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    MCL701 Advanced Thermodynamics

    Problem Sheet 3

    1. One technique for operating a steam turbine in part-load power output is to throttle the
    steam to a lower pressure before it enters the turbine, as shown in figure P1. The steamline
    conditions are 2 MPa, 400o C, and the turbine exhaust pressure is fixed at 10 kPa. Assuming
    the expansion inside the turbine is reversible and adiabatic, determine the specific turbine
    work for no throttling and the specific turbine work (part-load) if it is throttled to 500 kPa.
    Show both processes in a T–s diagram.

    Figure P1

    2. Consider a steam turbine with inlet 2 MPa, 350 o C and an exhaust flow as saturated vapor,
    100 kPa. There is a heat loss of 6 kJ/kg to the ambient. Is the turbine possible?

    3. A geothermal supply of hot water at 500 kPa, 150 o C is fed to an insulated flash evaporator
    at the rate of 1.5 kg/s. A stream of saturated liquid at 200 kPa is drained from the bottom of
    the chamber, as shown in figure P3, and a stream of saturated vapor at 200 kPa is drawn
    from the top and fed to a turbine. Find the rate of entropy generation in the flash evaporator.

    Figure P3 Figure P4

    4. A condenser in a power plant receives 5 kg/s steam at 15 kPa, quality 90% and rejects the
    heat to cooling water with an average temperature of 17o C. Find the power given to the
    cooling water in this constant-pressure process, shown in figure P4, and the total rate of
    entropy generation when the condenser exit is saturated liquid.

    5. A cook filled a pressure cooker with 3 kg water at 20o C and a small amount of air and
    forgot about it. The pressure cooker has a vent valve, so if P > 200 kPa, steam escapes to
    maintain a pressure of 200 kPa. How much entropy was generated in the throttling of the
    steam through the vent to 100 kPa when half of the original mass escaped?
    6. A balloon is filled with air from a line at 200 kPa, 300 K to a final state of 110 kPa, 300 K
    with a mass of 0.1 kg air. Assume the pressure is proportional to the balloon volume as P =
    100 kPa + CV . Find the heat transfer to/from the ambient at 300 K and the total entropy
    generation.

    7. An air conditioner on a hot summer day removes 8 kW of energy from a house at 21 o C and
    pushes energy to the outside, which is at 31 o C. The house has a 15000-kg mass with an
    average specific heat of 0.95 kJ/kgK. In order to do this, the cold side of the air conditioner
    is at 5o C and the hot side is at 40o C. The air conditioner (refrigerator) has a COP that is
    60% that of a corresponding Carnot refrigerator. Find the actual air conditioner COP, the
    power required to run the air conditioner, the rate of exergy destruction inside the air
    conditioner, and the total rate of exergy destruction due to the air conditioner and the house.

    8. A farmer runs a heat pump using 2 kW of power input. It keeps a chicken hatchery at a
    constant 30o C, while the room loses 10 kW to the colder outside ambient at 10 o C. Find the
    COP of the heat pump, the rate of exergy destruction in the heat pump and its heat
    exchangers, and the rate of exergy destruction in the heat loss process.

    9. A heat exchanger increases the exergy of 3 kg/s water by 1650 kJ/kg using 10 kg/s air
    coming in at 1400 K and leaving with 600 kJ/kg less exergy. What are the irreversibility and
    the second-law efficiency?

    10. A steam turbine receives 5 kg/s steam at 400o C, 10 MPa. One flow of 0.8 kg/s is extracted
    at 3 MPa as saturated vapor, and the remainder runs out at 1500 kPa with a quality of 0.975.
    Find the second-law efficiency of the turbine.

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