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DAYANANDA SAGAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

(An Autonomous Institute Affiliated to VTU, Belagavi)
Shavige Malleshwara Hills, Kumaraswamy Layout, Bengaluru-560078

UG Makeup Examination, July /August 2021

Course: Engineering Thermodynamics Maximum marks: 100

Course Code: 19ME3DCETD Duration: 03 hours
Semester: III

Note: i). Question ONE (a to t) has to be answered from pages 5 to 7 only, also candidate
must write the answer along with the option.
ii). Question 1 to 4 is compulsory.
iii). Any missing data should be suitably assumed
Q. No. Marks
1a) The basis for measuring thermodynamic property of temperature is given by 01
i) Zeroth law of thermodynamics ii) first law of thermodynamics
iii) second law of thermodynamics iv) third law of thermodynamics.
b) In thermodynamics, the work done by the system is considered as _______ and the work 01
done on the system is considered as ______
i)Positive, Zero ii) Negative, Positive iii) Zero, Negative iv)Positive, Negative.
c) Which of the following quantities is not the property of the system 01
i) Pressure ii) temperature iii) specific volume iv) heat
d) If value of n is infinitely large in a polytropic process PV" = C, then the process is known as 01
constant i)Volume ii)pressure iii)temperature iv) enthalpy.
e) During throttling process 01
i) heat exchange does not take place ii) no work is done by expanding steam
iii) there is no change of internal energy of steam iv) all
f) If the efficiency of a Carnot engine is 40% and if it is used as heat pump its COP will be: 01
i) 1.5 ii) 2 iii) 2.5 iv) 3
g) If all the variables of a stream are independent of time it is said to be in 01
i) steady flow ii) unsteady flow iii) uniform flow iv) closed flow
h) A refrigerator rejects 240kJ of heat per minute to the environment, if the compressor 01
consumes 3kW of power. Its COP will b i) 0.25 ii) 0.5 iii) 1 iv) 1.5
i) PMM2 is the machine which violates ___________ 01
i)Kelvin-Planck statement ii) Clausius statement iii) both i. and ii. iv)none
j) A frictionless heat engine can be 100% efficient only if its exhaust temperature is 01
i) equal to its input temperature ii) 0°C iii) 0°K iv) 100°
k) In a Carnot cycle, heat is transferred at____ 01
(i)constant pressure ii) constant volume iii)constant temperature iv)constant enthalpy
l) “Any compound should have the same reduced volume at the same reduced pressure and 01
reduced temperature.” Is known as
(i) Law of corresponding states ii) Law of critical state iii) Law of reduced state iv) None
m) What is the dryness fraction (x) on saturated vapour line? 01
i) x = 0 ii) x = 1 iii) x = 0.9 iv) x = 0.5
n) The latent heat of vaporization at critical point is 01
i) less than zero ii) greater than zero iii) equal to zero iv) none
o) Which is a state of a substance from which a phase change occurs without a change of 01
pressure or temperature___i)pure state ii) phase state iii) saturation state iv) critical
state
p) The temperature of a substance at which the vapour pressure is equal to 760 mm Hg is 01
called as___ i)normal vapour point ii) normal boiling point iii)normal pressure point
iv)none
q) For an ideal gas, the compressibility factor is____ i) 0.5 ii) 1 iii) 1.5 iv) 2. 01

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r) In high pressure condition, the real gases conform more closely with 01
i) van der Waals equation ii) ideal gas equation iii) both i. and ii. iv) none
s) The summation of each of the partial pressure of the component in a system equals to the 01
total pressure. Is i) Dalton`s law ii) Boyle`s law iii) Charles`s Law iv) None
t) What is an ideal gas? i) which obeys the law pv = RT 01
ii) which obeys the law p = vR / T iii) which obeys the law pv = R / T iv) none

2 a) Define the following i) system ii) boundary iii)surroundings 06

b) Show that heat is path function as well as internal energy is point function 10

3 a) State the first law of thermodynamics as applied to a cycle and prove that for non- 08
flow process, it leads to the energy equation of the form Q1-2 –W1-2 = U2-U1 .
b) Air flows steadily at the rate of 0.5 kg/s through an air compressor entering at 7 m/s, 08
with a pressure of 100 k Pa and a specific volume of 0.95 m3/kg and leaving at 5m/s,
with a pressure of 700k Pa and specific volume of 0.19 m 3/kg. The internal energy of
the air leaving of 90 kJ/kg greater than that of air entering. Cooling water in the
compressor jackets absorbs heat from the air at a rate of 58 kW. Determine the rate
of shaft work input to the air in kW and find the ratio of input to output pipe
diameters.

4 a) A reversible heat engine operates between two reservoirs at temperatures 700°C 08

and 50 C. The engine drives a reversible refrigerator which operates between
reservoirs at temperatures of 50°C and – 25°C. The heat transfer to the engine is
2500 kJ and the net work output of the combined engine refrigerator plant is 400 kJ.
(i) Determine the heat transfer to the refrigerant and the net heat transfer to the
reservoir at 50°C ;(ii) Reconsider (iii) given that the efficiency of the heat engine and
the C.O.P. of the refrigerator are each 45 per cent of their maximum possible values
b) Two Carnot engines work in series between the source and sink temperatures of 550 08
K and 350 K. If both engines develop equal power determine the intermediate
temperature.

5 a) Define the following with suitable expressions on pure substance, i)Sensible heat, 08
ii)Latent heat, iii) Dryness fraction, iv) Enthalpy of Super-heated steam.
b) Define whether the following samples of steam are wet, dry or superheated. Justify 08
your answer. i) Pressure = 1MPa absolute, enthalpy= 2880 kJ/kg, ii) Pressure = 500
kPa absolute, Volume = 0.35m3/kg iii) temperature = 200oC, pressure = 1.2 MPa
iv) temperature =100oC, entropy =6.88 kJ/kg K
OR
6 a) State and prove Clausius inequality? What is the significance of Clausius inequality? 08
b) A lump of steel of mass 8kg at 1000K is dropped in 80kg of oil at 300K.Findout 08
calculations for the entropy change of steel, the oil and the universe. Take specific
heats of steel and oil as 0.4kJ/kg K and 3.5 kJ/kg K respectively.

7 a) A vessel of 0.35 m3 capacity contains 0.4 kg of carbon monoxide (molecular weight = 08

28) and 1 kg of air at 20°C. Calculate :
(i) The partial pressure of each constituent, (ii) The total pressure in the vessel, and
The gravimetric analysis of air is to be taken as 23.3% oxygen (molecular weight =
32) and 76.7% nitrogen (molecular weight = 28).
b) A vessel contains at 1 bar and 20°C a mixture of 1 mole of CO2 and 4 moles of air. 08
Calculate for the mixture : (i) The masses of CO2, O2 and N2, and the total mass ; (ii)
The percentage carbon content by mass ; (iii) The apparent molecular weight and
the gas constant for the mixture ; (iv) The specific volume of the mixture. The
volumetric analysis of air can be taken as 21% oxygen and 79% nitrogen.
OR
8 a) Obtain expressions for the constants ‘a’ ,’b’, and ‘R’ in terms of the critical properties 08
for a vander wall gas.
b) A vessel of 0.35 m3 capacity contains 0.4 kg of carbon monoxide (molecular weight = 08

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28) and 1 kg of air at 20°C. Calculate :(i) The partial pressure of each constituent,
(ii) The total pressure in the vessel, and The gravimetric analysis of air is to be taken
as 23.3% oxygen (molecular weight = 32) and 76.7% nitrogen (molecular weight =
28).

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