UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA

FACULTAD DE INGENIERA
DEPARTAMENTO DE INGENIERA QUMICA

SITUATIONS TO ANALYZE - TERMODINMICA I IQU 700
PROFESSOR: MAURICIO ESTEBAN SNCHEZ; SEMESTER 2011-1

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Problems analysis and Equations Of State (EOS)
Discuss and write any question you have about those situations in order to analyze it in the class
1. What pressure, a 0.16 m
3
vessel should be filled with 42 kg of ethylene, in order to get a
temperature of 40C?

2. A tank is filled with3 moles of n-pentane at 60 bar and 285C. Determine the deviation
percentaje for volume calulation compare with an ideal gas for each of the equations: virial,
compressibility factor (2 and 3 parameters), Peng_Robinson, Soave Redlich Kwong and Patel-
Teja. Compare against Peng Robinson equation. What is the tank volume in liters?

3. What is an uncompressible substance.? Explain it in a phase diagram.

4. An open end mercurial manometer
shown below in the figure is connected
to a gas tank. The mercury meniscus in
the left leg of the manometer is
opposite 33.8 cm on the meter stick; in
the right leg it is opposite 16.2 cm.
Atmospheric pressure is 747 mm Hg.
Find the pressure of the gas.


5. A piston weighs 4.3 kg and has a cross sectional area of 450 mm
2
. Determine the pressure that
is exerted by this piston on the gas in the chamber. If the gas is water, what is it saturation
temperature?

6.
A pressure cooker has the lid screwed on tight.
A small opening with A = 0.0075 in
2
is covered
with a petcock that can be lifted to let steam
escape. How much mass should the petcock
have to allow boiling at 250F with an outside
atmosphere at 15 psia? If the cooker volume is
6L and is charged with 1.0 kg of water, how
much water has to be evaporated?



7. En nuestro pas se viene adelantando un programa de masificacin de gas natural dentro del
cual se fomenta la conversin de los vehculos de gasolina a gas natural (GNV); para tal
propsito debe implementarse un nuevo tanque para almacenar el metano a alta presin. Si
se sabe que 140 ft
3
de metano a 60F y 1.0 atm de presin equivale a 1.0 galn de gasolina,
cual ser el volumen del tanque requerido para almacenar un equivalente a 10 galones de
gasolina como gas natural a 3000 psia en Medelln?
UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA
FACULTAD DE INGENIERA
DEPARTAMENTO DE INGENIERA QUMICA

SITUATIONS TO ANALYZE - TERMODINMICA I IQU 700
PROFESSOR: MAURICIO ESTEBAN SNCHEZ; SEMESTER 2011-1

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8. A spherical helium balloon of 30 ft in diameter is at ambient T and P, 60 F and 14.69 psia.
How much helium does it contain? It can lift a total mass that equals the mass of
displaced atmospheric air. How much mass of the balloon fabric and cage can then be
lifted?

9. A substance is at 70F and 300 lbf/in
2
in a 10 ft
3
tank. Estimate the mass from the
compressibility chart if the substance is a) air, b) butane or c) propane. Discuss.

10.
Air in a car tires a -10Cand 2 bar. After
the car is driven for some miles the
temperature rises to 12C. What is the
new pressure?. Make your own
assumptions.

11.
A two-phase liquidvapor mixture of H2O with an
initial quality of 25% is contained in a pistoncylinder
assembly as shown. The mass of the piston is 40 kg,
and its diameter is 10 cm. The atmospheric pressure
of the surroundings is 1 bar. The initial and final
positions of the piston are shown on the diagram. As
the water is heated, the pressure inside the cylinder
remains constant until the piston hits the stops. Heat
transfer to the water continues until its pressure is 3
bar. Friction between the piston and the cylinder wall
is negligible. Determine the total amount of heat
transfer, in J.


12.
One kilogram of air, initially at 5 bar, 350 K, and 3
kg of carbon dioxide (CO
2
), initially at 2 bar, 450 K,
are confined to opposite sides of a rigid, well-
insulated container. The partition is free to move
and allows conduction from one gas to the other
without energy storage in the partition itself. The
air and carbon dioxide each behave as ideal gases.
Determine the final equilibrium temperature, in K,
and the final pressure, in bar, assuming constant
specific heats.