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This document provides 20 practice problems related to thermodynamics and properties of substances like water, refrigerants, gases and air. The problems cover a range of concepts including determining phase, sketching P-V and T-V diagrams, using steam tables to find specific properties, determining quality, enthalpy, internal energy, and using equations of state and compressibility charts to analyze the behavior of gases under different conditions of pressure and temperature.

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Tutorial Sheet 2

This document provides 20 practice problems related to thermodynamics and properties of substances like water, refrigerants, gases and air. The problems cover a range of concepts including determining phase, sketching P-V and T-V diagrams, using steam tables to find specific properties, determining quality, enthalpy, internal energy, and using equations of state and compressibility charts to analyze the behavior of gases under different conditions of pressure and temperature.

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ME 203: Thermodynamics 1

Tutorial Sheet - 2

1) Determine the phase or phases in a system consisting of H2O at the following conditions and
sketch the P-v and T-v diagrams showing the location of each state.
(a) P = 5 bar, T = 151.83⁰C.
(b) P = 5 bar, T = 200⁰C.
(c) T = 200⁰C, P = 2.5 MPa.
(d) T = 160⁰C, P = 4.8 bar.

3) Use steam tables to determine the


(a) Specific volume at T = 240⁰C, P = 1.25 MPa, in m3/kg.
(b) Temperature at P = 1.5 MPa, v = 0.1555 m3/kg, in ⁰C.
(c) Specific volume at T = 220⁰C, P = 1.4 MPa, in m3/kg.

4) Determine the quality of a two-phase liquid-vapor mixture of


(a) H2O at 100⁰C with specific volume of 0.8 m3/kg.
(b) Refrigerant 134a at 0⁰C with a specific volume of 0.7721 cm3/kg.

5) Using the tables for water, determine the specific property data at the indicated states. In each
case, locate the state on the sketches of the P-v and T-v diagrams,
(a) At P = 3 bar, T = 240⁰C, find v in m3/kg and u in kJ/kg.
(b) At P = 3 bar, v = 0.5 m3/kg, find T in ⁰C and u in kJ/kg.
(c) At T = 100⁰C, x = 60%, find P in bar and v in m3/kg.

6) A rigid tank contains 50 kg of saturated liquid water at 90°C. Determine the pressure in the
tank and the volume of the tank. [70.183 kPa, 0.0518 m3]

7) A piston–cylinder device contains 0.06 m3 of saturated water vapor at 350 kPa pressure.
Determine the temperature and the mass of the vapor inside the cylinder.
[138.86°C, 0.114 kg]

8) A mass of 200 g of saturated liquid water is completely vaporized at a constant pressure of


100 kPa. Determine (a) the volume change and (b) the amount of energy transferred to the water.
[0.3386 m3, 451.5 kJ]

9) A rigid tank contains 10 kg of water at 90°C. If 8 kg of the water is in the liquid form and the
rest is in the vapor form, determine (a) the pressure in the tank and (b) the volume of the tank.
[70.183 kPa, 4.73 m3]
10) An 80-L vessel contains 4 kg of refrigerant-134a at a pressure of 160 kPa. Determine (a) the
temperature, (b) the quality, (c) the enthalpy of the refrigerant, and (d) the volume occupied by
the vapor phase. [-15.60°C, 0.157, 64.2 kJ/kg, 0.0775 m3]

11) Determine the internal energy of water at 200 kPa and 300°C. [2808.8 kJ/kg]
12) Determine the temperature of water at a state of P = 0.5 MPa and h = 2890 kJ/kg. [216.3°C]

13) Determine the internal energy of compressed liquid water at 80°C and 5 MPa, using (a) data
from the compressed liquid table and (b) saturated liquid data. What is the error involved in the
second case? [333.82 kJ/kg, 334.97 kJ/kg, 0.34%]

14) 10 kg of R-134a fill a 1.595 m3 weighted piston-cylinder device at a temperature of -26.4°C.


The container is now heated until the temperature is 100°C. Determine the final volume of the R-
134a.

15) A piston-cylinder device contains 0.005 m3 of liquid water and 0.9 m3 of water vapor in
equilibrium at 600 kPa. Heat is transferred at a constant pressure until the temperature reaches
200°C.
(a.) What is the initial temperature of water?
(b.) Determine the total mass of the water.
(c.) Calculate the Final Volume.
(d.) Show the process on a P-v diagram with respect to saturation lines.

16) The air in an automobile tire with a volume of 0.015 m3 is at 32°C and 140 kPa (gage).
Determine the amount of air that must be added to raise the pressure to the recommended value
of 210 kPa (gage). Assume the atmospheric pressure to be 100 kPa and the temperature and the
volume to remain constant. [0.012 kg]

17) The pressure gage on a 2.5-m3 oxygen tank reads 500 kPa. Determine the amount of oxygen
in the tank if the temperature is 28°C and the atmospheric pressure is 97 kPa.

18) A 400-L rigid tank contains 5 kg of air at 25°C. Determine the reading on the pressure gage
if the atmospheric pressure is 97 kPa.

19) Determine the specific volume of nitrogen gas at 10 MPa and 150 K based on (a) the ideal-
gas equation and (b) the generalized compressibility chart. Compare these results with the
experimental value of 0.002388 m3/kg, and determine the error involved in each case.
[(a) 0.004452 m3/kg, 86.4 percent; (b) 0.002404 m3/kg, 0.7 percent]

20) Carbon dioxide gas enters a pipe at 3 MPa and 500 K at a rate of 2 kg/s. CO2 is cooled at
constant pressure as it flows in the pipe and the temperature CO2 drops to 450 K at the exit.
Determine the volume flow rate and the density of carbon dioxide at the inlet and the volume
flow rate at the exit of the pipe using (a) the ideal-gas equation and (b) the generalized
compressibility chart. Also, determine (c) the error involved in each case.

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