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The document contains 8 thermodynamics problems from chapters 3 and 4 of an engineering thermodynamics course. The problems cover topics like properties of water, expansion of liquids, heating of steam, heat pumps, refrigerators, and heat engines.

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Assignment 2 Final

The document contains 8 thermodynamics problems from chapters 3 and 4 of an engineering thermodynamics course. The problems cover topics like properties of water, expansion of liquids, heating of steam, heat pumps, refrigerators, and heat engines.

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Addis Ababa Science and Technology University

College of Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering


Engineering Thermodynamics course for 2nd-year Electrical Engineering
students
Assignment #2 (from chapter three and chapter four)

From Chapter three

1. Complete this table for H2O

2. An insulated tank is divided into two parts by a partition. One part of the tank contains
2.5 kg of compressed liquid water at 60 oC and 600 kPa while the other part is evacuated. The
partition is now removed, and the water expands to fill the entire tank. Determine the final
temperature of the water and the volume of the tank for a final pressure of 10 kPa. Ans. 45.81oC
& 0.972 m3
3. Steam at 75 kPa and 8 percent quality is contained in a spring-loaded piston–cylinder
device, as shown in Figure, with an initial volume of 2 m 3. Steam is now heated until
its volume is 5 m3 and its pressure is 225 kPa. Determine the heat transferred to and the
work produced by the steam during this process. Ans. 12750 kJ & 450 kJ

From Chapter four


4. A heat pump is used to maintain a house at a constant temperature of 23 oC. The house
is losing heat to the outside air through the walls and the windows at a rate of 85,000
kJ/h while the energy generated within the house from people, lights, and appliances
amounts to 4000 kJ/h. For a COP of 3.2, determine the required power input to the heat
pump.

5. An inventor claims to have devised a cyclical engine for use in space vehicles that
operates with a nuclear-fuel-generated energy source whose temperature is 510 oC and a
sink at 270oC that radiates waste heat to deep space. He also claims that this engine
produces 4.1 kW while rejecting heat at a rate of 15,000 kJ/h. Is this claim valid?
6. During an experiment conducted in a room at 25oC, a laboratory assistant measures that
a refrigerator that draws 2 kW of power has removed 30,000 kJ of heat from the
refrigerated space, which is maintained at 230 oC. The running time of the refrigerator
during the experiment was 20 min. Determine if these measurements are reasonable.

7. A Carnot heat pump is used to heat and maintain a residential building at 24 oC. An
energy analysis of the house reveals that it loses heat at a rate of 4500 kJ/h per oC
temperature difference between the indoors and the outdoors. For an outdoor
temperature of 2 oC, determine (a) the coefficient of performance and (b) the required
power input to the heat pump.
8. A heat engine operates between two reservoirs at 800 and 20 oC. One-half of the work
output of the heat engine is used to drive a Carnot heat pump that removes heat from
the cold surroundings at 2 oC and transfers it to a house maintained at 22 oC. If the
house is losing heat at a rate of 62,000 kJ/h, determine the minimum rate of heat supply
to the heat engine required to keep the house at 22 oC.

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