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ESE Online Test Series : 2015

Conventional Paper
ME : MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Test No. -10 | Thermodynamics
Date: 15-03-2015

Duration: 1

| Subjectwise Test

hrs.

Maximum Marks: 100

Read the following instructions carefully

1. Candidate should attempt any FOUR questions out of five. Each question carries 25 marks.
2. Marks carried by each subdivision of a question is indicated at the end of subdivision.
3. Answers must be written only in ENGLISH.
4. Assume suitable data, if necessary, and indicate the same clearly.
5. Neat sketches may be drawn, wherever required.
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Mechanical Engineering Thermodynamics

Q.1 (a) A spring loaded piston cylinder device contains 1 kg of carbon dioxide. This system is heated from
100 kPa and 25C to 1000 kPa and 300C. Determine the total heat transfer to and work produced
by this system as shown below. Assume CO2 as an ideal gas and take Cv = 0.657 kJ/kgK.

Spring

CO2

[7 marks]

(b) The properties of a certain fluid are related as follows:

u = 196 + 0.718 t
pv = 0.287(t + 273)
where u is the specific internal energy (kJ/kg), t is in C, p is pressure (kN/m2), and v is specific
volume (m3/kg).
A system composed of above fluid having mass 2 kg expands in a frictionless piston and cylinder
machine from an initial state of 1 MPa, 100C to a final temperature of 30C. If there is no heat
transfer, find the network for the process.
[10 marks]
(c) To a closed system 150 kJ of work is supplied. If the initial volume is 0.6 m3 and pressure of the
system changes as P = 8 4 V, where P is in bar and V is in m3, determine the final volume and
pressure of the system.
[8 marks]
Q.2 (a) 1 kg of steam at 8 bar, entropy 6.55 kJ/kgK is heated reversibly at constant pressure until the
temperature is 200C. Calculate the heat supplied, show the process on a T - S plane with its coordinate and show the area which represents the heat flow.
Take S f @8 bar = 2.0457 kJ/kgK ; S g @8 bar = 6.66 kJ/kgK ; hf @8 bar = 720.9 kJ/kg ;
hg @8 bar = 2767.4 kJ/kg ; h@(8bar, 200C) ;= 2839.3 kJ/kg.
[10 marks]
(b) In a water cooling tower air enters at a height of 1 m above the ground level and leaves at a height of
7 m. The inlet and outlet velocities are 20 m/s and 30 m/s respectively. Water enters at a height of 8 m
and leaves at a height of 0.8 m. The velocity of water at entry and exit are 3 m/s and 1 m/s respectively.
Water temperature are 80C and 50C at the entry and exit respectively. The cooling tower is well
insulated and a fan of 2.25 kW drives the air through the cooler. Find the amount of air per second
required for 1 kg/s of water flow. The values of CP of air and water are 1.005 and 4.187 kJ/kgK respectively.
Air temperature are 30C and 70C at the entry and exit respectively.
[15 marks]
Q.3 (a) An inventor claims to have developed a refrigerator that maintains the refrigerated space at 2C
while operating in a room where the temperature is 24C and that has a COP of 13.5. Is this claim
reasonable ?
[5 marks]

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(b) A heat engine operates between two reservoirs at 800C and 20C. One-half of the work output of the
heat engine is used to drive a Carnot heat pump that removes heat from the cold surroundings at 2C.
If the house is losing heat at a rate of 62000 kJ/h, determine the minimum rate of heat supply to the
heat engine required to keep the house at 22C.
[10 marks]
(c) Air initially occupying 1 m3 at 1.5 bar, 20C undergoes an internally reversible compression for which
PV n = constant to a final state where the pressure is 6 bar and the temperature is 120C. Determine
(i) the value of n.
(ii) the work and heat transfer and
(iii) the change in entropy [Take Cv = 0.718 kJ/kgK]
[10 marks]
Q.4 (a) (i) Show that for a van der waals gas
=

Rv 2 (v b)
RTv 3 2a(v b)2

kT =

v 2 (v b)2
RTv 3 2a(v b)2

Hence,
(ii) What is the value of kT / expressed in its simplest form ?
(iii) What do the above relations become when a = 0, b = 0 (ideal gas)?
[10 + 3 + 3 = 16 marks]
(b) Air enters a compressor in steady flow at 140 kPa, 17C and 70 m/s and leaves it at 350 kPa, 127C
and 110 m/s. The environment is at 100 kPa, 7C.
Calculate per kg of air :
(i) the actual amount of work required
(ii) the minimum work required
(iii) the irreversibility of the process
[9 marks]
Q.5 (a) A 1m3 tank containing air at 25C and 500 kPa is connected through a valve to another tank containing
5 kg of air at 35C and 200 kPa. Now the valve is opened, and the entire system is allowed to reach
thermal equilibrium with the surroundings, which is at 20C. Determine the volume of the second tank
and the final equilibrium pressure of air.
[10 marks]
(b) 1000 kg of steam at a pressure of 16 bar and 0.9 dry is generated by a boiler per hour. The steam
passes through a superheater via boiler stop valve where its temperature is raised to 380C. If the
temperature of feed water is 30C, determine :
(i) The total heat supplied to feed water per hour to produce wet steam
(ii) The total heat absorbed per hour in the superheater.
Take specific heat for superheated steam as 2.2 kJ/kgK.
Tsat @16 bar = 201.4C ; hf@16 bar = 858.6 kJ/kg ; hfg @16 bar = 1933.2 kJ/kg.
[8 marks]

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(c) A 0.3 m3 rigid vessel initially contains saturated liquid-vapor mixture of water at 150C. The water is
now heated until it reaches the critical state. Determine the mass of the liquid water and the volume
occupied by the liquid at the initial state.
Temp
TC

Sat. Pressure Specific volume (m /kg) Internal energy (kJ/kg)

vg
ug
vf
uf
P, kPa

145

415.68

0.001085

0.446

610.19

2554.4

150

476.16

0.001091

0.39248

631.66

2559.1

155

543.49

0.001096

0.34648

653.19

2563.5

373.95

22064

0.003106

0.003106

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