Basic Thermodynamics - Compressed

Third Semester B.E.
Degree Examination, May/June 2010

/ Basic Thermodynamics·
Note: 1. Answer any FIVEfull questions, selecting

at least TWO questions from each part.
2. Use of thermodynamics data handbook is permitted.
1 a. What are intensive, extensive and specific extensive properties? Give examples of each.
(06 Marks)
b. What is a quasi static process? What is its characteristic feature? (04 Marks)
c. A thermometer is calibrated with ice and steam points as fixed points referred to as oOe and
1000e respectively. The equation used to establish the scale is t = alogex + b
i) Determine the constants 'a' and 'b' in terms of ice point (XI) and stam point (xs).
10ge(~J
ii) Show that tOe = 100 XI (08 Marks)
[Og,(:: J
d. Define thermodynamic equilibrium. (02 Marks)
2 a. Does heat transfer inevitably cause a temperature rise? What is the other cause for rise in
temperatUre? (05 Marks)
b. Defme thermodynamic work. Briefly explain, what is displacement work. (07 Marks)
c. A mass of gas is compressed in a quasistatic process from 80 Kpa; 0.1 m3 to 0.4 MPa,
0.03 m3. Assuming that the pressure and volume are related by PVn = constant, find the
work interaction during the process. Is it a work producing system or work absorbing
system? (08 Marks)
3 a. State and explain the first law of thermodynamics for a closed system undergoing a cycle.
What is PMM1? (07 Marks)
b. During one cycle, the working fluid in an engine engages in two work interactions: 15 kJ to
the fluid and 44 kJ from the fluid. There are three heat interactions, two of which are known:
75 kJ to the fluid and 40 kJ from the fluid. Evaluate the magnitude and direction of the third
heat transfer. (04 Marks)
c. At the inlet to a certain nozzle, the enthalpy of the fluid passing is 3000 kJ/kg and the
velocity is 60 mls. At the discharge end, the enthalpy is 2762 kJ . The nozzle is horizontal
kg
and there is negligible heat loss from it.
i) Find the velocity at the exit from the nozzle.
ii) If the inlet area is 0.1 m2 and specific volume at inlet is 0.187 m3/kg, find the mass
flow rate.
iii) If the specific volume at the nozzle exit is 0.498 m3/kg, find the exit area of the nozzle.
(09 Marks)
4 a. Establish the equivalence of Kelvin - Planck and Clausius statements of second law of
thermodynamics. (08 Marks)
b. A source 'X' can supply energy at a rate of 11000 kJ/minute at 320°C. A second source 'Y'
can supply energy at a rate of 110000 kJ/minute at 60°C. Which source 'X' or 'Y' would
you choose, to supply energy to an ideal reversible engine, that is to produce a large amount
of power, if the temperature of surroundings is 4°C? (08 Marks)
c. What do you understand by a reversible and an irreversible process? What are the causes of
irreversibility of a process? (04 Marks)
5 a. Define entropy. Show that entropy is a property of the system. (08 Marks)
b. Define the terms, available and unavailable energy. (02 Marks)
c. One kg of ice at _5°C is exposed to the atmosphere, which is at 20°C. The ice melts and
comes into thermal equilibrium with the atmosphere. Determine the entropy increase of the
universe. Take Cp of ice = 2.093~ and latent of fusion of ice = 334 kJ/kg. (10 Marks)
kgK
6 a. 25 kg of water at 95°C is mixed with 35 kg of water at 35°C, the pressure being taken as
constant and temperature of the surroundings being 15°C. Calculate decrease in available
energy of the system. (10 Marks)
b. Define the terms: i) Useful work; ii) Reversible work; iii) Irreversibility. (06 Marks)
c. Define first law efficiency and second law efficiency. How these efficiencies can be
improved? (04 Marks)
7 a. What do you understand by the term "degree of superheat" of steam? Show that dryness
fraction of a sample of steam measured using combined separating and throttling calorimeter
is given by X = Xl X2, where,
X = Dryness fraction of steam in steam main
Xl = Dryness fraction of steam as measured by using separating calorimeter.
X2 = Dryness fraction of steam as measured using throttling calorimeter. (10 Marks)
b. A pressure cooker contains 1.5 kg of steam at 5 bar and 0.9 dryness when the gas was
switched off. Determine the quantity of heat rejected by the pressure cooker when the
pressure in the cooker falls to 1 bar. (10 Marks)
8 a. Under what conditions the behaviour of a real gas approaches closely that of an ideal gas?
Write van der waal's equation for a real gas. (06 Marks)
b. A gas at a pressure of 1.4 MN/m2 and 360°C is expanded adiabatically to a pressure of
100 k~ . The gas is then heated at constant volume until it attains 360°C when its pressure
m
is found to be 220 kN/m2. Finally it is compressed isothermally to the original pressure of
1.4 ~. Sketch the process on P-V and T-S diagrams. For 0.23 kg of gas, evaluate the
m
following: work transfer, heat transfer, change in internal energy and change in entropy
during each process. Assume the following data for the gas:
Cp = 1.005 kJ/kg K
Cv = 0.718 kJ/kg K
R = 0.287 kJ/kg K
y = 1.4 (14 Marks)

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