Assignment-4 (ME1100)

Q.1:
A heat engine operates between two reservoirs at 1200K and 300K. It has an efficiency of 50% of
the maximum possible between the two reservoirs. The heat engine only drives a heat pump that
extracts heat from the reservoir at 300K. The heat extracted by the heat pump is twice the heat
rejected by the Heat engine. The heat pump rejects heat to a third reservoir at temperature T. The
COP of the heat pump is 50% of the maximum possible between its two reservoirs. What is the
value of the temperature T. What is the rate of heat rejection from the heat pump if the rate of heat
supply of the heat engine is 500 kW.

Q.2:
Two rigid tanks, each contains 10 kg of N2 gas at 1000 K, 500 kPa. They are now thermally
connected to a reversible heat pump, which heats one and cools the other with no heat transfer to
the surroundings. (One of the tanks is the source and the other is the sink). Gradually one tank is
heated to 1500 K and then the process stops. Find the final (P, T) in both tanks and the work input
to the heat pump, assuming constant heat capacities.

Q.3:
The entropy of steam increases in actual steam turbines as a result of irreversibility. In an effort to
control entropy increase, it is proposed to cool the steam in the turbine by running cooling water
around the turbine casing. It is argued that this will reduce the entropy and the enthalpy of the
steam at the turbine exit and thus increase the work output. As an examiner of this idea, would you
support or reject the proposed idea. Please justify your answer.

Q.4:
Consider a 210-MW steam power plant that operates on a simple ideal Rankine cycle. Steam enters
the turbine at 10 MPa and 500 C and is cooled in the condenser at a pressure of 10 kPa to the
saturated liquid state. Show the cycle on a T-s diagram with respect to saturation lines, and
determine (a) the quality of the steam at the turbine exit, (b) the thermal efficiency of the cycle,
and (c) the mass flow rate of the steam.

Q.5:
A commercial refrigerant is used as the working fluid to keep the refrigerated space cool by
rejecting its waste heat to cooling water. Cooling water enters the condenser at 18 C (hw,in = 75.47
kJ/kg) at a rate of 0.25 kg/s and leaves at 26 C (hw,out = 108.94 kJ/kg). Please refer to the figure
given in Page 2 for the flow circuit. The refrigerant enters the condenser at 1.2 MPa and 65 C (h
= 295.18 kJ/kg) and leaves at 42 C (h = 111.25 kJ/kg). The inlet state of the compressor is 60 kPa
and -34 C (h = 230.04 kJ/kg), and the compressor is estimated to gain a net heat of 450 W from
the surroundings. Draw the components and number the processes taking place across them as 1,
2 etc. Mark corresponding states in T-S diagram. Determine (a) the quality of the refrigerant at the

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evaporator inlet (take hf at evaporator pressure as 3.837 kJ/kg and hg as 227.80 kJ/kg), (b) the
refrigeration load, and (c) the COP of the refrigerator.

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