Fayoum University Thermodynamics

Faculty of Engineering 2015-2016

Industrial and Electrical Dep. Sheet (4)
1. Heat is transferred to a heat engine from a furnace at a rate of 80 MW. If the
rate of waste heat rejection to a nearby river is 50 MW, determine the net
power output and the thermal efficiency for this heat engine?
2. A car engine with a power output of 65 hp has a thermal efficiency of 24
percent. Determine the fuel consumption rate of this car if the fuel has a
heating value of 19,000 Btu/lbm (that is, 19,000 Btu of energy is released for
each lbm of fuel burned)
3. A cyclic heat engine operates between a source temperature of 800C and a
sink temperature of 30C. What is the least rate of heat rejection per kW net
output of the engine?
4. A domestic food freezer maintains a temperature of 15C. The ambient air
temperature is 30C. If heat leaks into the freezer at the continuous rate of 1.75
kJ/s what is the least power necessary to pump this heat out continuously.
5. An inventor claims to have developed a refrigerator that maintains the
refrigerated space at 35F while operating in a room where the temperature is
75F and that has a COP of 13.5. Is this claim reasonable?
6. A heat engine is supplied heat at the rate of 1700 kJ/min and gives an output of
9 kW. Determine the thermal efficiency and the rate of heat rejection.
7. A Carnot cycle operates between source and sink temperatures of 260C and
17.8C. If the system receives 100 kJ from the source, find (i) efficiency of the
system, (ii) the net work transfer, (iii) heat rejected to the sink.
8. Source A can supply energy at a rate of 11000 kJ/min at 320C. A second
source B can supply energy at a rate of 110000 kJ/min at 68C. Which source
A or B, would you choose to supply energy to an ideal reversible engine that is
to produce large amount of power if the temperature of the surroundings is
40C ?
9. A geothermal power plant uses geothermal water extracted at 160C at a rate of
440 kg/s as the heat source and produces 22 MW of net power. If the
environment temperature is 25C, determine (a) the actual thermal efficiency,
(b) the maximum possible thermal efficiency,
(c) the actual rate of heat rejection from this power plant.
10. Air at 15C and 1.05 bar occupies 0.02 m3. The air is heated at constant
volume until the pressure is 4.2 bar, and then cooled at constant pressure back
to the original temperature. Calculate the net heat flow to or from the air and
the net entropy change. Sketch the process on a T-s diagram.
11. 0.03 m3 of nitrogen contained in a cylinder behind a piston is initially at
1.05 bar and 15C. The gas is compressed isothermally and reversibly until the
pressure is 4.2 bar. Calculate the change of entropy, the heat flow, and the
work done, and sketch the process on a p-v and T-s diagrams. Assume nitrogen
to act as a perfect gas. Molecular weight of nitrogen = 28.