ME 63 FINAL EXAMS

March 28, 2011

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Write your name, section, teachers name, and page numbers on all sheets.
2. Enclose all numerical answers in a box and write ANS beside each one.
3. Do not detach any of your answer sheets.
4. Start each problem on a new answer sheet and number the problems.
5. Use pens with blue or black ink only. No pencils allowed.
6. Anything written at the back of your answer sheets will be disregarded.
7. Failure to comply with the above instructions has a corresponding score deduction

PROBLEM 1

A refrigerator uses R-134a as working fluid. The mass flow rate through each component is 0.1
kg/s, and the power input to the compressor is 5.0 kW. The following data are known:

P1 = 100 kPa T1 = -20C P2 = 800 kPa

T2 = 50C T3 = 30C x3 = 0.0 T4 = -25C

a. Give the 1st law equation for all the components (remove terms with no value) (30 pts)
b. Determine the quality at the evaporator inlet. (20 pts)
c. Determine the rate of heat transfer to the evaporator. (20 pts)
d. Determine the rate of heat transfer from the compressor. (20 pts)
e. Briefly describe what each component does. (10 pts)

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PROBLEM 2

An OTEC (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion) Power plant is operating in the Pacific region. The
power plant extracts heat from the surface water at 20 C and rejects heat at 0 C several
meters below the surface to produce a certain amount of work.
a. If it were operating under a Carnot cycle, what would be its thermal efficiency?
(80 pts)
b. The operators are reporting a heat input of 30 MJ. What is the maximum work
output they can get out of it? (10 pts)
c. The operators are reporting a heat input of 30 MJ while producing a work
output of 10 MJ. Are they telling the truth? (5 pts)
d. Why/Why not? (3 pts)
e. Which law/s of thermodynamics is/are they violating? (0th, 1st, 2nd, 3rd) (2 pts)

PROBLEM 3

A piston cylinder setup contains 1 kg of H20 at 300 kPa and 300 C. The substance now
undergoes a reversible adiabatic expansion until it becomes saturated liquid.
a. Show the energy balance and entropy balance equations cancelling out all zero
terms. (10 pts)
b. How much work is produced by the process? (10 pts)
c. How much heat is absorbed/rejected by the process? (40 pts)
d. How much entropy is generated in the process? (40 pts)

PROBLEM 4

Liquid water enters a pump at 15C, 100 kPa, and exits at a pressure of 5 MPa. If the isentropic
efficiency of the pump is 75%.

a. Solve for the isentropic work (30 pts)

b. Solve for actual work (25 pts)
c. Determine the enthalpy of the water at the pump exit. (25 pts)
d. We normally describe efficiency as output over input, or energy sought over energy
that costs. But in isentropic efficiencies, this is not the case? How do these isentropic
efficiency equations reflect the performance of the devices they represent? (20 pts)