THE COPPERBELT UNIVERSITY

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
MC 321/341 – APPLIED THERMODYNAMICS
ASSIGNMENT 1
Due Date: Wednesday, 11th July, 2018
Instructions
Use appropriate diagrams and sketches.
Indicate all applicable formulae.
State all assumptions made.
Discuss your results.
1. What is a manometer and give two practical applications of its use?
2. What are intensive and extensive properties and give examples?
3. A certain fluid at 13 bar is contained in a cylinder behind a piston, the volume being
0.05m3. calculate the work done by the fluid when it expands reversibly:
i. at constant pressure to a final volume of 0.2m3;
ii. according to a linear law to a final volume 0.2 m3 and a final pressure of 2 bar;
iii. according to a law pV=constant to a final volume of 0.07m3;
iv. according to a law pv3=constant to a final volume 0.1m3;
v. according to a law, p= A/V3-B/V to a final volume of 0.2 m3 and a final pressure of
1 bar, where A and B are constants.
Sketch all on a p-v diagram.
4. A fluid at 0.5 bar occupying 0.09 m3 is compressed reversibly to a pressure of 3.5 bar
according to a law pvn=constant the fluid is then heated reversibly at constant volume
until the pressure is 4.5 bar; the specific volume is then 0.5 m3/kg. A reversible expansion
according to a law pv2=constant restores the fluid to its initial state. Sketch the cycle on
a p-v diagram and calculate;
i. the mass of fluid present
ii. the value of n in the first process.
iii. the net work of the cycle.
5. 0.05 kg of steam at 15 bar is contained in a rigid vessel of volume 0.0076m3. What is the
temperature of the steam? If the vessel is cooled, at what temperature will the steam be
just dry saturated? Cooling is continued until the pressure in the vessel is 11 bar; calculate
 the final dryness fraction of the steam, and the heat rejected between the initial and the
final states.
6. Using the property values for refrigerant HFA 134a given in the table below, calculate:
i. The specific enthalpy and specific volume of HFA 134a at -8oC, dryness fraction
0.85;
ii. The specific enthalpy of HFA 134a at 5.7024 bar, 35oC.