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ASSIGNMENT B. -72.68 Btu/lbm D. -84.48 Btu/lbm

18. Nitrogen is expanded isentropically. Its changes from
1. The specific volume of steam at atmospheric pressure 10. What is the resulting pressure when one pound of air 620 °F to 60 F. Find the ratio (p1 / p2)
and 212° F is 26.80 ft3/lb. Find its density and its specific at 15 psia and 200 °F is heated at constant volume A. 0.08 C. 26.2
weight. to 800°F? B. 12.9 D. 3547
A. 0.03731 Ib/ft3 and 0.03731 lb/ft3 A. 15 psi C. 36.4 psia
B. 0.37310 Ib/ft3 and 0.05450 Ib/ft3 B. 28.6 psia D. 52.1 psia 19. An engine takes in 11,000 Btu/min of heat from a hot
C. 0.03480 Ib/ft3 and 0.04520 Ib/ft3 body while giving an output of 110 hp What is the thermal
D. 0.05420 Ib/ft3 and 0.03731 Ib/ft3 11. What horsepower is required to isothermally efficiency of this engine?
compress 800 ft3 of air per minute from 14.7 psia to 120 A. 44.2 C. 52 4%
2. Convert water pressure of 50 kN/m in equivalent
2
psia? B. 42.4 D. 54.2%
rneter- head of water. A. 28 hp C. 256 hp
A. 5.1 C. 7.1 B. 108 hp D. 17,000hp 20. Air expanded adiabatically from an initial absolute
B. 6.1 D. 4.1 pressure of 31026 kPa to a final absolute pressure of
12. How many gallons per minute of cooling water are 1705 psi. If the initial temperature of the air is 600 R.
3. In a certain non-flow process, the internal energy required to removed 100.000 kJ/hr of heat from a diesel calculate its final temperature
decreases 20 Btu/lb, and 77,800 ft lbf/lb of work is done engine if the designed temperature rise of the water is A. 455 R C. 252.6 R
on the substance. Find the total head added or 20°C? B. 252.6 K D. A and B
abstracted in Btu/lb. A. 2.58 C. 5.26
A. -120 Btu/lb C. -77,800 Btu/lb B. 6.25 D. 4.25 21. With three different quantities x, y. and z of the same
B. +120 Btu/lb D. 77,800 Btu/lb kind of liquid of temperatures 9, 21 and 38°C
13. Twenty grams of oxygen gas (02) are compressed at Respectively. It is found that when x and y are mixed
4. Consider 1 kg of air at 32ºC that expanded by a a constant temperature of 30°C to 5 % of their together the resultant temperature is 17°C and when y
reversible polytropic process with n = 1.25 until the original volume. What work is done on the system? and z are mixed together the resultant temperature is
pressure is halved. Determine the heat transfer. Specific A. 824 Cal C. 944 Cal 28°C. Find the resultant, temperature if x and z were
heat at constant volume for air is 0.1786 kJ/kg K. B. 1124 Cal D. 1144 Cal mixed.
A. 17.02 kJ heat rejected C. 17.02 kJ heat added A. 29.87°C C. 20.85
B. 7.07 kJ heat rejected D. 7.07 kJ heat added 14. A certain mass of gas having an initial pressure of B. 25.92°C D. 24.86°C
17,237 kPa and an initial volume of 0.057 m3 is
5. The specific gas constant of oxygen is R = 0.25983 expanded isothermally to volume of 0.113 m3. What 22. A large mining company was provided with a 3000
kJ/kg K. If a 2 m3 tank contains is the work done by the gas in kJ? cm3 of compressed air tank. Air pressure in the tank
40 kg of oxygen at 40 °C. what is the gage pressure in A. 500 C. 672 drops from 700 kPa to 180 kPa while the temperature
the tank? B. 564 D. 600 remains unchanged at 28°C. What percentage has the
A. 61 kPa C. 110 kPa mass of air in the tank been reduced?
B. 160 kPa D. 1.53 MPa 15. Air having an initial pressure of 6,516 kPa and an A. 74 C. 76
initial volume of 0.113 m3 is compressed B. 72 D. 78
6. Convert specific heat of 0.23 Btu/lb-°F to kJ/kg-K. adiabatically to a final volume of 0.057 m3. Calculate
A. 1.036 C. 0.089 the work done by the gas as it compresses to a final 23. How much work is necessary to compress air in an
B. 0.963 D. 0.722 Pressure of 237 kPa. insulated cylinder from 0.20 m3 to 0.01 m3. Use T1 = 20°C
A. -175.9 kJ C. -157.9 kJ and P1 = 100 kPa
7. One kilogram of water (Cp = 4.2 kJ / kg.K) is heated by B. -197.5 kJ D. -179.5 Kj A. 113.4 kJ C. 110.1 kJ
300 Btu of energy. What is the change in temperature, in A. 121.4 kJ D. 115.7 Kj
K? 16. Gas is enclosed in a cylinder with a weighted piston
A. 17.9 K C. 73.8 K as the top boundary. The gas is heated and expands 24. A heat engine is operated between temperature limits
B. 71.4 K D. 75.4 K from a volume of 0.04 m3 to 0.10 m3 at a constant of 1370°C and 260°C. Engine is supplied with 14.142
pressure of 200 kPa. Calculate the work done by the kJ/kwh. Find the Carnot cycle efficiency in percent.
8. A gas bubble rising from lhe ocean floor is 1 inch in system. A. 70.10 C. 67.56
diameter at a depth of 50 feet. Given that sp. gr. of A. 8 kJ C. 12 kJ B. 65.05 D. 69.32
sealer is 1.03, the buoyant force in lbs being B. 10 kJ B. 14 kJ
exerted on the bubble at this instant is nearest to:
A. 0.014 C. 0.076 17. Gas is enclosed in a cylinder with a weighted piston 25. A closed vessel contains air at a pressure of 160
B. 0.020 D. 0.14 as the top boundary. The gas is heated and expands kN/m2 gauge and temperature of 30°C. The air is
from a volume of 0.04 m3 to 0.10 m3. The pressure varies heated at constant volume to 60°C with the atmospheric
9. Determine the change in enthalpy per lbm of nitrogen such that PV = constant, and the initial pressure is 200 pressure of 759 mm Hg what is the final gauge pressure?
gas as its temperature changes from 500°F to 200° (Cp = kPa. Calculate the work done by the system A. 174 C. 167
0.2483 Btu / lbm -°R) A. 6.8 kJ C. 9 59 kJ B. 186 D. 172
A. 274.49 Btu/lbm C. -68.47 Btu/lbm B. 7.33 kJ D. 17.33 kJ
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26. What is the temperature in °C of 2 liters of water at

30°C after 500 Calories of heat have been added? 33. What is the total required heating energy In raising 41. A pressure gage registers 50 psig in a region where
A. 35.70 C. 38 temperature of a given amount of water when the when the barometer reads 14.8 psia. Find the absolute
B. 30.25 D. 172 the energy supplied is 1000 kwh with heat losses of pressure in kPa.
25%? A. 766.66 kPa C. 446.66 kPa
27. A steam condenser receives 10 kg per second of A. 1000 C. 1333 B. 558.66 kPa D. 326.66 kPa
Steam with an enthalpy of 2,570 kJ/kg. Steam condenses B. 1500 D. 1250
into liquid and leaves with an enthalpy of 160 kJ/kg. 42. A new temperature scale is to be used where
Cooling water passes through the condenser with 34. A vessel of 0.058 m3 capacity is well insulated and is freezing and boiling temperature of water is at 100 deg.N
temperature increases from 13°C to 24°C. Calculate the divided equally by rigid conducting diaphragm. and 100 deg. N respectively. Calculate the absolute zero
cooling water flow rate in kg/s. Initially both halves contain air at pressure of 137.8 in degree N.
A. 533 C. 523 kPa and 413.4 kPa and a temperature of 27°C and A. - 992.6 deg N C. – 995.6 deg N
C. 353 D. 325 177°C respectively. What is the increase of entropy B. – 932.7 deg N D. – 932.4 deg N
of the system in kJ/°C.
28. A Steam expands adiabatically in a turbine from 2000 A. 1.002 C. 0.00173 43. The following expressions relate to a particular
kPa, 400°C to 400 kPa, 250°C. What is the effectiveness B. 0.5080 D. 0.1080 gaseous mass: PV = 95T, h = 120 + 0.60T where these
of the process in percent assuming an atmospheric units obtain in lb/ft², V = 500 ft³/lb, T in ºR and h in
temperature of 15°C. Neglect changes in kinetic and 35. A certain gas at 101.325 kPa and 16°C whose BTU/lb. If the specific heats are temperature dependent
potential energy. volume is 2.83 m are compressed into a storage vessel only, find Cp and Cv.
Properties of steam: of 0.31 m3 capacity. Before admission, the storage A. 0.6 Btu/lb ºR, 0.48 Btu/lb ºR
At 2000 kPa and 400°C ( h = 3,247.6 kJ/kg, S = 7.1271 vessel contained the gas at a pressure and temperature B. 0.6 Btu/lb ºR, 0.7 Btu/lb ºR
kJ/kg-K) and at 400 kPa and 250°C of 137.8 kPa and 24°C. After admission, the pressure C. 0.5 Btu/lb ºR, 0.50 Btu/lb ºR
( h = 2,964.2 kJ/kg , S = 7.3789 kJ/kg-K ) has increased to 1171.8 kPa. What should be the final D. 0.50 Btu/lb ºR, 0.48 Btu/lb ºR
A. 82 C. 80 temperature of the gas in the vessel in Kelvin ?
B. 84 D. 86 A. 298.0 C. 180
B. 319.0 D. 420 44. Calculate the change in enthalpy as 1kg of nitrogen is
29. Steam enters the superheaters of a boiler at a heated from 1000K to 1500K, assuming the nitrogen is
pressure of 25 bar and dryness of 0.98 and leaves at the 36. What pressure is column of water 100 cm high an ideal gas at a constant pressure. The temperature
same pressure at a temperature of 370°C. Calculate the equivalent to? dependent specific heat of nitrogen is Cp = 39.06 -
heat energy supplied in the superheaters. A. 9807 dynes/cm2 C. 0.10 Bar 512.79T1.5 + 1072.7T2 - 820.4T3 where Cp is in kJ/kg-
Properties of steam: B. 9807 N/m2 D. 98100 N/m2 mol and T is in K.
At 25 bar and 370°C ( h = 3171.8 kJ/kg ) and at 25 bar A. 600 kJ C. 800 kJ
and 0.98 dryness 37. Work done by a substance in reversible nonflow B. 697.27 kJ D. 897.27 kJ
( hf = 962.11 KJ/kg , hfg = 1841.01 kJ/kg ). manner in accordance with V = 100/P ft3, where P is in
A 407.46 C. 405.51 psia. Evaluate the work done on or by the substance as 45. For a certain gas, R=0.277 kJ/kg.K and k=1.384. (a)
B. 408.57 D. 406.54 the pressure increases from 10 psia to 100 psia. What are the value of cp and cv?
A. 33 157.22 ft-lb C. 43 157.22 ft-lb A. 0.9984 kJ/kg-K, 0.7213 kJ/kg-K
30. The thermal efficiency of a particular engine B. -33 157.22 ft-lb D. - 43, 157.22 ft-lb B. 0.7124 kJ/kg-K, 0.8124 kJ/kg-K
operating on an ideal cycle is 35%. Calculate the C. 1 kJ/kg-K, 0.8124 kJ/kg-K
heat supplied per 1200 watt-hr of work developed in kJ. 38. Assume 8 lb of a substance receive 240 Btu of heat D. A. 0.9984 kJ/kg-K, 0.6124 kJ/kg-K
A. 12 343 C.14 218 at constant volume and undergo a temperature change of
B. 10 216 D.11 108 150°F. Determine the average specific heat of the 46. An air with mass of 0.454 kg and an unknown mass
substance during the process. of CO2 occupy an 85 liters tank at 2068.44 Kpaa. If
31. Determine the average Cp value in kJ/kg-K of a gas if A.0.5 Btu/lb°F C. 0.40 Btu/lb°F the partial pressure of the C02 is 344.74 kPaa. Determine
522 kJ of heat is necessary to raise the temperature from B.0.3 Btu/ib°F D. 0.20 Btu/lb°F its mass.
300 K to 800 K making the pressure constant. A. 0.138 kg C. 0.183kg
A. 1.440 C. 1.038 39. Determine the specific weight of air at 760 mmHg B. 0. 238 kg D. 0.283 kg
B. 1.044 D. 1.026 absolute and 22°C.
3 A. 1.134 kg/m3 C. 1.197 kg/m 47. After series of state changes, the pressure and
32. Ammonia weighing 22 kg Is confined inside a cylinder B. 1.416 kg/m D. 1.276 kg/m volume of 2.286 kg of Nitrogen (Cp = 1.0414 kJ/kg-K
equipped with a piston has an initial and Cv = 0.7442 kJ/kg-K) are each doubled. What is ΔS?
pressure of 413 kPa at 38°C. If 2900 kJ of heat is added 40. A one cubic container contains a mixture of gases A. 2.807 kJ/kg-K C. 2.987 kJ/kg-K
to the ammonia until Its pressure and temperature are composed of 0.02 kg-mol of oxygen and 0.04 kg-mol of B 2.268 kJ/kg-K D. 3.407 kJ/kg-K
413 kPa and 100°C, respectively, What is the amount of helium at a pressure of 220 kPa. What is the temperature
work done by the fluid In kJ ? of this ideal gas mixture in degrees Kelvin? 48. Helium (R = 0.4968 Btu/lbm°R) is compressed
A. 667 C. 420 A 441 C.404 isothermally from 14.7 psia and 68°F. The compression
B. 304 D. 502 B.450 D.360 ratio is 4. Calculate the work done by the gas
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A. -364 Btu/lbm C. - 187 Btu/lbm

B. -145 Btu/lb D. - 46.7 Btu/lbm

49. Twenty grams of oxygen gas (O2) are compressed at

a constant temperature of 30°C to 5% of their original
volume What work is done on the system? Use R of air
0.0619 Cal/gm-K
A. 824 Cal C. 944 Cal
B. 924 Cal D. 1124 Cal

50. Gas is enclosed In a cylinder with a weighted piston

as the top boundary The gas is heated nnd expands from
a volume of 0.04 m1 and expand from a volume of 0.04
m3 to 0.10 m3 at a constant pressure of 200 kPa.
Calculate the work done by the system.
A. 8 kJ C. 12 kJ
B. 10 kJ D. 14 KJ