Mechanical Engineering 300 – Engineering Thermodynamics I

 

Sections 1 and 3                                                      Spring Semester 2008

 

Homework 5                                                          Due Monday, March 24, 2008 

 

 

1. Steam at 5 MPa and 500 ºC enters a nozzle steadily with a velocity of 80 m/s, and it leaves at 2 MPa and 400 ºC.  The inlet area of the nozzle is 50 cm2, and heat is being lost at a rate of 90 kJ/s.  Determine (a) the mass flow rate of the steam, (b) the exit velocity of the steam, and (c) the exit area of the nozzle.  (C&B)

T1 = 500 ºC, T2 = 400 ºC, Q2-dot = 90 kJ s-1x2-dot = 589.9 m s-1 and A2 = 15 cm2

 

2. Air at 600 kPa and 127 ºC enters an adiabatic diffuser steadily at a rate of 6000 kg/h and leaves at 100 kPa.  The velocity of the air stream is decreased from 230 to 30 m/s as it passes through the diffuser.  Find (a) the exit temperature of the air and (b) the exit area of the diffuser.  (C&B)    T2 = 427 K and A2 = 6.8 x 10-2 m2

 

3. Refrigerant-134a enters a diffuser steadily as saturated vapor at 700 kPa with a velocity of 140 m/s, and it leaves at 800 kPa and 40 ºC.  The refrigerant is gaining heat at a rate of 3 kJ/s as it passes through the diffuser.  If the exit area is 80 percent greater than the inlet area, determine (a) the exit velocity and (b) the mass flow rate of the refrigerant.  (C&B)     v2 = 71.7 m/s, m-dot = 0.655 kg/s                                

 

4. Air enters a compressor of a gas-turbine plant at ambient conditions of 100 kPa and 25 ºC with a low velocity and exits at 1 MPa and 347 ºC with a velocity of 90 m/s.  The compressor is cooled at a rate of 1500 kJ/min, and the power input to the compressor is 250 kW.  Determine the mass flow rate of air through the compressor.   (C&B) m-dot = 0.677 kg/sec

 

5. A well-insulated valve is used to throttle steam from 8 MPa and 500 ºC to 6 MPa.  Determine the final temperature of the steam.  (C&B)    490.1 ºC            

 

6. A stream of refrigerant-134a at 1 MPa and 12 ºC is mixed with another stream at 1 MPa and 60 C.  If the mass flow rate of the cold stream is twice that of the hot one, determine the temperature and the quality of the exit stream.     (C&B)                                    T = 39.39 ºC and x = 0.221     

 

7. A long roll of 2-m-wide and 0.5-cm-thick 1-Mn manganese steel plate (ρ = 7854 kg/m3 and Cp = 0.434 kJ/kg· ºC) coming off a furnace at 820 ºC is to be quenched in an oil bath at 45 ºC to a temperature of 51.1 ºC.  If the metal sheet is moving at a steady velocity of 10 m/min, determine the required rate of heat removal from the oil to keep its temperature constant at 45 ºC.     (C&B)   Q-dot = 4368 kW                           

 

8. Steam enters a long, horizontal pipe with an inlet diameter of D1 = 12 cm at 1 MPa and 250 ºC with a velocity of 2 m/s.  Further downstream, the conditions are 800 kPa and 200 ºC, and the diameter is D2 = 10 cm.  Determine (a) the mass flow rate of the steam and (b) the rate of heat transfer.  (C&B)    m-dot = 0.0972 kg/s and Q-dot = 10.04 kJ/s                

 

9. An insulated, vertical piston-cylinder device initially contains 10 kg of water, 8 kg of which is in the vapor phase.  The mass of the piston is such that it maintains a constant pressure of 300 kPa inside the cylinder.  Now steam at 0.5 MPa and 350 ºC is allowed to enter the cylinder from a supply line until all the liquid in the cylinder has vaporized.  Determine (a) the final temperature in the cylinder and (b) the mass of the steam that has entered.  (C&B)               Tf = 133.6 ºC and m = 9.78 kg                     

 

10. Two rigid tanks are connected by a valve. Tank A contains 0.2 m3 of water at 400 kPa and 80 percent quality. Tank B contains 0.5 m3 of water at 200 kPa and 250 ºC.  The valve is now opened, and the two tanks eventually come to the same state. Determine the pressure and the amount of heat transfer when the system reaches thermal equilibrium with the surroundings at 25 ºC.   (C&B)  Qout = 2171 kJ and P = 3.169 kPa

 

"(C&A)" indicates a problem taken from Y. A. çengel and M. A. Boles, "Thermodynamics – An Engineering Approach," fifth edition.