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Instructions: School of Mechanical Engineering Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

This document consists of instructions for an online test in Thermo for engineering students. It has 2 questions, each worth a different number of marks. Question 1 has 2 parts worth a total of 5 and 15 marks. It asks about energy balances, work, and processes on P-V diagrams. Question 2 has 2 parts worth 5 and 15 marks total. It asks about the functions of devices like nozzles and turbines, and properties in diffusers and nozzles. The test is 1 hour and 30 minutes long and students must submit their answers as a single PDF by the deadline.

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Instructions: School of Mechanical Engineering Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

This document consists of instructions for an online test in Thermo for engineering students. It has 2 questions, each worth a different number of marks. Question 1 has 2 parts worth a total of 5 and 15 marks. It asks about energy balances, work, and processes on P-V diagrams. Question 2 has 2 parts worth 5 and 15 marks total. It asks about the functions of devices like nozzles and turbines, and properties in diffusers and nozzles. The test is 1 hour and 30 minutes long and students must submit their answers as a single PDF by the deadline.

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SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA

Test 2 online (Thermo) SKMU2113 (Engineering Science) Sem 2019/2020-02

Allowable duration: 1 hour 30 minutes


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Instructions
This test paper consists of 3 pages. Answer all the Questions. Start your writing at 9:00pm
and finish by 10:30pm. Submit your soft answer-script in a single pdf file by 10:45pm
through e-learning or WhatsApp as instructed by your lecturer.

Declaration
By submitting the answer script, you have declared that this is your own work without the
help of others.
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Question 1

a) A gas in a frictionless piston-cylinder device is heated by an electrical heater as shown


in Figure 1. During this process, the gas was expanded and caused the piston to move
freely upwards. At the same time, some amount of heat is transferred to the surrounding
air from the system.
i) write the energy balance equation for this process,
ii) is the work done in this process be positive, negative or zero? Justify your
answer,
iii) state an equation that can be used to determine the boundary work done during
this process.

[5 marks]
b) Air is contained in a cylinder fitted with a frictionless piston. Initially, the cylinder
contains 0.5 m3 of air at 100 kPa and 30°C. The air is now compressed slowly with a
polytropic exponent of 1.3 until the volume is 0.25 m3.
i) calculate the work done for the process (kJ),
ii) calculate the final temperature of air (ºC)
iii) determine the total amount of heat transfer during the process (kJ),
iv) sketch and label the process on a P-V diagram clearly showing the states and the
direction of the process.
For air, take the gas constant, R=0.287 kJ/kgK and average specific heat,
cp=1.005 kJ/kgK and cv=0.718 kJ/kgK.
[15 marks]

Question 2
a) Nozzle, Diffusers, Compressor and Turbine are commonly utilized in engineering
applications such as Power plant, Aircraft, Rocket propulsion etc.
i) what are the main functions of a compressor and a turbine?
ii) in a steady-flow diffuser, the value of properties (intensive or extensive)
does not change over time. TRUE or FALSE?
iii) for a steady-flow adiabatic nozzle, the heat loss is zero. TRUE or FALSE?
[5 marks]

a) Steam at superheated condition enters a turbine steadily at 5 MPa and 400 ºC with a
velocity of 40 m/s and leaves the turbine at 100 kPa with a quality of 95%. A heat loss
of 15 kJ/s occurs from the turbine during the process. The inlet and outlet area of the
turbine are 100 cm2 and 1200 cm2, respectively. Sketch the schematic diagram of the
process and determine,
i) the mass flow rate of water (kg/s),
ii) the exit velocity (m/s), and
iii) the power output of the turbine (MW).

[15 marks]
Property Table

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