PROBLEM-4 (50%) One kg of air is in a piston-cylinder assembly. Air is modeled as an...
One kg of air is in a piston-cylinder assembly. Air is modeled as an ideal gas with a constant specific heat ratio, k = 1.4. The air undergoes a power cycle consisting of four processes in series: Process 1-2: Constant-temperature expansion at 600 K from P, = 0.5 MPa to P2 = 0.4 MPa Process 2-3: Polytropic expansion with n=k to P; - 0.3 MPa Process 3-4: Constant-pressure compression to V4-V Process 4-1: Constant-volume heating. (a) Sketch the cycle on...
C only please Question 1 (50 points) One kg of air is in a piston-cylinder assembly. Air is modeled as an ideal gas with a constant specific heat ratio, k = 1.4. The air undergoes a power cycle consisting of four processes in series: Process 1-2: Constant-temperature expansion at 600 K from P, = 0.5 MPa to P2 = 0.4 MPa Process 2–3: Polytropic expansion with n=k to Pz = 0.3 MPa Process 3-4: Constant-pressure compression to V4 = V....
A piston-cylinder assembly contains air modeled as an ideal gas with a constant specific heat ratio, k = 1.4. The air undergoes a power cycle consisting of four processes in series: Process 1-2: Constant-temperature expansion at 600 K from p1 = 0.5 MPa to p2 = 0.4 MPa. Process 2-3: Polutropic expansion with n = k to p3 = 0.3 MPa. Process 3-4: Constant-pressure compression to V4 = V1. Process 4-1: Constant volume heating. Sketch the cycle on a p-v...
A piston-cylinder assembly contains air modeled as an ideal gas. The air undergoes a power cycle consisting of four processes in series: • Process 1-2: Constant-temperature expansion at 600 K from p1 = 0.5 MPa to p2 = 0.4 MPa. • Process 2-3: Polytropic expansion with n = 1.3 to p3 = 0.3 MPa. • Process 3-4: Constant-pressure compression to ν4 = ν1. • Process 4-1: Constant-volume heating. a) Sketch the cycle on a p-ν diagram. b) Calculate the work...
Air in a cylinder-Piston device undergoes a cyclic process. Initially, the air is at P-5 [MPa) and T-350 [C]. Process 1 to 2 is an isothermal expansion from 5 (MPa) to 1 [MPa). Process 2 to 3 is a polytropie compression to 5 [MPa) with a polytropic exponent n=1.3. The cycle gets completed by a constant pressure process from the state 3 to 1. Air properties are R 0.287 [Kj/Kg. K] and k=1.4 and the mass of air in cylinder...
PROBLEM-3 (30%) One kg of air in a piston-cylinder assembly undergoes two processes in series from an initial state where P1 = 0.5 MPa, T1 = 227°C: Process 1-2: Constant-temperature expansion until the volume is twice the initial volume. Process 2–3: Constant-volume heating until the pressure is again 0.5 MPa. Sketch the two processes in series on a P-v diagram. Assuming ideal gas behavior, determine: (a) the pressure at state 2, (in MPa) (b) the temperature at state 3, (in...
A piston-cylinder assembly undergoes a cycle consisting of the following three processes: • Process 1-2: Compression with constant internal energy • Process 2-3: Constant-volume cooling to p3 = 100 kPa, V3 = 0.1 m3 • Process 3-1: Constant-pressure expansion with W31 = 12 kJ Sketch the cycle on a p-V diagram, labeling each of the states and indicating the process directions with arrows. If the work for the entire cycle is Wcycle = -20 kJ and changes in kinetic and potential energy are negligible,...
One kg of air in a piston-cylinder assembly undergoes two processes in series from an initial state where p1 = 0.5 MPa, T1 = 227oC. Process 1-2: Constant-temperature expansion until the volume is twice the initial volume. Process 2-3: Constant-volume heating until the pressure is again 0.5 MPa. Sketch the two processes in series on a p-v diagram. Assuming ideal gas behavior, determine (a) the pressure at state 2, in MPa, (b) the temperature at state 3, in oC, and...
(6). (12 points) A piston-cylinder device contains 0.25 kg of air initially at 1.8 MPa and 360 °C. The air is first expanded isothermally to 400 kPa, then compressed polytropically, with a polytropic exponent of 1.2 to the initial pressure, and finally compressed at the constant pressure to the initial state. Pease find: (a) (3p) The boundary work for the isothermal expansion process. (b) (3p) The boundary work for the polytropic compression process. (c) (3p)The boundary work for the constant...
Problem # 2 135 Points Polytropic Processes A piston-cylinder undergoes a constant pressure expansion process followed by an adiabatic compression. The adiabatic compression can be modeled as a polytropic process PVn constant with a volume exponent n 1.4. At state 1 the pressure of the system is P1 60 psi, the volume is Vi 8.868 ft3 and the internal energy U 1630.6 BTU. The work output during the constant pressure process is W2-75.2 BTU and the heat transfer input for...