in steady flow with a power output of 20 kW, what is the steam flow rate? 3. A body of constant heat capacity Cp and at a temperature Ti is put in contact with a reservoir at a higher temperature Tf. The pressure remains constant while the body comes to equilibrium with the reservoir. a. Show that the entropy change of the universe is equal to 1 + b. Is the entropy change positive? 4. An ideal gas whose adiabatic exponent equals goes through a cycle consisting of two isochoric and two isobaric lines. The absolute temperature of the gas rises times both in the isochoric heating and the isobaric expansion. Find the efficiency of the cycle

5. A working fluid undergoes a cycle within which the temperature varies fold, and consists of one isentropic and one isothermal process. Determine the efficiencies of the cycles shown in figures (a) and (b). Assume clockwise cycle and that T and S are the temperature and entropy. a.
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