A mixture of Csli vapor and air having an air coefficient of 0.9 is burnt in a spark ignition engine at constant vo...
. A 4 stroke 4 cylinder spark ignition engine runs on a stoichiometric mixture of ethanol and air at wide open throttle. The 1 liter engine has a compression ratio of 9:1 and operates at 5000 rpm. The intake manifold conditions are standard pressure and temperature, no residual gas in engine combustion chamber. Using k-1.35 for all calculations the a. Calculate the indicated work done by the engine, in joules per cycle b. Calculate the indicated thermal efficiency c. Calculate...
Α 4-stroke spark-ignition engine has a compression ratio of 10 and operates on the ideal constant volume cycle with intake pressure of 50 kPa (throttled) and intake temperature of 300 K. The exhaust pressure is 100 kPa. The heat input from combustion is 2500 kJ/kg and γ = 1.3 for the working fluid. a. Draw the p-V diagram of the full cycle and indicate all the processes. b. Calculate the residual gas fraction and the temperature decrease during the exhaust...
A compression ignition engine is being analyzed. The residual gas fraction is xr=0.02. The fuel-to-air equivalence ratio is f=0.6. At the end of the compression stroke the temperature is T2=1300 K and specific volume is v2=0.19 m3/kg-air. The maximum cycle pressure is P3=4000 kPa. At the end of the power stroke the specific volume is 1.00 m3/kg-air. Calculate the temperature at the end of the combustion process, T3b, and calculate the work done [kJ/kg-air] during the power stroke.
4. A4.6 L spark ignition engine operates on the ideal Otto cycle with a compression ratio of 10. At the beginning of the compression process the air is at 107 kPa and 21 C. The maximum cycle temperature is 1116°C. Accounting for variable specific heats, determine: (a) the heat addition per cycle in kJ. Ans: 3.368 kJ (b) the net work per cycle in kJ. Ans: 1.907 kJ (c) the mean effective pressure in kPa. Ans: 460.6 kPa (d) the...
1.Water vapor contained in a piston–cylinder assembly undergoes an isothermal expansion at 277°C from a pressure of 5.1 bar to a pressure of 2.7 bar. Evaluate the work, in kJ/kg. 2.Nitrogen (N2) contained in a piston–cylinder arrangement, initially at 9.3 bar and 437 K, undergoes an expansion to a final temperature of 300 K, during which the pressure–volume relationship is pV1.1 = constant. Assuming the ideal gas model for the N2, determine the heat transfer in kJ/kg. 3.Argon contained in...