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Tutorial 6.1 Heat Engines and Thermal Efficiency

This document contains 10 problems related to thermodynamic concepts like heat engines, thermal efficiency, heat transfer rates, refrigerators, heat pumps, and the second law of thermodynamics. The problems ask the reader to determine quantities like thermal efficiency, heat transfer rates, power output, power consumption, and required power input given rates of heat transfer and coefficients of performance.

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Tutorial 6.1 Heat Engines and Thermal Efficiency

This document contains 10 problems related to thermodynamic concepts like heat engines, thermal efficiency, heat transfer rates, refrigerators, heat pumps, and the second law of thermodynamics. The problems ask the reader to determine quantities like thermal efficiency, heat transfer rates, power output, power consumption, and required power input given rates of heat transfer and coefficients of performance.

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Universiti Tun Hussien Onn Malaysia (UTHM) Faculty of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Department of Plant and utomotive

Engineering Thermodynamic ! ("D #$##) %em ! #$$& ' #$$( TUTORIAL 6.1 Heat Engines and Thermal Efficiency 1. Is it possible for a heat engine to operate without rejecting any waste heat to a low-temperature reservoir? Explain 2. What are the characteristics of all heat engines? . What is the !elvin-"lanc# expression of the secon$ law of thermo$ynamics? %. & '(()W steam power plant* which is coole$ by a nearby river* has a thermal efficiency of %( percent. +etermine the rate of heat transfer to the river water. Will the actual heat transfer rate be higher or lower than this value? Why? ,. & steam power plant receives heat from a furnace at a rate of 2-( ./0h. 1eat losses to the surroun$ing air from the steam as it passes through the pipes an$ other components are estimate$ to be about - ./0h. If the waste heat is transferre$ to the cooling water at a rate of 1%, ./0h* $etermine 2a3 net power output an$ 2b3 the thermal efficiency of this power plant. Refrigerators and Heat Pum s '. & househol$ refrigerator with a 45" of 1.2 removes heat from the refrigerate$ space at a rate of '( #/0min. +etermine 2a3 the electric power consume$ by the refrigerator an$ 2b3 the rate of heat transfer to the #itchen air. 6. Water enters an ice machine at 1 74 an$ leaves as ice at -%74. If the 45" of the ice machine is 2.% $uring this operation* $etermine the re8uire$ power input for an ice pro$uction rate of 12 #g0h. 2 9 #/ of energy nee$s to be remove$ from each #g of water at 1 74 to turn it into ice at -%74.3 -. +etermine the 45" of a refrigerator that removes heat from the foo$ compartment at a rate of ,(%( #/0h for each #W of power it consumes. &lso* $etermine the rate of heat rejection to the outsi$e air. 9. & heat pump use$ to heat a house runs about one-thir$ of the time. :he house is losing heat at an average rate of 22*((( #/0h. If the 45" of the heat pump is 2.-* $etermine the power the heat pump $raws when running. 1(. & heat pump is use$ to maintain a house at a constant temperature of 2 74. :he house is losing heat to the outsi$e air through the walls an$ the win$ows at a rate of '(*((( #/0h while the energy generate$ within the house from people* lights* an$ appliances amounts to %((( #/0h. ;or a 45" of 2.,* $etermine the re8uire$ power input to the heat pump.

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