BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE, PILANI B.

S Process Engineering (Aditya Birla Group - Cement Business) Second Semester 2010-2011 Course No. Course Title Component Questions: 1. A stream of warm water is produced in a steady flow mixing process by combining 1.0 kg s -1 of cool water at 298.15 K (25 C) with 0.8 kg s-1 of hot water at 348.15 K (75 C). During mixing, heat lost to the surrounding at rate of 30 kW. What is the temperature of the warm-water stream? Assume the specific heat of water constant at 4.18 kJ kg-1 K-1.
2. Gas is bled from a tank. Neglecting heat transfer between the gas and the tank, show that mass and energy balances produce the differential equation: dU dm = H ' U m Here, U and m refer to the gas remaining in the tank; H' is the specific enthalpy of the gas leaving the tank. Under what conditions can one assume H' = H 3. One mole of an ideal gas with Cp = (7/2)R and Cv = (512) R expands from P 1 = 8 bar and Tl = 600 K to P2 = 1 bar by each of the following paths: (a) Constant volume; (b) Constant temperature; (c) Adiabatically. Assuming mechanical reversibility, calculate W, Q, U, and H for each process. Sketch each path on a single P V diagram. 4. For methyl chloride at 373.15 K (100C) the second and third virial coefficients are: B = -242.5 cm3 mol-1 C = 25200 cm6 mol-2 Calculate the work of mechanically reversible, isothermal compression of 1 mol of methyl chloride from 1 bar to 55 bar at 373.15 K (100C). Base calculations on the following forms of the virial equation:

: PEAB ZC311 : Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics : Assignment 1

B C + V V2 (b) Z = 1 + B' P + C ' P 2

(a) Z = 1 + Where
C B2 B C' = ( RT ) 2 RT Why don't both equations give exactly the same result?

B' =

5. Estimate the volume occupied by 18 kg of ethylene (molecular weight = 28) at 328.15 K (55 C) and 35 bar using (a) Pitzers generalized correlation for second virial coefficient. (b) Redlich / Kwong (RK) equation 6. How much heat is required when 15 mol of 1-butene initially at 260 C is heated at atmospheric pressure to 1140.65 C.

7. Determine the standard heat of each of the following reaction at 298.15 K (25C) and at 773.15 K (500C): 3NO2 (g) + H2O (l) + 2HNO3 (1) + NO (g) 8. With respect to 1 kg of liquid water: a. Initially at 273.15 K (0oC), it is heated to 373.15 K (100C) by contact with a heat reservoir at 373.15 K (100C). What is the entropy change of the water? Of the heat reservoir? What is Stotal? b. Initially at 273.15 K (0C), it is first heated to 323.15 K (50C) by contact with a heat reservoir at 323.15 K (50C) and then to 373.15 K (100C) by contact with a reservoir at 373.15 K (100C). What is Stotal? c. Explain how the water might be heated from 273.15 K (0C) to 373.15 K (100C) so that Stotal = 0. 9. Estimate the change in enthalpy and entropy when liquid ammonia at 270 K is compressed from its saturation pressure of 381 kPa to 1200 kPa. For saturated liquid ammonia at 270 K, V = 1.551 x m3 kg-1, and = 2.095 x l0-3 K-1. 10. One kilogram of water (Vl = 1003 cm3 kg-1) in a piston/cylinder device at 298.15 K (25C) and 1 bar is compressed in a mechanically reversible, isothermal process to 1500 bar. Determine Q, W, U, H, and S given that = 250 x l0-6 K-1 and = K =45 x l0-6 bar-1.

ALL THE BEST