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PPE - PROBLEM SET # 2

INSTRUCTION: Encircle the letter that corresponds to the correct answer of your choice.
MULTIPLE CHOICE:

1. A closed rigid container has a volume of 1 m3 and holds air at 344.8 kpa and 273oK. Heat is added until the
temperature is 600oK. Determine change of internal energy
A. 758.80 KJ B. 1034.00 KJ C. 1230.35 KJ D. 1330.35 KJ

2. A perfect gas has a value of R = 58.8 ft-lb/lb-R and k = 1.26. If 20 Btu are added to 5 lb of this gas at constant
volume when the initial temperature is 90oF, find the change in entropy
A. 0.1350 Btu/oR B. 0.2350 Btu/oR
C. 0.0350 Btu/oR D. 0.3350 Btu/oR

3. While the pressure remains constant at 689.5 kpa the volume of a system of air changes from 0.567 m3 to 0.283
m3. Determine the heat added/rejected.
A. 682.29 KJ B. 782.29 KJ C. 882.29 KJ D. 982.29 KJ

4. A piston-cylinder containing air receives heat at a constant temperature of 500oK and an initial pressure of 200
kpa. The initial volume is 0.01 m3 and the final volume is 0.07 m3. Determine the work.
A. -3.89 KJ B. -4.89 KJ C. -5.89 KJ D. -5.89 KJ

5. A rigid tank contains a perfect gas with R = 2.08 KJ/kgoK and k = 1.67. Calculate the final temperature in oC if it
initially at 30oC and 15 KJ/kg of heat is added.
A. 34.83 B. 36.54 C. 32.72 D. 38.43

6. Air is heated from 27oC to 327oC. How much does the specific internal energy of the air changed as a result of
this heating?
A. 301.5 KJ/kg decrease B. 301.5 increase
C. 215.4 decrease D. 215.4 increase

7. Air at 1 Mpa, 27oC is contained in a piston-cylinder device that is arranged to maintain a constant pressure. How
much heat in KJ/kg is required to raise the temperature of this air to 527oC?
A. 180 B. 370 C. 500 D. 1040

8. A piston-cylinder device contains 1 kg hydrogen gas. Heat is transferred to the hydrogen as its temperature
increases by 10oC. What is the boundary work done during this process?
A. 143 KJ B. 102 KJ C. 80 KJ D. 41 KJ

9. A 0.5 kg steel (c = 0.5 KJ/kgoK) rivet cools from 800oK to 300oK upon being installed in a riveted structure. The
entropy change in KJ/oK of this rivet is:
A. -0.631 B. -0.245 C. 0.245 D. 0.631

10. A 1750 kg car is raised to a height of 1.8 m by hydraulic hoist. The hydraulic pump has a constant pressure of
800 kPa on its piston. How much volume in m3 should the pump displace to deliver the required work for lifting
the car?
A. 0.0386 B. 0.0581 C. 0.0213 D. 0.0472

11. A fresh poured concrete hardens the chemical transformation release energy at a rate of 2 W/kg. Assume the
center of a poured layer does not have any heat loss and that it has as average heat capacity of 0.9 KJ/kgoK,
find the temperature rise in oC during one hour of the hardening (curing) process.
A. 7 B. 6 C. 8 D. 9

12. Air at a pressure of 100 kpa has a volume of 0.32 m3. The air is compressed in a reversible adiabatic manner
until the temperature is 190OC. The reversible work is –63 KJ/kg. Determine the initial temperature.
A. 98.23oC B. 102.19oC C. 123.45oC D. 143.45oC

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13. Three cubic feet of oxygen are compressed in a piston-cylinder in reversible adiabatic process from a
temperature of 300oK and a pressure of 102 kpa until the final volume is one tenth the initial volume. Determine
final temperature
A. 753.56oK B. 853.56oK C. 953.56oK D. 1,053.56oK

14. In a reversible adiabatic manner, 17.6 m3/min of air are compressed from 277oK and 101 kpa to 700 kpa.
Determine the change of enthalpy
A. 56.24 kw B. 66.24 kw C. 76.24 kw D. 86.24 kw

15. Air contained in a piston-cylinder and is compressed in a reversible adiabatic manner from a temperature of
300oK and a pressure of 120 kpa to a final pressure of 480 kpa. Determine final temperature.
A. 345.79oC B. 445.79oC C. 545.79oC D. 645.79oC

16. Air contained in a piston-cylinder and is compressed in a reversible adiabatic manner from a temperature of
300oK and a pressure of 120 kpa to a final pressure of 480 kpa. Determine work per kilogram.
A. -94.61 KJ/kg B. -124.61 KJ/kg C. -104.61 KJ/kg D. -304.61 KJ/kg

17. One kilogram per second of air initially at 101 kpa and 300oK is compressed polytropically according to the
process PV11.3 = C. Calculate the power necessary to compress the air to 1380 kpa.
A. 37.72 kw B. 137.72 kw C. 237.72 kw D. 337.72 kw

18. Air is compressed polytropically in a cylinder according to PV2 = C. The work required is 180 KJ/kg. Determine
the change of internal energy.
A. 449.06 KJ/kg B. 179.62 KJ/kg C. 159.62 KJ/kg D. 169.62 KJ/kg

19. Air is expanded from 1 Mpa, 327oC to 200 kpa in a closed piston-cylinder device executing PV1.2 = constant
process. The work produced during this process in KJ/kg is:
A. 202.6 B. 263.4 C. 361.7 D. 422.8

20. An air compressor has an inlet air enthalpy of 35 Btu/lb and exit enthalpy of 70 Btu/lb. The mass flow of air is 3
lbs/s. If heat loss is 466.62 Btu/min, find the work input to the compressor.
A. 139.51 hp B. 149.51 hp C. 159.51 hp D. 169.51 hp

21. In an air standard Otto cycle, the clearance volume is 12% of the displacement volume. Find the compression
ratio and or thermal efficiency.
A. 0.52 B. 0.55 C. 0.53 D. 0.60

22. A Carnot cycle has a maximum temperature of 220oC and minimum temperature of 20oC. Find the cycle
efficiency.
A. 54.23% B. 58.35% C. 43.20% D. 40.57%

23. An engine has a bore of 15 cm and stroke of 48 cm. If the volumetric compression is 2200 cm3, find the engine
efficiency.
A. 46.2 B. 44.2 C. 45.4 D. 40.3

24. A Carnot engine requires 40 KJ/sec from the hot source. The engine produces 20 kw of power and the
temperature of the sink is 26oC. What is the temperature of the hot source?
A. 245.57oC B. 210.10oC C. 250.18oC D. 325.00oC

25. The maximum thermal efficiency possible for a power cycle operating between 1400oF and 280oF is:
A. 58% B. 58.73% C. 60.22% D. 57.40%

26. A heat engine is operated between temperature limits of 1380 oC and 230oC. Engine supplied with 14,142 KJ
per KWH. Find the Carnot cycle efficiency in percent.
A. 70.10 B. 65.05 C. 67.56 D. 69.32

27. An air standard engine has a compression ratio of 15 and a cut-off ratio of 3. If the intake air pressure and
temperature are 100 kpa and 28oC, find the work in KJ per kg.
A. 2976 B. 2166 C. 2437 D. 992.50

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28. The thermal efficiency of a particular engine operating on an ideal cycle is 45%. Calculate the heat supplied per
1500 watt-hr of work developed in KJ.
A. 12,343 B. 12,000 C. 14,218 D. 11,108

29. An Otto cycle has an initial condition of 100 kpa and 30oC. The compression ratio is 10 and the maximum
temperature is 1400oC. Find the cycle mean effective pressure per kg of air.
A. 395.67 kpa B. 491.34 kpa C. 503.95 kpa D. 674.30 kpa

30. An Otto cycle has a heat added of 1000 Btu and work output of 550 Btu. Find the percent clearance.
A. 6.32% B. 8.97% C. 12.04% D. 15.72%

31. An Otto cycle has an efficiency of 54%. If heat added is 400 KJ, find the work done.
A. 216 KJ B. 218 KJ C. 220 KJ D. 222 KJ

32. An Otto cycle has an efficiency of 60%. If work is 700 KJ, find the heat rejected.
A. 466.67 KJ B. 476.67 KJ C. 486.67 KJ D. 496.67 KJ

33. An Otto cycle has an initial condition of 31oC and 100 Kpa. The compression ratio is 8 and the heat added during
the process is 1000 KJ/kg. Find the mean effective pressure.
A. 659.73 KJ/kg B. 689.73 KJ/kg C. 709.73 KJ/kg D. 739.73 KJ/kg

34. The compression ratio of Otto cycle is 10. If maximum temperature of the cycle is 1200oC, find the temperature
after expansion.
A. 30.5.41oC B. 307.41oC C. 311.41oC D. 313.41oC

35. An Ocean –Thermal Energy Conversion power plant generates 10,000 KW using a warm surface water inlet
temperature of 26oC and a cold deep-water temperature of 15oC. On the basis of a 3oC drop in the temperature
of the warm water and a 3oC rise in the temperature of the cold water due to removal and addition of heat,
calculate the power required in KW to pump the cold-deep water to the surface and through the system heat
exchanger if the required pumping pressure increase is 7kPa. Assume a Carnot cycle efficiency and density of
cold water to be 1000 kg/m3.
A. 108 B. 120 C. 146 D. 160

36. An elastic sphere containing gas at 120 kPa has a diameter of 1.0 m. Heating the sphere causes it to expand to
a diameter of 1.2 m. During the process the pressure is proportional to the sphere diameter. Calculate the work
done by the gas in KJ.
A. 41.8 B. 50.6 C. 45.6 D. 35.4

37. Air is used in a Carnot engine where the volumes at the beginning of the constant temperature heat addition and
the constant-temperature heat rejection are 0.356 m3 and 5.573 m3 respectively. Calculate the thermal
efficiency.
A. 0.754 B. 0.782 C. 0.713 D. 0.667

38. An air-standard Otto cycle has a compression ratio of 8. At the beginning of compression, the pressure and
temperature of air are 100 kPa and 25 oC respectively. The heat added is 1500 KJ/kg. Calculate the mean
effective pressure in kPa.
A. 1230 B. 1132 C. 1354 D. 1068

39. An inventor presented the following test results of the engine he designed: power developed, 35 KW; fuel
consumption, 3.1 kg/hr; fuel heating value, 49,540 KJ/kg; operating temperature limits, 28oC and 1200oC.
A. his claim is valid B. his claim is not valid
C. inconclusive D. none of the above

40. Two Carnot engines A and B operate in series between a high-temperature reservoir at 1200oK and low-
temperature reservoir at 450oK. Engine A rejects heat to engine B, which in turn rejects heat to the low-
temperature reservoir. The heat received by engine A is 600 KJ. The two engines have equal thermal
efficiencies. Calculate the work of engine B in KJ.
A. 300 B. 168.5 C. 254.7 D. 140.6

41. The thermodynamic efficiency of a heat engine that rejects heat at a rate of 20 MW when heat is supplied to it at
a rate of 60 MW is:
A. 33.3% B. 50% C. 66.7% D. 75%

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42. A Carnot engine operates using a 527oC energy reservoir and a 27oC energy reservoir. The thermodynamic
efficiency of this engine is:
A. 50% B. 62.5% C. 73.6% D. 103%

ANSWER KEY:

1. B 10. A 19. A 28. B 37. D

2. C 11. C 20. C 29. C 38. B
3. A 12. B 21. D 30. D 39. B
4. A 13. A 22. D 31. A 40. D
5. A 14. C 23. A 32. A 41. C
6. D 15. B 24. D 33. D 42. B
7. C 16. C 25. C 34. D
8. D 17. C 26. D 35. C
9. B 18. A 27. D 36. B

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