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CHE 3200 Fall 2011
Practice Exam for 2013
4 questions
100 Total Points
Open Book/Open Notes
1. (25 points) An Italian wine producer has proposed aging Champagne-style sparkling
wines in an undersea storage facility, which replicates the cool storage conditions of
traditional cellar aging. An added benefit is that the pressure under the surface of the
sea can counteract the pressure built up in the sparkling wine bottles due to carbon
dioxide (which is the source of Champagne bubbles).
The typical pressure developed within sparkling wine bottles is 6 atmospheres absolute
pressure, or 6.08 x 105 Pa. Assuming that the sea water is at 283K, and that density is
constant, with a specific gravity of 1.025, determine the depth at which the pressure of
the sea water is equal to the pressure inside the bottle of sparkling wine.

2. (25 points) Professor P, a renowned thermodynamics instructor, aspires to fly James

Bond-style, with a backpack-mounted rocket engine. The rocket engine emits exhaust
through a nozzle at a velocity of 1500 m/s. If Prof. P weighs 75 Kg, and the weight of the
rocket assembly is an additional 50 Kg, including 25 Kg of fuel, estimate how long Prof. P
can remain airborne before his fuel runs out. (Hint: The fuel in a rocket engine contains
its own oxidizer, and 100% of the fuel is converted to exhaust in the combustion
process. Assume that Prof. Ps flight occurs at steady-state conditions, i.e. constant mass
flow rate of exhaust through the nozzle, and that the rate of fuel consumption is just
enough to lift Prof. P and his rocket assembly off the ground.)

3. (25 points) A long rod of radius R rotates at constant angular speed in a large pool of
water, as shown below. The motion of the rod produces a velocity field in the
surrounding water in which v = v(r), and vr = vz = 0. Use the Navier-Stokes equations to
derive an equation for v(r). Hint: far away from the surface of the rotating rod, at
r=, v=0.

4. (25 points) At maximum pumping pressure, the flow rate of water (T=293K) through a
100 m section of 3 inch diameter cast iron pipe is 0.04 m3/s. Estimate how much the
flow rate could be increased by replacing the 3 inch cast iron pipe with 3 inch drawn
tubing.