Tutorial 8 CyclePad Thermodynamic

Properties of an Ideal Gas

A piston-cylinder device contains 0.1 kg of air at 150 kPa

and 200C. Consider the air is the system, find the
boundary work of the following processes and draw the
processes on a pV diagram using CyclePad:

(A) Heat is added to the air in a constant volume

(isochoric) process until the temperature reaches 300C.
During this process the piston does not move.

(B) Heat is added in a constant pressure (isobaric)

process until the volume is doubled.

(C) Air is expanded in a constant temperature

(isothermal) process until the volume is doubled.
To solve this problem by CyclePad, we take the following
steps:

1. Build
(A) Take a begin, a heating-combustion device in case (a)
and case (b) or an expansion device in case (c), and an
end from the closed-system inventory shop and connect
them.
Switch to analysis mode.

2. Analysis
(A) Assume the heating-combustion is isochoric in case
(a) or isobaric in case (b).
(B) Input the given information: (i) working fluid is air, (ii)
the mass, initial air pressure and temperature of the
process are 0.1 kg, 150 kPa and 200C, (iii) the final air
temperature of the process is 300C in case (a), or the
final specific volume is twice the initial specific volume in
case (b) and case (c).

3. Display results
(A) Display the expansion device results.
The answers are: case (a) W=0 kJ, case (b) W=13.56 kJ,
and case (c) W=9.40 kJ.
(a)
(b)
(c)