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Thermodynamics Exercises and Solutions

This document contains 15 thermodynamics problems involving concepts such as diffusers, nozzles, compressors, turbines, heat exchangers, and steam separators. The problems require calculating thermodynamic properties such as pressure, temperature, velocity, mass flow, and power for various processes and thermodynamic systems described.

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Thermodynamics Exercises and Solutions

This document contains 15 thermodynamics problems involving concepts such as diffusers, nozzles, compressors, turbines, heat exchangers, and steam separators. The problems require calculating thermodynamic properties such as pressure, temperature, velocity, mass flow, and power for various processes and thermodynamic systems described.

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ADA 13 - RESOLUTION OF EXERCISES

THERMODYNAMICS
Group: C

Professor: HÉCTOR ADRÍAN PACHECO MARTÍNEZ


Alumno: CARLA ANDREA DOMÍNGUEZ RIVERA

Fecha de entrega: 18/Dic./2020


5.34 The diffuser of a jet engine must lower the kinetic energy of the air that
enter the engine compressor, without heat or work interactions. Calculate the
speed at the exit of a diffuser, when air enters it at 100 kPa and 20 °C, with
a speed of 500 m/s, and the outlet state is 200 kPa and 90 °C.
5.44 Water vapor enters a nozzle at 400 °C and
800 kPa, with a speed of 10 m/s, and exits at 300
°C and 200 kPa, while losing heat at a rate of
25 kW. For an entry area of 800 cm2,
determine the velocity and the volumetric flow rate of the
water vapor at the nozzle outlet.
An adiabatic air compressor processes 10 L/s at 120 kPa
at 20 °C, up to 1000 kPa and 300 °C. Determine a) the work that
requires the compressor, in kJ/kg, and b) the power needed to
to boost it, in kW.
5.52 A steady flow passes through an adiabatic turbine
of water vapor. The initial conditions of the vapor are
10 MPa, 450 °C and 80 m/s at the inlet, and at the outlet are
10 kPa, 92 percent quality and 50 m/s. The mass flow
the steam is 12 kg/s. Determine a) the change in energy
kinetics, b) the power developed by the turbine and c) the
turbine inlet area.
5.63 Sometimes, a portion is separated from
water vapor that passes through a turbine
to heat feed water, like
It can be seen in the figure. Consider a turbine.
adiabatic steam, with the inlet at 12.5
MPa and 550 °C, and a flow of 20 kg/s. It
extract steam from the turbine at 1000 kPa and 200
°C, at a rate of 1 kg/s. The water vapor
remaining exits the turbine at 100 kPa and 100
°C. Determine the power produced by
this turbine.
5.70 The flow of refrigerant 134A, at 800 kPa and 25 °C, is throttled to a
temperature of -20 °C. Determine the pressure and the internal energy of the refrigerant in
the final state.
5.78 A flow of hot water at 80 °C enters a
blending chamber at a rate of 0.5 kg/s, and is
mix with a flow of cold water at 20 °C. It is desired
that the mixture comes out of the chamber at 42 °C. Calculate
the mass flow of cold water. Assume that all the
Flows are at a pressure of 250 kPa.
5.84 A capacitor of a thermal power plant enters
steam at 20 kPa and 95 percent quality, with a flow
from a mass of 20,000 kg/h. It will be cooled with water from a
nearby river, passing it through the pipes located in the
interior of the condenser. To avoid contamination
thermal, the river water should not have an increase of
temperature above 10 °C. If the steam must exit from the
condenser as saturated liquid at 20 kPa,
determine the mass flow rate of the cooling water
required.
5.87 A tube heat exchanger
thin-walled concentric, counterflow,
it is used to cool oil (Cp2.20 kJ/kg °C) of
150 at 40 °C, at a rate of 2 kg/s, using water
(Cp4.18 kJ/kg °C), which enters at 22 °C, to a
rate of 1.5 kg/s. Determine the rate of
heat transfer in the exchanger and the
water outlet temperature.
5.104 The components of an electronic system,
which dissipates 180 W, are inside a horizontal duct
1.4 m long, with a cross-section of
20 cm x 20 cm. The components cool down in the
duct through forced air that enters at 30 °C and 1
atm, with a flow of 0.6 m3and it comes out at 40 °C.
Determine the heat transfer rate of the
external surfaces of the duct to the environment.
5.117 An insulated pipe has steam entering at 200 kPa and 200 °C, and exiting at 150 °C.
The relationship of input to output diameters for that pipe is D1/ D2= 1.80.
Determine the inlet and outlet speeds of the steam.
5.153 A steam turbine operates with water vapor at 1.6 MPa
at 350 °C at its inlet, and saturated steam at 30 °C at its outlet. The
The steam mass flow rate is 16 kg/s and the turbine produces 9000 kW.
of power. Determine the rate at which heat is lost through
from the casing of that turbine.
5.177 In a steam separator of R-134a, at
constant pressure, of a wet steam,
separate liquid and vapor into two separate streams.
Determine the necessary flow power for
to pass 3 L/s of R-134a at 200 kPa and 70 degrees
one hundred percent quality for that unit. What are
mass flow rates, in kg/s, of two flows that
Are they going out?
5.186 An adiabatic air compressor is going to
to operate by an adiabatic steam turbine
directly coupled with the compressor and that
is also operating a generator. The steam
enters the turbine at 12.5 MPa and 500 °C at a rate of
25 kg/s, it exits at 10 kPa and a quality of 0.92. The
Air enters the compressor at 98 kPa and 295 K.
of 10 kg/s, and exits at 1 MPa and 620 K. Determine the net power supplied to
generator by the turbine.

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