IQ2001.

Thermodynamics
Cecilia D. Treviño Quintanilla, PhD

August-December 2020

IQ2001. THERMODYNAMICS
Dra. Cecilia Daniela Treviño Quintanilla (cdtrevino@tec.mx)

HOMEWORK #1. FIRST PARTIAL

1. The pressure in a natural gas pipeline is measured by the manometer shown in Fig.
P1-69E with one of the arms open to the atmosphere where the local atmospheric
pressure is 14.2 psia. Determine the absolute pressure in the pipeline.

2. A university campus has 200 classrooms and 400 faculty offices. The classrooms
are equipped with 12 fluorescent tubes, each consuming 110 W, including the
electricity used by the ballasts. The faculty offices, on average, have half as many
tubes. The campus is open 240 days a year. The classrooms and faculty offices are
not occupied an average of 4 h a day, but the lights are kept on. If the unit cost of
electricity is $0.11/kWh, determine how much the campus will save a year if the lights
in the classrooms and faculty offices are turned off during unoccupied periods.

3. Water is pumped from a lake to a storage tank 15 m above at a rate of 70 L/s while
consuming 15.4 kW of electric power. Disregarding any frictional losses in the pipes
and any changes in kinetic energy, determine (a) the overall efficiency of the pump–
motor unit and (b) the pressure difference between the inlet and the exit of the pump.
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4. Consider a 24-kW hooded electric open burner in an area where the unit costs of
electricity and natural gas are $0.10/kWh and $1.20/therm (1 therm = 105,500 kJ),
respectively. The efficiency of open burners can be taken to be 73 percent for electric
burners and 38 percent for gas burners. Determine the rate of energy consumption
and the unit cost of utilized energy for both electric and gas burners.

5. One pound-mass of water fills a 2.4264-ft3 weighted piston-cylinder device at a

temperature of 600°F. The piston-cylinder device is now cooled until its temperature
is 200°F. Determine the final pressure of water, in psia, and the volume, in ft3.

6. Water initially at 200 kPa and 300°C is contained in a piston-cylinder device fitted
with stops. The water is allowed to cool at constant pressure until it exists as a
saturated vapor and the piston rests on the stops. Then the water continues to cool
until the pressure is 100 kPa. On the T- diagrams sketch, with respect to the
saturation lines, the process curves passing through both the initial, intermediate,
and final states of the water. Label the T, P and values for end states on the
process curves. Find the overall change in internal energy between the initial and
final states per unit mass of water.

7. A 1-m3 tank containing air at 10°C and 350 kPa is connected through a valve to
another tank containing 3 kg of air at 35°C and 200 kPa. Now the valve is opened,
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August-December 2020

and the entire system is allowed to reach thermal equilibrium with the surroundings,
which are at 20°C. Determine the volume of the second tank and the final equilibrium
pressure of air

8. Methane at 10 MPa and 300 K is heated at constant pressure until its volume has
increased by 80 percent. Determine the final temperature using the ideal gas
equation of state and the compressibility factor. Which of these two results is more
accurate?