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Moving Boundary Work Calculations

1. The document describes 9 moving boundary work problems involving gases and liquids in piston cylinder systems undergoing compression, expansion or heat transfer processes. The problems involve calculating work, determining final states, plotting processes on P-V diagrams, and determining heat transfer. 2. Key variables include initial and final pressure, volume, temperature and states (liquid, gas, quality etc.) as well as spring constants, piston areas and mass flows between systems. Processes described include polytropic, isothermal compression and phase changes. 3. Solutions require applying the first law of thermodynamics, gas laws, equations of state and thermodynamic tables and relations between variables.

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Moving Boundary Work Calculations

1. The document describes 9 moving boundary work problems involving gases and liquids in piston cylinder systems undergoing compression, expansion or heat transfer processes. The problems involve calculating work, determining final states, plotting processes on P-V diagrams, and determining heat transfer. 2. Key variables include initial and final pressure, volume, temperature and states (liquid, gas, quality etc.) as well as spring constants, piston areas and mass flows between systems. Processes described include polytropic, isothermal compression and phase changes. 3. Solutions require applying the first law of thermodynamics, gas laws, equations of state and thermodynamic tables and relations between variables.

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MOVING BOUNDARY WORK PROBLEMS

1. A mass of 2.4 kg of air at 150 kPa and 12°C is contained in a gas-tight, frictionless piston
cylinder device. The air is now compressed to a final pressure of 600 kPa. During process,
heat is transferred from the air such that the temperature inside the cylinder remains
constant. Calculate the work input during this process.

2. A frictionless piston – cylinder device initially contains 200 L of saturated liquid refrigerant
134a. The piston is free to move, and its mass is such that it maintains a pressure of 800
kPa on the refrigerant. The refrigerant is now heated until its temperature rises to 50°C.
Calculate the work done during this process.

3. A nitrogen gas goes through a polytropic process with n=1.3 in a piston/cylinder. It starts
out at 600 K, 600 KPa and ends at 800 K. Is the work positive, negative, or zero?

4. A piston/cylinder assembly contains 1Kg of liquid water at 20 °C and 300 kPa, as show in
figure. There is linear spring mounted on the piston such that when the water is heated, the
pressure reaches 3 MPa with a volume of 0.1 m3.

a. find the final temperature.


b. plot the process in a P-v diagram.
c. find the work in the process

5. A cylinder having a piston restrained by a linear spring (of spring constant 15 kN/m)
contains 0.5 .kg of saturated vapor water at 120°C, as shown in figure. Heat is transferred
to the water, causing the piston to rise. If the piston's cross-sectional area is 0.05 m2 and
the pressure varies linearly with volume until a final pressure of 500 kPa is reached, find
the final temperature in the cylinder and the heat transfer for the process.
6. A balloon behaves such that the pressure inside is proportional to the diameter squared.
It contains 2 Kg of ammonia at 0 °C, with 60% quality. The balloon and ammonia are
now heated so that a final pressure of 600 kPa is reached. Considering the ammonia as
a control mass, find the amount of work done during the process.

7. The piston/cylinder arrangement shown in figure contains carbon dioxide at 300 kPa and
100 °C with a volume of 0.2 m3. Weights are added to the piston such that the gas
compresses according to the relation PV1.2= constant to a final temperature of 200 °C.
Determine the work done during the process.

Po

CO2 g

8. A balloon behaves so that the pressure is P= C2V1/3 and C2= 100 kPa/m. The balloon is
blown up whit air from a starting volume of 1 m3 to a volume of 3 m3. Find the final mass of air,
assuming it is at 25 °C and the work done by the air.

9. A 400-L tank, a (see figure), contains argon gas at 250 kPa and 30 °C. Cylinder B, having a
frictionless piston of such mass that a pressure of 150 kPa will float it, is initially empty. The
valve is opened, and argon flows into B and eventually reaches a uniform state of 150 kPa and
30 C throughout. What is the work done by the argon?

Po

A B

Argon

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