Many of the students are asking abt questions related to the pressure cooker as being asked in the BARC

interview. I am trying here to explain it.. and the queries regarding the same can be aske d in the comments... 1). An ordinary Pressure cooker used in Indian homes operates at around 2.01 bar absolute or 1 bar gauge pressure (taking Patm=1.01 bar ) ..corresponding to water saturation temp. of 121 degree Celsius. 2). Now let us say that when we close the lid of the cooker after keeping food i nside it with water at the room temp. let us say 25 degree Celsius.. now with the rate of heat supply from the heat source being constant... the tem perature starts rising. Now let us try to plot T-s diagram for the same.... taking temp. on the vertical axis and the entropy on the horizontal axis.... a). First of all let us draw 2 constant pressure lines of 1.01 bar and 2.01 bar on the diagram. b). the starting point for the process will be 25 degree celsius and 1.01 bar. c). The temp. of water will start increasing...but also since there was some air trapped inside the cooker hence the air will expand and the pressure will also increase though slightly.... now as the temp reaches 100 degree inside the water will not start boiling as the pressure has increased above 1.01 bar due to expansion of air..... now let us say the air expands and pressure inside becomes 1.1 bar so the boiling point at this pressure (absolute) is 102 degree celsius and henc e at this temp the water will start boiling nd turning into steam. d) Let us make a point on the saturated liquid curve at 102 degree Celsius and 1 .1 bar pressure.. now the first portion of the graph will be moving from 25 degree celsius 1.01 b ar to this point. this will be the point where boiling will start. e). Now as the water starts to boil the steam is formed rapidly and the pressure inside the cooker increases.... now as the presure increases the saturation temp also increases... so the process from the point "2" which we marked on the saturated liquid curve will be complicated.... the presure will keep on rising till the presure reaches the limit of the cooker let us say 2.01 bar... and the whistle of the cooker rises to release the pressure. f). Let us mark a third point with pressure 2.01 bar inside the wet region and l et us say a dryness fraction of .05 (temperature be3ing 121 degree celsius)... the process frm the 2nd point to this "3rd" point will be a complicated one and can be represented by a curve going from 2nd point to 3rd point. g). now assuming that the whistle, which acts as a valve maintains a constant pr essure of 2.01 bar inside the cooker..... in the further process the temp. or the presure does not increase and we move o n a horizontal line as more and more water changes to steam.. the dryness fraction will increase and we will be moving on a horizontal line fo r the further process...... reaching the saturated vapour curve when all the water turns into staem ..which do not happen in normal cooking.. the normal cookin stops some where very close to the saturated liquid curve. 3). the food is cooked faster as with increased temp. the heat transfer rate fro m water to food increases.. and also pressure helps in beter and fastre heat penetration inside the food. NOte: it took me an hour to type this.. so pls try to understand and think it in detail before asking any question. Also draw the P-V diagram ur self.

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