Coimbatore Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore-641 109

Department of Mechanical Engineering

INTERNAL TEST II (RETEST)
Engineering Thermodynamics
B.E., Mechanical Engineering-A section.
PART A
1. State Carnots therom.(AU. Oct02)
2. Define entropy. (AU. Apr05)
3. Define PMM of second kind(MU Apr99)
4. What are the disadvantages of reheating?
5. Define latent heat of evaporation or Enthalpy of evaporation.
PART B
1. A heat engine is used to drive a heat pump. The heat transfer from the heat engine from the heat pump
is used to heat the water circulating through the radiations of building. The efficiency of the heat
engine is 27% and COP of the heat pump is 4 (i) Draw the neat diagram of the arrangement and (ii)
evaluate the ratio of heat transfer to the circulating water to the heat transfer to the heat engine.
(Oct95)
(OR)
2. 5 kg of air at 2 bar and 30 C is compressed to 24 bar pressure according to the law pV 1.2= Constant.
0

After compression air is cooled at constant volume to 30 0C. Determine, (i) Volume and temperature at
the end of compression,(ii) Change of entropy during compression,(iii) Change in entropy during
constant volume cooling. Take Cp=1.005kJ/kg K, Cv=0.718kJ/kg K. (Dec01)
3. 3. A steam power plant uses steam at boiler pressure of 150bar and temperature 550 0C with reheat at
40bar and 5500C at condenser pressure of 0.1bar. Find the quality of steam at steam at turbine exhaust,
cycle efficiency and the steam rate. (Apr04)
(OR)
4. A steam boiler generates steam at 30bar , 300 0C at the rate of a 2kg/s. This steam is expanded
isentropically in a turbine to a condenser pressure of 0.05bar, condensered at constant pressure and
pumped back to boiler.
a. Draw the schematic arrangement of the above plant and T-s diagram of Rankine Cycle.
b. Find heat supplied in the boiler per hour.
c. Determine the quality of steam after expansion.
d. What is the power generated by the turbine?
e. Estimate the Rankine efficiency considering pump work.(Apr04)
5. A steam power plant works between 40 bar and 0.05 bar. If the steam supplied is dry saturated and the
cycle of operation is Rankine, find the Cycle efficiency
(OR)
6. One kg of ice at -50C is exposed to the atmosphere which is at 20 0c. The ice melts and comes into
thermal equilibrium with the atmosphere (i) Determine the entropy increase of the turbine. (ii) What is
the maximum amount of work necessary to convert the water back to ice at -5 0C? assume Cd for ice as
2.093mkJ/kg k and the latent heat of fusion of ice as 333.3kJ/kg.

V.SURESHKANNAN, AP II, MECH

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