ASSIGNMENT 1 TCE301T THERMODYNAMICS IIIA 2017

Q1. Consider a system containing water in the following states. What phases are
present?
(a) P = 10 bar; T =170 C
(b) v= 3 m3/kg; T =70 C
(c) P = 60 bar; v=0.05 m3/kg

Q2. Water is cooled in a rigid closed container from the critical point to 10 bar.

Determine the quality q of the final state.

Q3. Consider a pistoncylinder assembly that contains 2.5 L of an ideal gas at 30C

and 8 bar. The gas reversibly expands to 5 bar.

(a) Write an energy balance for this process (you may neglect changes in potential

and kinetic energy).

(b) Suppose that the process is done isothermally. What is the change in internal

energy, U, for the process? What is the work done, W, during the process? What is

the heat transferred, Q?

(c) If the process is done adiabatically (instead of isothermally), will the final

temperature be greater than, equal to, or less than 30C? Explain.

Q4. You have 0.4 mol of gas A within a pistoncylinder assembly. The initial

pressure is 20 bar, and the initial temperature is 675 K. The system then undergoes

an adiabatic process where the piston expands against constant external pressure of

1 bar until the forces balance.

(a) What is the final temperature of the system?

(b) How much work is done during the process?

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You may assume gas A behaves as an ideal gas during this process. In checking the

lab notes for data for gas A, you come across the following experiment that was

performed on a closed system containing pure gas A within a rigid container. The

container was connected to a heat source (in this case a resistance heater) and was

otherwise well insulated. As a known amount of heat, Q, was provided through the

resistive heater, the temperature, T, of the system was measured. The following

data were collected for one mole of species A:

T, 29

K 3 300 350 400 450 500 550 600 650 700

Q, 30. 735.8 1240.4 2505.5 3248.0 3915.6 4498.1
0 1933.90 5155.70
J 3 0 0 0 0 0 0