REVIEW PROBLEMS

1. An engineer designed an engine that has an efficiency of 25% and will absorb heat at a
temperature of 267C. Compute the temperature at the exhaust considering that this is an ideal
engine.
2. A Carnot machine operates between a hot reservoir at 200C and a cold reservoir at 20C.
When operated as an engine, it receives 1000kJ/kg, find the coefficient of performance (COP),
when operated as refrigerator.
3. Steam at 5 MPa and 350C enters a turbine and expands isentropically to 0.01 MPa. If the
steam flow rate is 100,000 kg/hr, determine the turbine power.
4. Determine the theoretical horsepower required for the isothermal compression of 800
ft3/min of air from 14.7 to 120 psia.
5. What is the efficiency of an Otto cycle with a compression ratio of 6:1 if the gas is air?
6. An ideal gas is compressed adiabatically to one-fourth its original volume. During the process
70 J of work is done on the gas by the compressing agent. How much is the change in internal
energy?
7. 2 lbm of 200 F iron (cp=0.1 Btu/lbm-F)are dropped into a gallon of 40 F water. What is the
final temperature of the mixture?
8. An ideal gas is 45 psig and 80F is heated in a closed container to 130F. What is the final
pressure?
9. How many Btu are needed to isothermally compress 4 lbm of 240F air to twice the original
pressure.
10. A gas has a density of 0.094 lbm/ft 3 at 100F and 2 atm. What pressure is needed to change
the density to 0.270 lbm/ft3 at 250F?
11. Twenty grams of oxygen gas are compressed at a constant temperature of 30C to 5% of
their original volume. What work is done on the system?
12. Gas is enclosed in a cylinder with a weighted piston as the top boundary. The gas is heated
and expands from a volume of 0.04 m3 to 0.10 m3. The pressure varies such that pV=constant, and
the initial pressure is 200 kPa. Calculate the work done by the system.
13. A tank contains 3 cubic feet of 120 psig air at 80F. How many tires of volume 1.2 ft 3 can be
inflated to 28 psig at 80F.
14. Compute the maximum possible efficiency of an engine operating between temperatures of
100C and 752F.
15. A gas has a density of 0.094 lbm/ft 3 at 100F and 2 atm. What pressure is needed to change
the density to 0.270 lbm/ft3 at 250F?
16. What is the efficiency of an Otto cycle with a compression ratio of 6:1 if the gas is air.
17. A mixture of air and gasoline is compressed in the cylinder of an automobile engine before
being ignited. Most of the automobile engines have a compression ratio of 9 to 1, this means that
the gas in cylinder is compressed 1/9 of its original volume. Find the final temperature of the
atmospheric air at 27C if after compression the pressure was found to be 21.7 atm?
18. A steam engine operating between boiler temperature of 220C and a condenser temperature
of 35C. the engine delivers 8 hp and the actual efficiency is 30% as of the carnot engine. What is
the actual efficiency of the engine?
19. To what temperature must a gas initially at 0C and atmospheric pressure be heated if its
volume is doubled while the pressure remains constant?
20. 1.36 kg of air is held at 6.89 kPa and 38C. Given that Rair = 88.89 J/kg-K, what is most nearly
the volume of the container?
21. What is most nearly the change in internal energy of 2.27 kg of oxygen gas when the
temperature changes from 38C to 49C? (c v = 0.658kJ/kg-K)
22. What is the resulting pressure when 400 g of air at 103.6 kPa and 93C is heated at constant
volume to 427C?
23. Gas is enclosed in a cylinder with a weighted piston as top boundary. The gas is heated and
expands from a volume of 0.04m3 to 0.10 m3 at a constant pressure of 200 kPa. Calculate the work
done by the system.
24. Nitrogen is expanded isentropically. Its temperature changes from 600K to 288K. Find the
pressure ratio (p1/p2).