Downloaded From www.rejinpaul.com Reg. No. : | Question Paper Code : 77207 B.E/B.Tech. DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRILIMAY 2015. a ‘Third Semester @: Mechanical Engineering pee cree: ME 6301 — ENGINEERING THERMOD cS UL (Common to Automobile Engineering and Mechanical Ee i (Regulation 2013) Nr Time : Three hours i (Uneetappenved Tharaiedy acwie TBs ian ingtam, Payehed Waban chart and Refrigerant property tables Perm) the Examinations) aneee Ath gues. AY PART Am (10). 2 = 20 marke) % 1. State the first law ye a cao Stem undergoing a process and a cycle. Why dove freo woth have zero work transfor? 3. Whatis a thermal dhergy reservoir? Explain the term ‘source’ and ‘sink’. ~~ 4. Whatlis a reversed heat engine? 5. What is meant by “dryness fraction of steam’? “6... Draw the standard Rankine cycle on P-v and T-s coordinates 7. What is Joule-Thomson coefficient? Why is it zero for an ideal gas? 8. What is the law of corresponding states? 9, Whatis Amagat’s law? 10. What is sensible heating? inpaul.com Cr Grow With UsDownloaded From www.rejinpaul.com PART B— (5 x 16=80 marks) 11. (a) A gas undergoes a thermodynamic cycle consisting of the following processes : @ Process 1-2: Constant pressure p,=14bar, V,=0.028 m’, Wy, =10.5 kJ. ‘ (i) Process 2-3: Compression with pV = constant, U, =U, Gi) Process 3-1: Constant volume, U, -U, =-26.4 kd. ‘There are no significant changes in KE and PE, (1) Sketch the eycle on a.p-V diagram. ae °. (2) Calculate the network for the cycle at "yt @) Calculate the heat transfor for bostiyt a 2Q=50 Gy @ Show that o12 cycle” "OY () A turbine operating uflder Sgatow conditions receives steam at the following state : pressure jar: specific volume 0.143 m®/kg; internal energy 2590 kd/kg; ty 80 m/s. The state of the stream leaving the turbine is = ease ar : specific volume 4.37 m*kg : Internal energy 2360 kdfkg ity 90 m/s. Heat is lost to the surroundings at the rate of 0.25,kd/s, If the rate of steam flow is 0.38 ke/s, what is the power deyeloped by the turbine? o 12, (a) A reversible heat engine operates between two reservoirs at temperature eS and 40°C. Tho engino drives a reversible refrigerator which erates between reservoirs at temperatures of 40°C and -20°C. The heat “ctiensfer to the heat engine is 2000 kd and the network output for the coinbined engine refrigerator is 360 kJ. Calculate the heat transfer to the “yefrigerant and the net heat transfor to the reservoir at 40°C. Or (b) Two kg of air at 500 kPa, 80°C expands adiabatically in a closed system until its volume is doubled and its temperature becomes equal to that of the surroundings which is at 100 kPa, 5°C. For this process determine : @ the maximum work (@ the change in availability and (iii) . the irrovorsibility. - (a C)" inagul.com Grow With Us18. @ ) 14. (a) () 15. - (@) ) ~\ Downloaded From www.rejinpaul.com 'A vessel of volume 0.04 m? contains a mixture of saturated water and saturated steam at a temperature of 250°C. The mass of the liquid present is 9 kg. Find the pressure, the mass, the specifie volume, the enthalpy, and entropy, and the internal energy of the mixture. (16) Or ‘A steam power plant operates on a simple ideal Rankine cycle between the pressure limits of 3 MPa and 50-kPa. The temperature of the steam, at tho turbine inlet is 300°C, and the mass flow rate of steam through the’ cycle is 35 kg/a. Show the cyclo on a T-s diagram with respest TO, saturation lines, and determine } (@ the thermal efficiency of the eyele and pe (i) the net power output of the power plant. A re e Derive any three of the Maxwell relations. \ ‘ FR Oe .. \/ i Determine the pressure of nitrogen (ga% at 1=175K and v=0.00375 m®/kg on the basis of pm ad ye The van der Waal Yonstants for —snitrogen are a=0.175 m* kPaike®,,b=0:00138 mi/kg : ®) ay, (i) the ideal-gas equation of state. A ) ® (i) the van der Waals equation(of si sy > ‘A gas mixture conslgts of 7 he nitrogen and 2 kg oxygen, at 4 bar and 978C. Calculate) the Mole fraction, partial pressures, molar mass, gas constant, volum@and density. ° or Bey air at 1,0182 bar has a DBT of 30°C and WBT of 25°C. @, the partial pressure of water vapour “G)- specific humidity Gi) the dew point temperature (iv) - the relative humidity (¥) the degree of eaturation (vi) the density of air in the mixture (vii). the density of vapour in the mixture and (viii) the enthalpy of tae mixture. Use the thermodynamic tables only. @«2=16) . (2 rejingayl.com “ie Grow With Us i