RIC-T01 Sesden 2016-15 CI ‘S.Mo-14-09-14 i CI India’s Best Institute for IES, GATE & PSUs RANKIMPROVEMENT COURSE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING Test - 1 | Thermodynamics Duration : 2% Hours Maximum Marks: 150 Read the following instructions carefully Sectlon-A : Objective Questions Section-B : Conventional Questions Maximum Marka :80 © Tima: Hr Meximum Merks: 100 © Times: 1%Hrs. No. of Negative || 1 Candidate should attempt any FOUR quetions ou of uestions | TYPY | Maree | markcng Five, T 2, Eachaueetion cares 35 mats, at-to | Mca 10 0.33 || 3. Eachquestion may have two ar three sub cvslon. 4, The number of marks carta by each subalusion of a an-so| mea 40 ase ‘questonis indicated athe end of the question 5,_Anowers must be writen only In INGLIS Total Number of Questions : 30 Total Number of Quastiona :3 | ¢Alempt any FOUR] Objective Questions must be answered on Objective Response Sheet (ORS) by darkening the appropriate bubble (marked A, 8, C, D) using HB pencil against the question number. Each question has only one correct answer, In case you wish to change an answer, erase the old answer completely using a good soft eraser, 2, There will bea seperate answer sheet for Conventional questions, 3. Write your name & Roll No. at the specified locations on the right half of the ORS as well as conventional answer sheet re | Bhubaneswar 11-45124612, 9958995830MADE ERSY rts | noice | shops | ryerabad | pur | teow | indore | Bhubaneswar RICME14)| Eine ee ee QNo. 1 to Q.No. 10 carry 1 markeach 1. A gas expands rapidly. The process is approximately (@) ‘sobaric (6) adiabatic (b) isothermal (@) isovolumetric 2. The following diagram shows the variation with volume V of pressure P during one complete cycle of a heat engine The work done is represented by the area (a) A 8 (c) (B+A) (d) (B- A) 3. Assample of gas (y = 1.4) is taken through an adiabatic process in which the volume 's compressed from 2000 oc to 800 cc. If the initial pressure is 160 kPa, then how much will be the final pressure in the process? (@) 477kPa (0) S77kPa (6) 755kPa (a) 747 kPa 4, Which of the following are intensive properties? P. Energy Q. Volume R. Pressure S. Specific Enthalpy @ Ra (©) aR (RS Ps 5. Select the correct statement P. Ifa system would undergo a large change in properties when subjected to some small disturbances, it is said to ibe in metastable equilibrium. @. If a system would undergo a little change in properties when subjected to large disturbances, itis said to be in metastable equilibrium, he written permission. No part of this book may be renroduced ar ulisea in any form wihaw ‘opyriaht: Subject matter te MADE EASY, New Dein eo R. If we bring two systems together, intensive properties are summed up. S. If we bring tow systems together, extensive properties are summed up. @ PR ) QR Pa @PS Which two values of temperature are equivalent to the nearest degree when measured on the Fahrenheit scale and on the Celsius scales of temperature? Fahrenheit Scale | Celsius scale @) 590 313 © 22 700) © 100 40 @ 36 a The specific latent heat of vaporization of a substance is greater then its specitic latent heat of fusion because (@) boiling takes place at a higher temperature than metting (b) thermal energy is required to raise the temperature from the melting point to the boiling point (6) the volume of the substance decreases on freezing but increases when boiling (A) the increase in potential energy of the molecules is greater on boiling than on melting, The maximum power output of an engine operating between 640 °C and 60°C, ifthe heat input is 100 kd/s is (@) 60.5 kW (b) 56.5 KW (©) 63.5kW (a) 87.3 kW Which of the following seconc-law statement is WRONG? (@)_ The entropy of an isolated system must remain constant or increase (b) The entropy of a hot copper block decreases ast cools (6) fice is melted in water in an insulated container, the net entropy decrease (d) Work must be input if energy is transferred from a cold body to a hot body 2. + THERMODYNAMICS www.madeeasy.in | ©ceprah MADE ERSYGQ MADE ERSY tain) sc | shops Fderbad | per Lucow | Indore | Bhubaneswar RICME14)| 10, Select the WRONG statement about superheated stem (a) Superheated steam behaves like perfect and real gas with minimal error (b) The heat content of superheated steam is large and it does more work without increasing pressure drop (©) The high temperature of superheated steam always results in improved thermal efficiency (d) Itcan be expanded considerably to do work before i becomes wet QNNo. 11 to Q.No. 30 carry 2 marks each 11. Which of the following device is NOT possible? Heat source Heat source 600K 600K soKW soKW @) si (b) Bos Kw 5kw Tw 300K 300K Heat sink Heat sink Heat sink Heat sink 303.15 K 303.15 K se ‘kW ©) D1 @ esx 10KW 10KW 253°5K 253°5K Heat source Heat source 12. To a closed system, 150 kd of work is supplied. Ifthe initial volume is 0.6 m® and pressure of the system changes as P= 8 — 4Y, where Pis in bar and Vis in m®, what is the final pressure of the system? (@) 56a4bar ——(b) 6.548bar (0) 7.1S4bar —(d) 8.564bar é produced or utlleed in any form without th ofthis book may be "ASY, New Delhi. No p 0 MADE ° 13. A fluid at a pressure of a 3 bar, and with specific volume of 0.18 m*/kg, contained in a cylinder behind a piston expands reversibly toa pressure of 0.6 bar according c toa law, P= z,, where Cis a constant. Waat is the work done by the fluid on the piston? (@) 24.94 kuikg (0) 42.94 kuikg (b) 28.94 kdtkg (d) 29.84 kdtkg 14, A vessel having a capacity of 0.05 m* contains a mixture of saturated water and saturated steam at a temperature of 245 °C. The mass of the liquid present is 10 kg. ‘What is the enthalpy in kJ/kg? Use the following data: | Enthalpy (kik) te Specie volume (ka) (OT 1% |» | % 744.2|2801.7| 740.2|2801.5 7736.2|2801.4 P |van] i360 ise [sr EE 245 243:7| 057.6 061.4 1085.2 0.007238 o.00%239 0.001242] 0.0554 0.0546 0.0538 (a) 1172.77 (e) 1270.41 (b) 1127.7 (a) 1772.27 18. Ifacertain amount of steamis produced at a pressure of 8 bar and dryness fraction 0.8. What is the internal latent heat of steam? ALB bar: v, = 0.240 m%/kg; yg = 2046.5 kag (@) 18346k) ——(b) 1638.64) (©) 13846k) ——(@) 1483.6 kd 16. Fromthe folowing st, identily the propertios, which are equal in both vapur and liquid phases at equilrium P. Density Q. Temperature R. Enthalpy (@) PandR (0) Pony (c) QandR (@) Ronly 3. + THERMODYNAMICS www.madeeasy.in | ©ceprah MADE ERSYGQ MADE ERSY tain) sc | shops Fderbad | per Lucow | Indore | Bhubaneswar RICME14)| 17. Parameter ‘a’ and'b’ in the van der Waals cubic equation of state represent (a) a-molecular weight; b- molecular size (b) a-molecular size; b - molecular speed (c) a- molecular attraction; b - molecular momentum (d) a - molecular size; b - molecular attraction 18, The power developed by a turbine in a certain steam plant is 1400 kW. The heat supplied to the steam in the boiler is 3860 kJikg, the heat rejected by the system to ccosling water in the condenser is 2650 kJ kg and the fed pump work required to pump the condensate back into the boiler is 8 kW. What is the steam flow round the eycle is kgls? (@) 1.15 (©) 151 (©) 1.05 (d) 1.01 19. Inasteady-flow device, the inlet and outlet é produced or utlleed in any form without th 23. operates between the same 40°C reservoir and a reservoir at 18°C, The heat transfer to the heat engine is 2100 ki and there is a et work output of 370kJ trom the combined plant, The heat transfer to the reftigeratoris, (@) 4000 ks (b) 4100 ks (©) 4200 ks (a) 4300 ks For an inviscid frictionless fluid flowing through a pipe Vap+Va + gdz = 0 The equation is called (@) Eulerequation —(b) Stoke's equation (©) SFEE (a) Bernoulli equation where, V= volume: 7 = velocity, z= olovation; P= pressure Select the WRONG statement All spontaneous processes (a) are reversible (b) are accompanied by entropy generation (@) involve exergy loss conditions are given below. Whatis the heat | § lossigain by the system? ;| (@) terminate at the dead state 3| 24, Aneat engine is supplied with 1130 kW of S heat at a constant temperature of 292 °C £ and it rejects heat at 5 °C. The following 2 result were recorded: W= 750 KW 8 (834 kW heatis rejected [—rmaztkgs |= (il) $56 KW heatis rejected Tf Peressee ls (i) 278 KW heat is rejected aosam zr 0sm he2s4tkikg |S Which of the above case represent Datu var toms |2 impossible cycle? 2 (@) (and ti) ——() (and ti fn =2.1 kgs: P, = 1Obar:h, = 2827 kuikg | (©) (ionly (@) (i) only vy = 20 mis | 25. Heat transfer during polytropic compression (@) -250KW ——(b) + 256 KW process is given by (c) -263KW ——(@) + 263 KW : 20. What is the rate of 10 kg/s is compressed | 2 adiabatically om barto $0 barinasteady | 3 flow process. What is the power required | Z for this process? | (@) ~ 50 kW (b) + 50KW 8 (o) -45 kW (d) + 45 KW ° 21, Areversible heat engine operate between two reservoirs at 600 °C and 40 °C. The engine drives a reversible refrigerator which 4+ THERMODYNAMICS wwwimadeeasy.n | coro MADE EASYGQ MADE ERSY tain) sc | shops Fderbad | per Lucow | Indore | Bhubaneswar RICME14)| 26. A pure substance cannot remain in liquid phase if itis bolow (@) saturated vapour line (©) saturated liquid line (6) thetriple point (@) the critical state é 28. Aliquidis heated at approximately constant prossure from 20 °C to 80 °C by passing it through tubes which are immersed in a furnace. The furnace temperatures constant at 1500 °C. Assuming specific heat of liquid as 6.3 kJ/kg K, the effectiveness of the heating process when the atmospheric 27. An isolated system consists of two solid “ mperature is 15°C would be blocks. One block has a mass of 5 kg and eee os intially at 00 °C. The other blockamass | ¢ © ot326 (@) 01068 of 10kg andis initially at-50 °C. The blocks | = are allowed to come into thermal equilibrium. | 2| 29, 1kg of water at 0°C is brought into contact Assuming the blocks to be incompressible a with a heat reservoir at 90° C. What is the with constant specific heats of 1.0 and 0.4 | 8 entropy change of the universe when water. kJ/kg K respectively, What is the | 8| has reached 90°C ? irreversibility ? Take T, = 27 °C. £ (@ OS1S kK — (b) 0.511 kuIK (@) 274.64 8] 0188 KK — (a) 0.115 KK ) oerow 5] 80. Two identical rite bodies of constant heat (a) 276.9 kJ 2 capacity at 900 K and 400 K are available 2 to do work in a heat engine. The final a temperature T, reached by the bodies on s delivery of maximum work would be = (a) T,= 650K (b) T,= 600K 5 (© 1,-s00k 2 ——— End of Section - A —— 8 5 + THERMODYNAMICS worwimadeeasyin | cpa MADE EASEMADE ERSY cris | noice | shops | Hyena | apy | teow | indore | Bhubaneswar |RICMET4| Eine on Gace (Answer any FOUR out of FIVE) Q.1 (a) (i) 0.5 m* of gas at 10 kPa and 130 °C expands adiabatically to 1 kPa, itis then isothermally compressed to its original volume. Represent these processes on P-Vdiagram. Find final temperature and pressure of gas. Take C, = 1.005 kuikgK and C, = 0.718 kJ/kg [8 Marks} + compression work to be minimum, what should be process of compression? Is it used inpractice? Explain [5 Marks} (b) An imaginary engine receives heat and does work on a slowly moving piston at such rates that the cycle of operation of 1 kg of working fluid can be represented as a circle 10 cmin diameter ona P-Vdiagram on which 1 cm = 300 kPa and 1 cm -0.1 m?%kg, (i) Determine how much work is done by each kg of working fluid for each cycle of operation (ii) Ifthe heat rejected by the engine in a cycle is 1000 ki per kg of working fluid, find the thermal efficiency of the engine. [12 Marks] Q.2 (a) The following expressions for the equations of stale and the specific heat Cp are obeyed by a certain gas BT oe v= ptal® and C,= A+ BT+ Cp where, «, A, B, Care con: (ii) the specific heat C,, nt, Obtain an expression for (i) the Joule-Thomson coefficient and [15 Marks] (b) Energyis received by a solar collector at the rate of 300 kW from a source temperature of 2400 K. If60 KW of this energy is lost to the surrounding at steady state and if the user temperature remains constant at 600 K, what are the first law and the second law efficiencies? Take T, = 300 K. [10 Marks} Q.3 (a) Inanadiabatic throtting process, energy per unit mass of enthalpy remains the same. However, there is loss of energy. An ideal gas flowing at the rate 1 is throtiled from pressure P, to pressure P, when the environments al temperature T,. What is the rate of exergy loss due to throttling? [10 Marks] esgsne OE - O) Sic [ po 70°C Cold water (Cp= fe kujkg “C) leading to a shower enters a well-insulated, thin-walled, double- pipe, counter-flow exchanger at 10°C ata rate of 0.95 kg/s and is heated to 70 °C by hot water (Cp = 4.19 kulkg °C) that enters at 85 °C at a rate of 1.6 kg/s. What is the rate of entropy generation in the heat exchanger? [15 Marks] THERMODYNAMICS www.madeeasy.in | ©ceprah MADE ERSYMADE ERSY cris | noice | shops | Hyena | apy | teow | indore | Bhubaneswar |RICMET4| Q.4 (a) An insulated rigid tank contains 4 kg of argon gas at 450 kPa and 30 °C. A valve is now ‘opened, and argon is allowed to escape unti the pressure inside drops to 200 kPa, Argon kg 45082 30°C Assuming the argon remaining inside the tank has undergone a reversible, adiabatic process, determine the final mass in the tank, [10 Marks] (b) The heat capacity of a system at constant volume is given by C, = 0.045 T2 A system is originally at 250 K and a thermal reservoir at 126 K is available. Determine the maximum amount of work that can be recovered as the system is cooled down to the temperature of the [15 Marks] Q.5 (a) Aninitially deflated and flat ballon is connected by a valve to a 12m? storage tank containing Helium gas at 2 MPa and ambient temperature at 20°C. The valve is opened and the balloon is inflated at constant pressure, P, = 100 KPa, equal to ambient pressure, unti it becomes spherical at D, = 1 m. Ifthe ballon is larger than this, the ballon material is stretched giving a pressure inside as Po D.) Dy Prac 1+2} 3 The balloon is inflated to a final diameter of 4m, at which point the pressure is 400 kPa. The temperature remains constant at 20°C, what is the maximum pressure inside the balloon at any time during this inflation process? What is the pressure inside the helium storage at this time? Take, R= 2.071 kuikg-K] [15 Marks] Q5 (b) A balloon behaves such that the pressure inside is proportional to the diameter squared. It conlains 2 kg of ammonia al 0°C, 60% quality. The balloon and ammonia are now heated so that a final pressure of 600 kPa is reached. Considering the ammonia as a control mass, find the amount of work done in the process. At O°C, V, = 0.001566 m*kg, V,, = 0.28783 mY%/kg and P= 429.3 kPa. [10 Marks] —— End of Paper For Answer key and Detailed Solutions, visit : www.madeeasy.in 7 + THERMODYNAMICS www.madeeasy.in | ©ceprah MADE ERSY