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DIT UNIVERSITY DEHRADUN

B.TECH(ME) ENDTERM EXAMINATION (BACK), ODD SEM 2019-20 (SEM III)
Roll No.
Subject Name: Engineering Thermodynamics
Time: 3 Hours Total Marks: 100
Note: All questions are compulsory. No student is allowed to leave the examination hall before the completion of the exam.
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Q.1) Attempt all Parts :
(a) State Zeroth law of thermodynamics giving its practical importance.
(b) A heat pump and a refrigerator both working between two reservoirs, show that the COPH.P= 1+COPRef.
(c) Derive the expression for work done in reversible adiabatic process.
(d) Write down the general energy equation for steady flow system and simplify when applied for Reciprocating
air compressor and a Steam nozzle.
[4 x 5= 20]
Q.2) Attempt all Parts :
(a) A mass of gas is compressed in a quasi-static process from 80 kPa, 0.1 m3 to 0.4 MPa, 0.03 m3. The pressure
and volume are related by PVn = constant, find the work done by the gas system.
(b) Why in a constant pressure non-flow process, the enthalpy change is equal to heat transfer?
(c) State first law of thermodynamics for a cycle and a process and prove that internal energy is the property of
a system.
(d) A mass of 1.5 kg of air is compressed in a quasi-static process from 0.1 MPa to 0.7 MPa for which pv = constant.
The initial density of air is 1.16 kg/m3. Find the work done by the piston to compress the air.
[4 x 5= 20]
Q.3) Attempt any Two Parts :
(a) Write down the Kelvin-Plank and Clausius statements of second law. Prove their equivalence. What is PMM-
II?
(b) Air flows steadily at the rate of 0.4 kg/s through an air compressor, entering at 6 m/s with a pressure of 1 bar
and a specific volume of 0.85 m3/kg, and leaving at 4.5 m/s with a pressure of 6.9 bar and a specific volume of
0.16 m3/kg. The internal energy of the air leaving is 88 kJ/kg greater than that of the air entering. Cooling water
in a jacket surrounding the cylinder absorbs heat from the air at the rate of 59 W. Calculate the power required
to drive the compressor and the inlet and outlet cross-sectional areas.
(c) A gas undergoes a thermodynamic cycle consisting of the following processes:
(i) Process 1–2: Constant pressure p = 1.4 bar, V1 = 0.028 m3, W12 = 10.5 kJ
(ii) Process 2–3: Compression with pV = constant, U3 = U2
(iii) Process 3–1: Constant volume, U1– U3 = – 26.4 kJ. There are no significant changes in KE and PE.
I. Sketch the cycle on a p–V diagram and calculate the net work for the cycle in kJ
II. Calculate the heat transfer for process 1–2 and show that for given cycle ΣQ =ΣW.
[2 x 10= 20]
Q.4) Attempt any Two Parts :
(a) To a closed system, 150 kJ of work is supplied. If the initial volume is 0.6 m3 and pressure of the system changes
as p = 8 – 4V, where p is in bar and V is in m3, determine the final volume and pressure of the system.
(b) Using an engine of 30% thermal efficiency to drive a refrigerator having a COP of 5, what is the heat input into
the engine for each MJ removed from the cold body by the refrigerator? If this system is used as a heat pump,
how many MJ of heat would be available for heating for each MJ of heat input to the engine?
(c) If a gas of volume 6000 cm3 and at pressure of 100 kPa is compressed quasistatically according to pV2= constant
until the volume becomes 2000 cm3, determine the final pressure and the work transfer.
[2 x 10= 20]
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Q.5) Attempt any Two Parts :

(a) Determine the heat required to produce 1 kg of steam at a pressure of 6 bar and temperature of 25 °C, under
the following condition:
(i) when steam dryness fraction is 0.9;
(ii) when the steam is dry saturated;
when it is superheated at a constant pressure at 250 °C, assuming the mean specific heat of superheated
steam to be 2.3 kJ/kg K.
(b) An inventor claim to develop a heat engine having heat interactions with four reservoirs at 600, 400, 300 and
200K, respectively. It extracts 1200 kJ and 800 kJ of heat from reservoirs at 600 and 400K, respectively and
the associated heat interactions with 300K and 200K reservoirs are 500kJ and 300kJ, respectively. Check the
feasibility of the heat engine.
(c) 10 kg of fluid per minute goes through a reversible steady flow process. The properties of fluid at the inlet are
: p1 = 1.5 bar, ρ1 = 26 kg/m3, C1 = 110 m/s and u1 = 910 kJ/kg and at the exit are p2 = 5.5 bar, ρ2 = 5.5 kg/m3, C2
= 190 m/s and u2 = 710 kJ/kg. During the passage, the fluid rejects 55 kJ/s of heat and rises through 55 metres.
Determine :
(i) The change in enthalpy (Δ h) ;
(ii) Work done during the process (W).
[2 x 10= 20]
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