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EH/JAN 2013/CHE433/483

UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA

FINAL EXAMINATION

COURSE

THERMODYNAMICS

COURSE CODE

CHE433/483

EXAMINATION

JANUARY 2013

TIME

3 HOURS

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
1.

This question paper consists of five (5) questions.

2.

Answer ALL questions in the Answer Booklet. Start each answer on a new page.

3.

Do not bring any material into the examination room unless permission is given by the
invigilator.
Please check to make sure that this examination pack consists of:
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the Question Paper

an Answer Booklet - provided by the Faculty
a thermodynamics Property Table - provided by the Faculty

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QUESTION 1
(P01,C01,C2,C4)
a) Define the following terms:
i)
ii)
iii)
iv)

Isochoric
Adiabatic
Control volume
Closed system
(8 marks)

b) An exam hall requires 20 incandescent lightings to meet the minimum requirement of

illumination during examination. Each lamp consumes 0.1 kW electricity. The lights are
kept on for the duration of the exam of 8 hours a day and 150 days a year.
i)

Determine the yearly energy cost of lighting for 5 similar exam halls if the unit
electricity cost is RM 0.075 kWh.

ii) Discuss the effect of the lighting to the air-conditioning requirement to keep the halls
temperature at 25C.
(7 marks)

QUESTION 2
(P02, C02, C2, C3, C3, C3)
a)

Steam in piston cylinder with a volume of 25 liters, is at a pressure of 1.4 MPa and
temperature of 350C. While the pressure is held constant, the volume is reduced and
35 kJ of heat is taken out of the cylinder.
i) Identify the new temperature of the steam in C.
(6 marks)
ii) Calculate the work involved in the described process in kJ/s.
(3 marks)
iii) The piston is now locked and further cooling is done until all the steam becomes
saturated vapor. Determine the final pressure of the steam in kPa.
(3 marks)

b) A closed cylinder is divided into two rooms by a frictionless piston held in place by a pin
as shown in Figure 1. Room A has 10L of air at 100 kPa, 30C and room B has 300 L of
saturated water vapor at 30C. The pin is pulled, releasing the piston, and both rooms
come to equilibrium at 30C and as the water is compressed it becomes two-phase.
Considering a control mass of the air and water, determine the work done by the system
and the heat transfer to the cylinder.
(10 marks)

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Figure 1 Closed cylinder

QUESTION 3
(P02, C02, C3, C4)
The management of FKK CHEMICAL PLANT has decided to utilize the waste heat that
being generated from gaseous combustion chamber which consist of air. Figure 2 shows
the waste-heat recovery system comprising of steam generator and a turbine being used to
produce in-house electricity. The discharges of gaseous combustion are at 480 K, 1 bar with
volume flowrate of 102 m3/s while leaving the steam generator at 400 K. The heat exchange
occurred when another stream that consist of water at 35 C and 0.3 MPa with mass
flowrate of 2.2 kg/s. At the exit of the turbine, the pressure is 0.7 bars with 93% of vapour.
Assume there is no significant pressure drops in all streams and the gaseous is an ideal gas.

From gaseous combustion chamber

Figure 2 Waste Heat Recovery System

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Determine the turbine inlet temperature in C.

(15 marks)

b)

Calculate the power developed by the turbine in kJ/s.

(5 marks)

c)

Determine the heat transfer rate (kJ/s) inside the steam generator.
(3 marks)

QUESTION 4
(P02, C03,C4,C5)
a) Funasonic Bhd is conducting a test on a newly designed air conditioner before it goes
into the market. During the test, the air-conditioning unit is set to cool a room at TL. The
maximum power input of the unit is 1.2 kW. At the same time, the room is gaining
energy (in kW) as Q = 0.6(TH -TL).

If the coefficient performance of the refrigeration

cycle of the unit (COPAC) is given as COPAC =0.6COPCamot, and TL= 20C determine
the maximum outside temperature, TH (in C) for which the air conditioner will provide
sufficient cooling.
(10 marks)

b) Identify whether the following statements are TRUE or FALSE. Justify your answer.
i)

Lowering the condenser pressure of an ideal Rankine cycle with fixed turbine
inlet conditions will not affect the amount of heat supplied to the cycle. (Use Ts diagram to support your answer)

ii)

The overall thermal efficiency of an ideal Rankine cycle will be increased if the
steam is superheated to a higher temperature. (Use T-s diagram to support
your answer)

iii)

In a simple ideal Rankine cyle with fixed turbine conditions and constant
power output, the mass flow rate of cooling water can be reduced by
increasing the steam generator pressure.
(9 marks)

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QUESTION 5
(P02, C03, C3,C4)
A Rankine cycle with a maximum temperature of 600C uses an 84% efficient turbine. The
turbine is operating between 4 MPa and 10 kPa. If the steam is reheated at 400 kPa to
400C and the steam mass flux is 10 kg/s:
a)

Sketch the cycle on a T-s coordinates.

(4 marks)

b)

Determine the cycle efficiency.

(12 marks)

c)

Calculate the mass flow rate of cooling water if it increases to 10C as it pass through
the condenser. (Take the specific heat of cooling water as 4.18 kJ/kg-K).
(5 marks)

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