QUESTION BANK 16.

A mixture of 1 kmol H2O and 1 kmol of O2 at 400 K is heated to 3000 K, 200

TE 5101 ADVANCED THERMODYNAMICS kPa in a steady-state process. Determine the equilibrium composition at the
UNIT III: CHEMICAL THERMODYNAMICS AND EQUILIBRIUM. outlet of the heat exchanger, assuming that the mixture consists of H2O, H2, 02
and OH.
PART A
17.A certain natural gas has the following volumetric analysis: 72 percentage of
1. Define adiabatic flame temperature.
CH4, 9 percentage H2, 14 percentage N2, 2 percentage of O2, 3 percentage CO2.
2. What is the criterion for chemical equilibrium?
This gas is now burned with the stoichiometric amount of air that enters the
3. What do you mean by thermo chemistry?
combustion chamber at 20℃, 1 atm and 80 percent relative humidity. Assuming
4. Write briefly on equilibrium constant.
complete combustion and a total pressure of 1 atm, determine the dew-point
5. Is the concept of equilibrium limited to thermodynamics?
temperature of the products.
6. What are reacting systems?
7. What is enthalpy of formation?
18.Methane gas enters a steady-flow adiabatic combustion chamber at 25℃ and
8. How is second law efficiency of a reactive system defined?
9. Give relations for internal energy and enthalpy of reaction. 1atm. it is burned with 50 percent excess air that also enters 25℃ and 1 atm
10.Define equilibrium compostion. Assuming complete combustion. Determine (i) the temperature of the products,
(ii) the entropy generation arid (iii) the reversible work and exergy destruction.
Assume that T0=298 K and the products leave the combustion chamber at 1 atm
PART B
pressure.
11.Consider the gas - phase reaction at 2000K; CO2+H2=CO+H2O; Determine the
equilibrium constant at 298 K using the enthalpy and entropy data of the
19.Liquid propane enters a combustion chamber at 25℃ at a rate of 0.05 kg/min
species.
where it is mixed and burned with 50 percent excess air that enters the
combustion chamber at 7℃. An analysis of the combustion gases reveals that all
12.Ethane gas is burned in a steady flow process with 30% excess air with both
the hydrogen in the fuel burns to H2O but only 90 percent of carbon burns to
reactants initially at 25℃ and 1 atm. Determine the maximum combustion
CO2, with the remaining 10 percent forming CO. If the exit temperature of the
temperature for the steady flow process.
combustion gases is 1500 K, determine (i) the mass flow rate of the air and (ii)
the rate of heat transfer from the combustion chamber.
13.Derive Gibbs-Duhem Relation and discuss the entropy change of chemical
reacting system.
20.Liquid octane enters the combustion chamber of a gas turbine steadily at 1 atm
and 25℃ and it is burned with air that enters the combustion chamber at the
14.N2O4 gas dissociates by the reaction and at 305K, 1 atm, 20% of the N2O4 is
same state. Determine the adiabatic flame temperature for (i)complete
dissociated. N2O4 = 2 NO2; Find out (i) K (ii) Percentage of dissociation of
combustion with 100 percent theoretical air, (ii) Complete combustion with 400
N2O4 at 0.3 atm (iii) What is the degree of dissociation with 70 g of N2O4 in the
percent theoretical air and (iii) Incomplete combustion (some CO in products)
beginning in 10 liter volume of vessel?
with percent theoretical air.

15.Pure oxygen is heated from 298 K to 3200 K in a steady state process at a

constant pressure of 200 KPa. Find the exit composition and the heat transfer.