EME 2315: Thermodynamics

Tutorial #2 – 1st Law of Thermodynamics on Closed/Non-Flow Systems with Phase Transitions

Q12 + W12 = (U2 – U1)

NOTE - Bring a Calculator and a copy of the Thermodynamic/Steam Tables to class

Questions:
1. Define: a) Saturation Temperature b) Saturation Pressure c) Saturation Volume

2. A closed rigid container has 3kg of saturated steam at a pressure of 5 MPa and a temperature of 263.9 °C.

a) If the steam has a quality of 60%, what is the internal energy present in this mass of steam?

A process occurs on the system described above such that it changes state to a final pressure of 0.3 MPa and

temperature of 300 ºC.

b) What is the steam quality after the process?

c) What is the heat transfer for the process above?

3. Heat is added to a non-flow system containing 1.5 kg of steam so that it changes from State 1 (233.8 ºC, 3.0

MPa) with x = 0.3 to State 2 (350.0 ºC, 3.0 MPa).

a) What is the steam quality after the process?

b) What is the heat transfer for the process above?

4. An engineer claims that an adiabatic non-flow process delivers 300 kJ of work to the surroundings after the

working fluid (2.5 kg of steam) goes from State 1 (373.7 °C, 22 MPa) with x = 0.7 to State 2 (318.0 °C, 11

MPa) with x = 0.4.

a) Is the engineer’s claim true?

b) If the engineer’s claim is NOT true, how much work can the process really produce transitioning from

State 1 to State 2 as described above?

5. A closed polytropic expansion process with 2 kg of steam as the working fluid occurs from an initial state 1

(6 bar, 80% dryness) to a final state 2 (0.12 bar) . Given that the expansion follows the law pv1.2 = constant.

Calculate the work and heat transfer during the process.