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Eddy Current Measurment Device

Problem sketch

Solve with EES. Document all necessary balances.

In order to measure the loss associated with eddy currents in a motor stator designed to operate at low
temperature you have developed the experiment shown in the problem sketch. The stator core is placed in a V
= 1.5 L tank of two-phase nitrogen that is placed on a sensitive scale. The tank is equipped with a relief valve
that maintains the pressure at Prv = 2 atm. The piping for the relief valve allows only saturated vapor to leave
the tank and the mass flow from the relief valve exhausts to ambient pressure, Pamb = 1 atm. You have
separately measured the mass of the tank and stator alone; therefore, you know at the start of the experiment
that the mass of nitrogen in the tank is m1 = 119 g. The initial pressure in the tank is P1 = Prv . You energize
the core with an oscillating voltage and allow it to operate for t = 50 min. During this time, the mass of nitrogen
decreases by mout = 50 g due to the boil off induced by the eddy current losses in the stator as well as heat
transfer to the tank from surroundings at Tamb = 20°C. You have separately measured the rate of heat transfer
to the tank as ˙
Qamb = 0.92 W. The eddy current losses manifest themselves as an electrical work transfer to the
core, Ẇ e , that is subsequently transferred as heat to the nitrogen.

a. What is the rate of eddy current loss suggested by the experimental results (i.e., what is Ẇ e )?
b. Determine the entropy generated (J/K) due to the conversion of the electrical work to the stator to a
heat transfer to the liquid nitrogen. Clearly draw the system that you use to accomplish this calculation.
c. Determine the entropy generated (J/K) due to the heat transfer from ambient through the tank wall to
the liquid nitrogen. Clearly draw the system that you use to accomplish this calculation.
d. Determine the entropy generated (J/K) due to the flow through the valve. Clearly draw the system that
you use to accomplish this calculation.
e. Determine the entropy generated (J/K) due to the re-equilibration of the cold nitrogen leaving the valve
with the atmosphere. Clearly draw the system that you use to accomplish this calculation.
f. Draw a system that encompasses all of the sources of entropy generation that were separately considered
in parts (b) through (e). Carry out an entropy balance on this system and show that the total entropy
generation is the sum of what you calculated in parts (b) through (e).

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