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The document outlines a tutorial on Engineering Thermodynamics, presenting six problems involving thermodynamic processes with various substances such as R-134a, water, and nitrogen. It includes calculations for final temperatures, enthalpy changes, and specific volumes, as well as sketches of T-v diagrams. The problems require applying principles of thermodynamics to analyze systems involving phase changes and gas laws.

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The document outlines a tutorial on Engineering Thermodynamics, presenting six problems involving thermodynamic processes with various substances such as R-134a, water, and nitrogen. It includes calculations for final temperatures, enthalpy changes, and specific volumes, as well as sketches of T-v diagrams. The problems require applying principles of thermodynamics to analyze systems involving phase changes and gas laws.

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Engineering Thermodynamics (CH161)

Tutorial – 4

1. A spring-loaded piston-cylinder device is initially filled


with 0.1 kg of an R-134a liquid-vapor mixture whose
temperature is -34°C and whose quality is 80 percent.
The spring constant in the spring force relation F = kx is
6.6 kN/m, and the piston diameter is 30 cm. The R-134a
undergoes a process that increases its volume by 50
percent. Calculate the final temperature and enthalpy of
the R-134a.

2. Water initially at 200 kPa and 390°C is contained in a piston-cylinder device fitted with
stops. The water is allowed to cool at constant pressure until it exists as a saturated vapor
and the piston rests on the stops. Then the water continues to cool until the pressure is
100 kPa. On the T-v diagrams sketch, with respect to the saturation lines, the process
curves passing through both the initial, intermediate, and final states of the water. Label
the T, P and v values for end states on the process curves. Find the overall change in
internal energy and enthalpy between the initial and final states per unit mass of water.
3. A rigid tank whose volume is unknown
is divided into two parts by a partition.
One side of the tank contains an ideal
gas at 927°C. The other side is evacuated
and has a volume twice the size of the
part containing the gas. The partition is
now removed and the gas expands to fill
the entire tank. Heat is now applied to
the gas until the pressure equals the initial pressure. Determine the final temperature of
the gas.

4. Determine the specific volume of superheated water vapor at 3.5 MPa and 450°C based
on (a) the ideal-gas equation, (b) the generalized compressibility chart, and (c) the steam
tables. Determine the error involved in the first two cases.
5. A 3.27-m3 tank contains 100 kg of nitrogen at 175 K. Determine the pressure in the tank,
using (a) the ideal-gas equation, (b) the van der Waals equation, and (c) the Beattie-
Bridgeman equation. Compare your results with the actual value of 1505 kPa.
6. A piston–cylinder device contains 0.6 kg of steam at 200°C and 0.5 MPa. Steam is
cooled at constant pressure until one-half of the mass condenses. (a) Show the process on
a T-v diagram. (b) Find the final temperature. (c) Determine the volume change.

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