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ASSIGNMENT - DAE 4001 THERMAL ENGINEERING

Module 1
Basic Concepts, Zeroth law of Thermodynamics and its significance, Concept of heat and work.
Properties of steam, Properties of Ideal gas.
Q1.

An office worker claims that a cup of cold coffee on his table warmed up to 80C by
picking up energy from the surrounding air, which is at 25C. Is there any truth to his
claim? Does this process violate any thermodynamic laws?

Q2.

A can of soft drink at room temperature is put into the refrigerator so that it will cool.
Would you model the can of soft drink as a closed system or as an open system? Explain.

Q3.

Consider two closed systems A and B. System A contains 3000 kJ of thermal energy
at 20C, whereas system B contains 200 kJ of thermal energy at 50C. Now the systems
are brought into contact with each other. Determine the direction of any heat transfer
between the two systems.

Q4.

A pressure gage connected to a tank reads 500 kPa at a location where the atmospheric
pressure is 94 kPa. Determine the absolute pressure in the tank.

Q5.

A room is heated by an iron that is left plugged in.Is this a heat or work interaction? Take
the entire room, including the iron, as the system.

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Module 2 A
First law of Thermodynamics, first law of thermodynamics for non flow and steady flow
processes.
Q1.

A gas in a pistoncylinder device is compressed, and as a result its temperature rises. Is

this a heat or work interaction?

Q2.

On a hot summer day, a student turns his fan on when he leaves his room in the morning.
When he returns in the evening, will the room be warmer or cooler than the neighboring
rooms? Why? Assume all the doors and windows are kept closed.

Q3.

Water is being heated in a closed pan on top of a range while being stirred by a paddle
wheel. During the process, 30 kJ of heat is transferred to the water, and 5 kJ of heat is lost
to the surrounding air. The paddle-wheel work amounts to 500 N m. Determine the final
energy of the system if its initial energy is 10 kJ. Answer: 35.5 kJ

Q4.

A water pump that consumes 2 kW of electric power when operating is claimed to take in
water from a lake and pump it to a pool whose free surface is 30 m above the free surface
of the lake at a rate of 50 L/s. Determine if this claim is reasonable.

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Module 2 B
First law of Thermodynamics, first law of thermodynamics for non flow and steady flow
processes.
Q1.

A fan is to accelerate quiescent air to a velocity of 10m/s at a rate of 4 m 3/s. Determine

the minimum power that must be supplied to the fan. Take the density of air to be 1.18
kg/m3. Answer: 236 W

Q2.

The driving force for fluid flow is the pressure difference, and a pump operates by raising
the pressure of a fluid (by converting the mechanical shaft work to flow energy). A
gasoline pump is measured to consume 5.2 kW of electric power when operating. If the
pressure differential between the outlet and inlet of the pump is measured to be 5 kPa and
the changes in velocity and elevation are negligible, determine the maximum possible
volume flow rate of gasoline.

Q3.

A 2-kW electric resistance heater in a room is turned on and kept on for 30 min. The
amount of energy transferred to the room by the heater is Answer: 3600 kJ

Q4.

A 30-L electrical radiator containing heating oil is placed in a 50-m 3 room. Both the room
and the oil in the radiator are initially at 10C. The radiator with a rating of 1.8 kW is
now turned on. At the same time, heat is lost from the room at an average rate of 0.35
kJ/s. After some time, the average temperature is measured to be 20C for the air in the
room, and 50C for the oil in the radiator. Taking the density and the specific heat of the
oil to be 950 kg/m3 and 2.2 kJ/kgC, respectively, determine how long the heater is kept
on. Assume the room is well-sealed so that there are no air leaks.

Properties The gas constant of air is R = 0.287 kPa.m3/kg.K Also, cv = 0.718 kJ/kg.K for
air at room temperature. Oil properties are given to be = 950 kg/m3 and cp = 2.2
kJ/kg.C.

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Module 2 C
First law of Thermodynamics, first law of thermodynamics for non flow and steady flow
processes.
Q1.

A student living in a 4-m x 6-m x 6-m dormitory room turns on her 150-W fan before she
leaves the room on a summer day, hoping that the room will be cooler when she comes
back in the evening. Assuming all the doors and windows are tightly closed and
disregarding any heat transfer through the walls and the windows, determine the
temperature in the room when she comes back 10 h later. Use specific heat values at
room temperature, and assume the room to be at 100 kPa and 15C in the morning when
she leaves.
Properties The gas constant of air is R = 0.287 kPa.m3/kg.K. Also, CV = 0.718 kJ/kg.K
for air at room temperature.

Q2.

A diffuser is an adiabatic device that decreases the kinetic energy of the fluid by slowing
it down. What happens to this lost kinetic energy?

Q3.

What is flow energy? Do fluids at rest possess any flow energy?

Q4.

Is heat transfer to or from the fluid desirable as it flows through a nozzle? How will heat
transfer affect the fluid velocity at the nozzle exit?
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Module 3
Second law of Thermodynamics & Entropy : Concepts of heat engines, refrigerator and heat
pump. Entropy, Entropy change for various reversible processes.
Q1.

An experimentalist claims to have raised the temperature of a small amount of water

to 150C by transferring heat from high-pressure steam at 120C. Is this a reasonable
claim? Why? Assume no refrigerator or heat pump is used in the process.

Q2.

Consider the energy generated by a TV set. What is a suitable choice for a thermal energy
reservoir?

Q3.

A household refrigerator runs one-fourth of the time and removes heat from the food
compartment at an average rate of 800 kJ/h. If the COP of the refrigerator is 2.2,
determine
the power the refrigerator draws when running.

Q4.

A heat pump is used to maintain a house at a constant temperature of 23C. The house is
losing heat to the outside air through the walls and the windows at a rate of 60,000 kJ/h
while the energy generated within the house from people, lights, and appliances amounts
to 4000 kJ/h. For a COP of 2.5, determine the required power input to the heat pump.

Q5.

A system undergoes a process between two fixed states first in a reversible manner and
then in an irreversible manner. For which case is the entropy change greater? Why?
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