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THERMO Ch1 Tutorial

The document contains a tutorial on gas laws and work in thermofluids for mechanical engineering. It includes various problems related to gas compression, expansion, work calculations, and specific volume, along with their solutions. The tutorial emphasizes understanding the principles of thermodynamics and the mathematical relationships governing gas behavior.

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THERMO Ch1 Tutorial

The document contains a tutorial on gas laws and work in thermofluids for mechanical engineering. It includes various problems related to gas compression, expansion, work calculations, and specific volume, along with their solutions. The tutorial emphasizes understanding the principles of thermodynamics and the mathematical relationships governing gas behavior.

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DISCIPLINE OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING:

THERMOFLUIDS
ENME2TF H1

TUTORIAL 1: GASLAWS-WORK

1. A volume of gas equal to 0.112 m3 has a pressure of 138 kPa. It is compressed to 690 kPa
according to the law pV1.4 = C. Determine the new volume of the gas. [0.035 m3]

2. A volume of gas equal to 0.114 m3 and at a pressure of 2070 kPa expands to a pressure of 207
kPa according to the law pV1.35 = C. Determine the work done by the gas during the expansion.
[-302.8 kJ]

3. A cylinder containing 0.283 m3 of air is sealed with a piston at an initial pressure of 101.3 kPa.
Energy is then supplied to the system so that the air expands to twice its initial volume. Find the
work done if the system has an initial temperature of 24°C and the pressure between the initial
and final states of the system is (a) constant, (b) inversely proportional to the volume. Briefly
explain why the answers for (a) and (b) are different. [28.7 kJ, 19.9 kJ]

4. A cylinder having a volume of 0.1m3 contains 10 kg of gas. Determine the specific volume. If 7
kg of gas escapes, calculate the final specific volume and the final density.
[0.033 m3/kg, 30 kg/m3]

5. Calculate the work done when 0.2 m3 of gas expands to 0.5 m3 under a constant pressure of 100
kPa. Draw a pressure-volume diagram for the process. [30 kJ]

6. Air expands in a cylinder according to the law pV1.4 = C, from an initial volume of 1m3 and a
pressure of 100 kPa to a final volume of 2 m3. Compute the work done. C is a constant.
[60.54 kJ]

7. A vapour in a cylinder is compressed frictionlessly from 150 kPa and 1 m3 to 800 kPa in such a
manner that pV = C. Sketch the process on a pV diagram and calculate the work done. [-251.1 kJ]

8. A bicycle pump which has a stroke of 0.2 m is used to force air into a tyre against a pressure of
400 kPa. What length of stroke will be swept through before air begins to enter the tyre when the
piston is pushed in

(i) Very slowly [0.15 m]


(ii) Quickly [0.126 m]

Assume atmospheric pressure is 100 kPa and assume there is no leakage past the piston plunger. γ
= 1.4
9. One kilogram of an ideal gas at a pressure of 100 kPa and volume 1 m3 is heated at constant
volume until the pressure is doubled, allowed to expand isothermally until the pressure drops to
its original value and then compressed at constant pressure until the volume returns to its original
value.

(i) Sketch the process on a pV diagram.


(ii) Find the net work done in the process. [38.63 kJ]

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