Tutorial 9 (chp 9)

1. An ideal diesel engine has a compression ratio of 20 and uses air as the working fluid.
The state of air at the beginning of the compression process is 90 kPa and 20°C. If the
maximum temperature in the cycle is not to exceed 2200 K, determine
(a) cut off ratio and the thermal efficiency
(b) produced work and the mean effective pressure.
Assume constant specific heats for air at room temperature. 300K.
(Ans: 2.3, 64%, 784 kJ/kg, 884 kPa)
2. Refrigerant-134a is used as the working fluid in a simple ideal Rankine cycle which
operates the boiler at 2000 kPa, while the condenser is operated at 24C (in and out).
The refrigerant enters the pump as a saturated liquid. Note that, the refrigerant at the
exit turbine has a quality of 93 percent. Determine the turbine inlet temperature and
the cycle thermal efficiency. (refer to standard diagram of ideal rankine cycle).
(Ans: 67.5, 10.7)
3. A refrigerator uses refrigerant-134a as the working fluid and operates on the ideal
vapor-compression refrigeration cycle except for the compression process. The
refrigerant enters the evaporator at 100 kPa with a quality of 35 percent and leaves the
compressor at 70C. If the compressor consumes 450 W of power, determine (a) the
mass flow rate of the refrigerant, (b) the refrigeration load and COP of the
refrigerator.

4. An ideal vapor-compression refrigeration cycle that uses refrigerant-134a as its

working fluid maintains a condenser at 800 kPa and the evaporator at -12C. The
refrigerant enters the compressor as a saturated vapor at the evaporator pressure, and
leaves the condenser as saturated liquid at the condenser pressure. Determine the
amount of power required to service a 150 kW cooling load and the system’s COP
(refer to standard diagram ideal vapor-compression Refrigeration cycle)
(Ans: 30.8 kW, 4.9)

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