BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE, PILANI (RAJ)
First Semester (2023-24)
Course No: BITS F111 Thermodynamics; Mid-semester test (Open book)
Max Marks 90 Wednesday, October 11, 2023 (11 am to 12:30 pm) Duration: 90 min
The Question paper has two parts: Part A (30 marks) and Part B (60 Marks)
Answer Part A in the question paper itself, in the space provided. (maximum duration 45 min)
After submitting Part A, question paper of Part B will be given.
Answer Part B in the answer book.
Please highlight the answers with box
Name: Id: Section No:
PART A
Q 1.
A. If a bullet of mass 16.0 g, traveling at a velocity of 950 m/s, hits a small hard oak wooden block
of mass 1 kg, determine the rise in temperature (T) of the hard oak wooden block. [6M]
B. If P = 150 bar and T = 600 °C, find the specific volume of water. What is the percentage error in
calculating the specific volume using a compressibility chart (D.1)? [6M]
C. Helium (He) is at a pressure and temperature of 2 MPa and 2000 K (state 1), respectively. It is
throttled to a pressure of 100 kPa. Represent the process on the T-h plot. Label the process
systematically. [6M]
BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE, PILANI (RAJ)
First Semester (2023-24)
Course No: BITS F111 Thermodynamics; Mid-semester test (Open book)
Max Marks 90 Wednesday, October 11, 2023 (11 am to 12:30 pm) Duration: 90 min
The Question paper has two parts: Part A (30 marks) and Part B (60 Marks)
Answer Part A in the question paper itself, in the space provided. (maximum duration 45 min)
After submitting Part A, question paper of Part B will be given.
Answer Part B in the answer book.
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D. Consider the two processes in the sketch (ab and adb). What P
is the difference between the heat transferred (Qab-Qadb) to
b
control mass system containing an ideal gas and executing the PP2
d
2
given processes if P2 = 2P1 and v2=2v1? Express your answer
in terms of the gas constant R and T1. [6M]
P1 a d
T2
T1
v1 v2
v
E. A sealed rigid vessel has a volume of 30 L and contains a mixture of saturated liquid and vapor of
water at atmospheric pressure of 100 kPa so that the water passes exactly through the critical state
when the container is heated. Find the mass of saturated liquid and the quality of the mixture at
the initial state. [6M]
BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE, PILANI (RAJ)
First Semester (2023-24)
Course No: BITS F111 Thermodynamics; Mid-semester test (Open book)
Max Marks 90 Wednesday, October 11, 2023 (11 am to 12:30 pm) Duration: 90 min
The Question paper has two parts: Part A (30 marks) and Part B (60 Marks)
Answer Part A in the question paper itself, in the space provided. (maximum duration 45 min)
After submitting Part A, question paper of Part B will be given.
Answer Part B in the answer book.
Please highlight the answers with box
Name: Id: Section No:
PART B
Q 2. Tank A (volume=0.1 m3) contains 2 kg of ammonia at -30 °C. It is connected
to cylinder B through a valve that is initially closed. Cylinder B contains an insulated
massless piston (area=0.1 m2) connected to a linear spring (k=5 kN/m) immersed in
water (assuming the density of water as 1000 kg/m3), as shown in the fig. 1. The
volume of tank B is 0.1 m3 and atmospheric pressure is P0=100 kPa. Cylinder B also
has a stop at a height of 0.75 m. Initially, the piston is at the bottom and the spring
is unrestrained. The valve is opened slowly, and heat is transferred to ammonia until
the temperature of the ammonia reaches to 5 °C. (Assume a quasi-equilibrium
process and g=10 m/s2, neglect the piston's thickness, the ammonia volume in the
connecting pipe, and the volume of the spring).
a) Find whether the piston is against the stops. Fig 1
b) Find the final pressure in kPa and the total volume of ammonia (m3).
c) Calculate the total work done by ammonia in the process (kJ).
d) Calculate the total heat supplied to ammonia (kJ).
e) Represent the process on P-v plot. [20M]
Q 3. Two kilograms of air, initially at 6 bar, 400 K, and 4 kg of carbon monoxide
(CO) initially at 3 bar, 550 K are confined to opposite sides of a rigid, well-insulated
container by a partition, as shown in Fig 2. The partition is free to move and allows heat
transfer from one gas to the other without energy storage in the partition itself. The air
and CO behave as ideal gases with a constant specific heat ratio of k= 1.395.
Determine at equilibrium
a) the final temperature, (K)
b) the final pressure, (bar) and
c) the volume occupied by each gas at the final state, (m3). Fig 2.
𝑅
Assuming constant specific heat 𝐶𝑣 = , where R is the specific gas constant. [20M]
𝑘−1
Q 4. As shown in Fig 3. steam at 80 bar, 440 °C, enters in an insulated
turbine, with negligible inlet velocity, operating at steady state with a
volumetric flow rate of 236 m3/min. Twenty percent of the entering mass
flow exits through a diameter of 0.25 m at 60 bar, 400 °C. The rest exits
through a diameter of 1.5 m with a pressure of 0.7 bar and a quality of
90%. Determine
a) the velocity at each exit duct, (m/s).
b) the mass flowrate at each exit (kg/s).
c) Power generated (kW). [20M]
Fig 3.
