CIT – UNIVERSITY MECHANICAL ENGINEERING ME COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION COURSE 3 DAILY EXAM 04– THERMODYNAMIC CYCLES SET A 1
1. In a Carnot cycle engine, the volume of helium after adiabatic
compression is 23.8% of that before the compression. The sink 11. An ideal Ericsson engine using helium (cp = 1.25 Btu/lbm-R, R = 0.4961 22. The indicator used to determine the anti-knock characteristics of gasoline.
temperature is 30°C. Determine the thermal efficiency. Btu/lbm-R) as the working fluid operates between temperature limits of A. Aniline point C. Cetane number
A. 60.7% C. 61.6%* 550 and 3000 R and pressure limits of 25 and 200 psia. Assuming a mass B. Octane number* D. Diesel index
B. 62.7% D. 63.7% flow rate of 14 lbm/s, determine the thermal efficiency of the cycle.
A. 61.87% C. 81.67%* 23. A Carnot cycle is represented by a rectangle in a T-s diagram that
2. When four events take place in one revolution of a crankshaft of an B. 76.18% D. 67.18% operates between temperature limits of 300K and 650K. Inscribed within
engine, the engine is called: a rectangle is a triangle with based coincides with the sink temperature
A. Gasoline engine C. two-stroke engine* 12. Exhaust stroke of gasoline engine is also known as and the triangle apex with the source temperature. Considering that the
B. Diesel engine D. four-stroke engine A. Supercharging C. scavenging* base of the triangle is three times that of its altitude. Determine the
B. Choking D. knocking thermal efficiency of the cycle represented by a triangle.
3. Helium gas in an ideal Otto cycle is compressed from 20°C and 2.5 L to A. 44.88% C. 36.84%*
0.25 L, and its temperature increases by an additional 700°C during the 13. An engine operates on the air-standard Otto cycle. The cycle work is 1000 B. 43.66% D. 34.68%
heat addition process. The temperature of helium before the expansion kJ/kg. What is the compression ratio of the engine if the maximum cycle
process is temperature is 3173K and the temperature at the end of isentropic 24. Which of the following does not belong to the group?
A. 620°C C. 1790°C* compression is 773K. A. Stirling Cycle C. Ericsson Cycle
B. 1240°C D. 2060°C A. 6.85 C. 8.85* B. Carnot Power Cycle D. Otto cycle*
B. 7.85 D. 9.85
4. Detonation of pinging noise is due to: 25. What must be the temperature in °F at which heat is supplied to a Carnot
A. Early timing of fuel injection C. head of piston carbonized 14. In a gasoline engine cycle, the heat is added during engine if twice as much energy is delivered as work as rejected to the sink
B. Late timing of fuel injection* D. valve springs weak or broken A. Isothermal process C. isobaric process at 50°F?
B. Isometric process* D. isentropic process A. 1040 °F C. 1650°F
5. A Carnot cycle operates between the temperatures limits of 300 K and B. 1070 °F* D. 1560°F
2000 K, and produces 600 kW of net power. The rate of entropy change 15. The compression ratio of an engine working on the constant volume cycle
of the working fluid during the heat addition process is is 9.3 to 1. At the beginning of compression the temperature is 31C and 26. Two-stroke engine performs _______ to complete one cycle.
A. 0 C. 0.261 kW/K at the end of combustion is 1205C. Taking the compression and A. suction and discharge stroke
B. 0.300 kW/K D. 0.353 kW/K* expansion to adiabatic and k as 1.4. What is the thermal efficiency? B. power and exhaust stroke
A. 54.02% C. 58.02% C. compression and power stroke*
6. Otto cycle consists of: B. 56.02% D. 59.02%* D. suction and exhaust stroke
A. Two isentropic and two constant volume processes*
B. Two isentropic and two constant pressure processes 16. The heat exchanger used in an Ericsson cycle is 27. The stroke of a gas engine which works on the constant volume cycle is
C. Two adiabatic and two isothermal processes A. Regenerator C. intercooler 450 mm. The pressure at the beginning of the compression is 1.01 bar
D. Two isothermal and two isentropic processes B. Combustion chamber D. recuperator* and at the end of the compression it is 11.1bar. Assuming compression
follows the law PV1.36=C, calculate the clearance between the piston and
7. In an ideal Otto cycle, air is compressed from 1.20 kg/m3 and 2.2 L to 17. The efficiency of an ideal Otto cycle is 40%. What is the hot air value of cylinder cover at the end of compression in mm of length.
0.26 L, and the net work output of the cycle is 440 kJ/kg. The mean k, if the compression ratio is 6.2? A. 73.26 mm C. 93.26 mm*
effective pressure (MEP) for this cycle is A. 1.28* C. 1.25 B. 83.26 mm D. 103.26 mm
A. 367 kPa C. 416 kPa B. 1.38 D. 1.35
B. 599 kPa* D. 612 kPa 28. In a spark ignition engine, the detonation occurs near the ______.
18. In Stirling engine, the heat is added during A. end of combustion* C. middle of combustion
8. Which is not correct for calculating air-standard efficiency? A. Isothermal process* C. isobaric process B. beginning of combustion D. beginning of interaction
A. All processes are reversible B. Isometric process D. isentropic process
B. Specific heat remains unchanged at all temperatures 29. In an air standard Otto cycle, the clearance volume is 12 % of the
C. No account of the mechanism off heat transfer is considered 19. A heat engine receives hat from a source at 1200 K at a rate of 500 KJ/s displacement volume. What is the thermal efficiency?
D. Gases dissociate at higher temperatures* and rejects the waste heat to a medium at 276 K. The power output of the A. 57% C. 58%
heat engine is 180 KW. Determine the irreversibility rate for this process. B. 59%* D. 60%
9. A 4 liter (2-liter per revolution at standard pressure and temperature) A. 190 KW C. 200 KW
spark ignition engine has a compression ratio of 8 and 2200 kJ/kg heat B. 195 KW D. 205 KW* 30. A fictitious pressure which determines the approximate value of power to
addition by the fluid combustion. Considering a cold air-standard otto be produced by a certain heat engine.
cycle model, how much power will the engine produce when operating at 20. Air standard efficiency of an Otto cycle depends on A. Indicated mean effective pressure
2500 rpm? A. speed C. fuel amount B. Brake mean effective pressure
A. 166.53 hp * C. 97.4 hp B. fuel thermal energy D. compression ratio* C. Mean effective pressure*
B. 73.12 hp D. 148 hp D. Engine mean effective pressure
21. In an air-standard Otto cycle, air enters at 104.7 kPa and 27 C. The
10. To measure the clearance between the valve and tappet of an automobile compression ratio is 7:1. If the net wrk of the cycle is 120 kJ/kg, what is ---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
engine, we use a: the heat supplied?
A. Vernier scale C. pneumatic gauge A. 122.88 kJ/kg C. 221.88 kJ/kg*
B. Feeler gauge* D. slip gauge B. 188.22 kJ/kg D. 288.12 kJ/kg
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