CIT – UNIVERSITY MECHANICAL ENGINEERING ME COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION COURSE 3 DAILY EXAM 04– THERMODYNAMIC CYCLES SET B 1

1. In Stirling engine, the heat is added during B. Combustion chamber D. recuperator* B. 73.12 hp D. 148 hp
A. Isothermal process* C. isobaric process
B. Isometric process D. isentropic process 12. The efficiency of an ideal Otto cycle is 40%. What is the hot air value of 22. To measure the clearance between the valve and tappet of an automobile
k, if the compression ratio is 6.2? engine, we use a:
2. A heat engine receives hat from a source at 1200 K at a rate of 500 KJ/s A. 1.28* C. 1.25 A. Vernier scale C. pneumatic gauge
and rejects the waste heat to a medium at 276 K. The power output of the B. 1.38 D. 1.35 B. Feeler gauge* D. slip gauge
heat engine is 180 KW. Determine the irreversibility rate for this process.
A. 190 KW C. 200 KW 13. In an air standard Otto cycle, the clearance volume is 12 % of the 23. An ideal Ericsson engine using helium (cp = 1.25 Btu/lbm-R, R = 0.4961
B. 195 KW D. 205 KW* displacement volume. What is the thermal efficiency? Btu/lbm-R) as the working fluid operates between temperature limits of
A. 57% C. 58% 550 and 3000 R and pressure limits of 25 and 200 psia. Assuming a mass
3. Air standard efficiency of an Otto cycle depends on B. 59%* D. 60% flow rate of 14 lbm/s, determine the thermal efficiency of the cycle.
A. speed C. fuel amount A. 61.87% C. 81.67%*
B. fuel thermal energy D. compression ratio* 14. Which of the following does not belong to the group? B. 76.18% D. 67.18%
A. Stirling Cycle C. Ericsson Cycle
4. In an air-standard Otto cycle, air enters at 104.7 kPa and 27 C. The B. Carnot Power Cycle D. Otto cycle* 24. Exhaust stroke of gasoline engine is also known as
compression ratio is 7:1. If the net wrk of the cycle is 120 kJ/kg, what is A. Supercharging C. scavenging*
the heat supplied? 15. What must be the temperature in °F at which heat is supplied to a Carnot B. Choking D. knocking
A. 122.88 kJ/kg C. 221.88 kJ/kg* engine if twice as much energy is delivered as work as rejected to the sink
B. 188.22 kJ/kg D. 288.12 kJ/kg at 50°F? 25. An engine operates on the air-standard Otto cycle. The cycle work is 1000
A. 1040 °F C. 1650°F kJ/kg. What is the compression ratio of the engine if the maximum cycle
5. The indicator used to determine the anti-knock characteristics of gasoline. B. 1070 °F* D. 1560°F temperature is 3173K and the temperature at the end of isentropic
A. Aniline point C. Cetane number compression is 773K.
B. Octane number* D. Diesel index 16. Two-stroke engine performs _______ to complete one cycle. A. 6.85 C. 8.85*
A. suction and discharge stroke B. 7.85 D. 9.85
6. The stroke of a gas engine which works on the constant volume cycle is B. power and exhaust stroke
450 mm. The pressure at the beginning of the compression is 1.01 bar C. compression and power stroke* 26. When four events take place in one revolution of a crankshaft of an
and at the end of the compression it is 11.1bar. Assuming compression D. suction and exhaust stroke engine, the engine is called:
follows the law PV1.36=C, calculate the clearance between the piston and A. Gasoline engine C. two-stroke engine*
cylinder cover at the end of compression in mm of length. 17. A Carnot cycle operates between the temperatures limits of 300 K and B. Diesel engine D. four-stroke engine
A. 73.26 mm C. 93.26 mm* 2000 K, and produces 600 kW of net power. The rate of entropy change
B. 83.26 mm D. 103.26 mm of the working fluid during the heat addition process is 27. Helium gas in an ideal Otto cycle is compressed from 20°C and 2.5 L to
A. 0 C. 0.261 kW/K 0.25 L, and its temperature increases by an additional 700°C during the
7. In a spark ignition engine, the detonation occurs near the ______. B. 0.300 kW/K D. 0.353 kW/K* heat addition process. The temperature of helium before the expansion
A. end of combustion* C. middle of combustion process is
B. beginning of combustion D. beginning of interaction 18. Otto cycle consists of: A. 620°C C. 1790°C*
A. Two isentropic and two constant volume processes* B. 1240°C D. 2060°C
8. In a Carnot cycle engine, the volume of helium after adiabatic B. Two isentropic and two constant pressure processes
compression is 23.8% of that before the compression. The sink C. Two adiabatic and two isothermal processes 28. Detonation of pinging noise is due to:
temperature is 30°C. Determine the thermal efficiency. D. Two isothermal and two isentropic processes A. Early timing of fuel injection C. head of piston carbonized
A. 60.7% C. 61.6%* B. Late timing of fuel injection* D. valve springs weak or broken
B. 62.7% D. 63.7% 19. In an ideal Otto cycle, air is compressed from 1.20 kg/m3 and 2.2 L to
0.26 L, and the net work output of the cycle is 440 kJ/kg. The mean 29. A Carnot cycle is represented by a rectangle in a T-s diagram that
9. A fictitious pressure which determines the approximate value of power to effective pressure (MEP) for this cycle is operates between temperature limits of 300K and 650K. Inscribed within
be produced by a certain heat engine. A. 367 kPa C. 416 kPa a rectangle is a triangle with based coincides with the sink temperature
A. Indicated mean effective pressure B. 599 kPa* D. 612 kPa and the triangle apex with the source temperature. Considering that the
B. Brake mean effective pressure base of the triangle is three times that of its altitude. Determine the
C. Mean effective pressure* 20. Which is not correct for calculating air-standard efficiency? thermal efficiency of the cycle represented by a triangle.
D. Engine mean effective pressure A. All processes are reversible A. 44.88% C. 36.84%*
B. Specific heat remains unchanged at all temperatures B. 43.66% D. 34.68%
10. The compression ratio of an engine working on the constant volume cycle C. No account of the mechanism off heat transfer is considered
is 9.3 to 1. At the beginning of compression the temperature is 31C and D. Gases dissociate at higher temperatures* 30. In a gasoline engine cycle, the heat is added during
at the end of combustion is 1205C. Taking the compression and A. Isothermal process C. isobaric process
expansion to adiabatic and k as 1.4. What is the thermal efficiency? 21. A 4 liter (2-liter per revolution at standard pressure and temperature) B. Isometric process* D. isentropic process
A. 54.02% C. 58.02% spark ignition engine has a compression ratio of 8 and 2200 kJ/kg heat
B. 56.02% D. 59.02%* addition by the fluid combustion. Considering a cold air-standard otto ---NOTHING FOLLOWS---
cycle model, how much power will the engine produce when operating at
11. The heat exchanger used in an Ericsson cycle is 2500 rpm?
A. Regenerator C. intercooler A. 166.53 hp * C. 97.4 hp

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