Problem 1.

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1.6 A spherical tank of inside diameter 500 cm contains com-

pressed oxygen at 7 MPa and 25°C. What is the mass of the
oxygen?

Given: Data on oxygen tank.

Find: Mass of oxygen.

Solution: Compute tank volume, and then use oxygen density (Table A.6) to find the mass.

The given or available D = 500 cm p = 7 MPa T = (25 + 273) ⋅ k T = 298 K

data is:

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R O2 = 259.8 (Table A.6)
kg ⋅ K

For oxygen the critical temperature and pressure are: Tc = 155 ⋅ K p c = 5 MPa (data from NIST WebBook)

T p
so the reduced temperature and pressure are: TR = = 1.925 p R = = 1.379
Tc pc

Using a compressibility factor chart: Z = 0.948 Since this number is close to 1, we can assume ideal gas behavior.

M
Therefore, the governing equation is the ideal gas equation p = ρ ⋅ R O2 ⋅ T and ρ=
V

π ⋅ D3 π
where V is the tank volume V= V= × (5 m)3 V = 65.4 m 3
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p⋅V N 1 kg ⋅ K 1 1
Hence M = V ⋅ρ = M = 7 × 106 2
× 65.4 m3 × ⋅ × ⋅
R O2 ⋅ T m 259.8 N ⋅ m 298 K

M = 5913 kg