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Energy Balance in Closed Systems

The document contains a tutorial for a chemical engineering course focused on energy balance in closed systems. It includes four questions that involve calculations related to heat transfer, work done by gases, and energy changes in various thermodynamic processes. The problems require applying principles of thermodynamics to determine internal energy changes, net work done, and work done in a steam power cycle.

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Energy Balance in Closed Systems

The document contains a tutorial for a chemical engineering course focused on energy balance in closed systems. It includes four questions that involve calculations related to heat transfer, work done by gases, and energy changes in various thermodynamic processes. The problems require applying principles of thermodynamics to determine internal energy changes, net work done, and work done in a steam power cycle.

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CET260S Tutorial 6 – Energy balance closed systems

Question 1

A cylinder fitted with a movable piston is filled with gas. An amount of 2.00 kcal of heat is
transferred to the gas to raise the gas temperature 100°C higher. The gas does 68 J of work
in moving the piston to its new equilibrium position. Calculate the change in internal energy
of the system

Question 2

A fluid contained in a piston-cylinder device receives 500 kJ of electrical work as the gas
expands against the piston and does 600 kJ of boundary work on the piston. What is the net
work done by the fluid?

Question 3
A system receives 5 kJ of heat transfer and experiences a decrease in energy in the amount
of 5 kJ. Determine the amount of work done by the system.

Question 4
A steam power plant operates on a thermodynamic cycle in which water circulates through a
boiler, turbine, condenser, pump, and back to the boiler. For each kilogram of steam (water)
flowing through the cycle, the cycle receives 2000 kJ of heat in the boiler, rejects 1500 kJ of
heat to the environment in the condenser, and receives 5 kJ of work in the cycle pump.
Determine the work done by the steam in the turbine, in kJ/kg.

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