CHME 7330 Exam 2. 1st October 2012!

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CHME 7330
Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics

Exam 2
1st October 2012, 6.30 - 9.00 pm

Section A
(28 marks)

Section B
(17 marks)

Question

Marks

10

11

Total

45

Instructions:
You may refer to your own notes, and the course textbook. You are allowed a calculator,
but no communication or networking devices. Attempt all questions. The number of
available marks is listed in the table above, and beside each question.

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Section A

Pin, Tin

Pout, Tout

You are exploring a gas processing plant.

You notice a gas pressure regulator in a
well-insulated box. The regulator decreases
the pressure from Pin at the inlet to Pout at
the outlet. The gas, flowing at 1 mole per
second, enters at temperature Tin and
leaves at Tout. The exit pipe is wider than
the entrance pipe so the velocity at the exit
is the same as at the entrance.

Question 1!

[5 marks]

Consider the insulated box as your system

(see system boundary in picture to the right).
Is each of these statements true or false, and why?
(short answers)
e.g.) The system is open.
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)

True.

 

 

 

 

 

  Gas

  enters

  and

  leaves

  the

  system.

The system is adiabatic.

No entropy is generated in the system.
The system is at steady state.
Gas leaves the system with the same kinetic energy as it enters the system.
The system has PdV work interaction with the environment.

Question 2!

[3 marks]

Still considering the box as your system, simplify this first law balance and find an
expression for (Hout Hin). The gas may not be ideal.
dE = dU + dK.E. + dP.E. = Q + W + (Hin + K.E.in + P.E.in ) nin . . .
(Hout + K.E.out + P.E.out ) nout

Question 3!

[3 marks]

Still considering the box as your system, write a full second law balance, then simplify it
and find an expression for (Sout Sin).

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Question 4!

[3 marks]

Now consider a closed parcel of gas about to

flow through the box from Pin to Pout, which are
both known. The gas may not be ideal.
Pin
Pout
Of these properties: S, H, U, T, V, P, N.
a) Which property or properties are definitely
constant?
b) Which property or properties definitely go
down?
c) Which property or properties might go up, might go down, or might remain constant,
depending on the conditions and the properties of the gas?
Question 5!

[2 marks]

Write an expression for (Tout Tin) as the integral of some partial derivative with known
limits. Be clear what are the limits of integration, constant variables, etc.
Question 6!

[7 marks]

Express the partial derivative from the previous question in terms of some of Cp, P, V, T
and/or their derivatives.
Question 7!

[2 marks]

For an ideal gas, show whether Tout is higher than Tin, the same as Tin, or lower than Tin.
Question 8!
Now consider a non-ideal gas, entering at Tin = 300 K.
At 300 K it has a coefficient of thermal expansion of

1 @V
=
= 0.0034 K
V @T P

[3 marks]

Show whether Tout is higher than Tin, the same as Tin, or lower than Tin.

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Section B

You have a closed tank of volume V. You half fill it with water, and fill the remainder with
equal amounts of two inert, ideal gasses A and B, so the total pressure is 1 bar. You fix
a balloon in the bottom of the tank, connected via tubes and a pump to the gas in the
top of the tank. The balloon is permeable to gas A but not gas B. Neither gas is very
soluble in water (but they can diffuse through it) and the amount of water vapor in the
gas phase is negligible. The dead volume in the pump and tubes is very small. You
inflate the balloon slowly, so the system is always close to equilibrium. Eventually, after
a lot of slow pumping, the water level in the tank reaches 3/4 full. Everything remains at
room temperature throughout.
Before inflation:
A and B
P = 1 bar

After inflation and equilibration:

(g)
1/2

3/4

(w)
(b)

Permeable to A only

Question 8!

[5 marks]

What are the conditions for equilibrium between the gas in the top of the tank (g), the
water phase (w), and the gas in the balloon (b)?
Question 9!

[6 marks]

What is the final pressure in the balloon?

Question 10!

[6 marks]

What is minimum amount of work you must have done pumping if you had a frictionless
isothermal pump, the tank was 1 m3, and the room temperature was 300 K?