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APPLICATION OF THERMODYANAMOICS
1. A heat engine is extracting heat from a lake water at 120C at 57 J per cycle and rejects to the
surroundings at 20C. If it executes 18 cycles per sec, the output of the engine is
a) 66 W b) 56 W c) 46 W d) 36W
2. A closed tank containing 30 kg gas is stirred by a paddle wheel till its temperature rises
by 3000C. If the heat transfer from tank to the surroundings is 3000 kJ. The work done
on the system is
(take CV = 0.7 kJ/kg K)
a) 6300 kJ b) 9300 kJ c) 3300 kJ d) zero
5. A refrigerator is operating between -300C and 320C. Its C.O.P is 75% of ideal C.O.P..
The power required to produce a refrigerating effect of 5 ton R is
a) 1.7 ton R b) 2.9 ton R c) 3.9 ton R d) 4 ton R
11. A system of 100 kg mass undergoes a process in which its specific entropy increases from
0.3 kJ/kgk to 0.4 kJ/kgk. at the same time the entropy of surroundings decreases from 80
kJ/k to 75 kJ/k. Then the process is
a) Reversible and Isothermal b) Irreversible
c) Reversible d) Impossible
12. For same maximum pressure and heat input the most efficient cycle is
a) Otto cycle b) Brayton cycle c) Diesel cycle d) Dual cycle
13. The air is compressed by an air compressor causing an enthalpy rise of 100 kJ/kg and the loss
of heat is 40 kJ/kg from air to the surroundings. The power required to run the
compressor for a mass flow of 0.5 kg/s is
a) 30 KW b) 50 KW c) 70 KW d) 90 KW
17. At the tip of a centrifugal impeller blade velocity is 200 m/s while the uniform axial
velocity at the inlet is 150 m/s. If the sonic velocity is 300 m/s the inlet mach number of
the flow will be
a) 0.5 b) 0.66 c) 0.83 d) 0.87
18. What will be the shape of a velocity triangle at exit of a radial bladed centrifugal
compressor taking into account the slip
a) right angled b) isosceles
c) all angles less than 900 d) one angle greater than 900
20. If the entropy change of universe is 0.666 kJ/K the entropy of change of the system is
a) -0.932 kJ/k b) 0.2 kJ/k c) 0.932 kJ/k d) -0.399 kJ/k
A refrigerator working on reversed Carnot cycle takes 2 kJ of heat from the system while
working between the limits 300 K and 200 K.
25. If the heat exchanger has 2-shells and 300 tubes, its effectiveness would be
a) 0.458 b) 0.433 c) 0.945 d) cannot be found