Port Said University Thermodynamics
Faculty of Engineering First Year
Prod. Eng. Department Dr. Mohammed El-Morsy Shatat
Sheet 3
Second Law of Thermodynamics
1- An inventor claims to have developed an engine that takes in 1055 MJ at a
temperature of 400 K and rejects 42.2 MJ at a temperature of 200 K while
delivering 15 kWh of mechanical work. Check whether engine is feasible or not.
2- A cyclic heat engine operates between a source temperature of 800 ºC and a sink
temperature of 30 ºC. What is the least rate of heat rejection per kW net output of
the engine?
3- A heat engine is supplied with 287 kW of heat at a constant fixed temperature of
283 ºC and the heat rejection takes place at 5 ºC. The following results were
reported:
(a) 208 kJ/s are rejected (b) 139 kJ/s are rejected
(c) 70 kJ/s are rejected.
4- The data listed below are claimed for a power cycle operating between reservoirs at
527 ºC and 27 ºC. For each case, determine if any principles of thermodynamics
would be violated.
(a) QH = 700 kJ, W = 400 kJ, QL = 300 kJ.
(b) QH = 640 kJ, W = 400 kJ, QL = 240 kJ.
(c) QH = 640 kJ, W = 400 kJ, QL = 200 kJ.
5- Determine the heat to be supplied to a Carnot engine operating between 400 ºC and
15 ºC and producing 200 kJ of work.
6- Compare two heat engines receiving the same Q, one at 1200 K and the other at
1800 K, both of which reject heat at 500 K. Which one is better?
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7- A refrigerator operates on reversed Carnot cycle. Determine the power required to
drive refrigerator between temperatures of 42 ºC and 4 ºC if heat at the rate of 2 kJ/s
is extracted from the low temperature region.
8- A cyclic machine receives 325 kJ from a 1000 K energy reservoir. It rejects 125
kJ to a 400 K energy reservoir, and the cycle produces 200 kJ of work as output.
Is this cycle reversible, irreversible, or impossible?
9- A reversible heat engine operates between two reservoirs at 827ºC and 27ºC Engine
drives a Carnot refrigerator maintaining 13ºC and rejecting heat to reservoir at
27ºC. Heat input to the engine is 2000 kJ and the net work available is 300 kJ. How
much heat is transferred to refrigerant and total heat rejected to reservoir at 27ºC?
10- A Carnot engine getting heat at 800 K is used to drive a Carnot refrigerator
maintaining 280 K temperature. Both engine and refrigerator reject heat at some
temperature, T, when heat given to engine is equal to heat absorbed by refrigerator.
Determine efficiency of engine and C.O.P. of refrigerator.
11- Three reversible engines of Carnot type are operating in
series as shown between the limiting temperatures of 1100
K and 300 K. Determine the intermediate temperatures if
the work output from engines is in proportion of 3 : 2 : 1.
12- A reversible engine as shown in figure during a cycle of operation draws 5 MJ from
the 400 K reservoir and does 840 kJ of work. Find the amount and direction of
heat interaction with other reservoirs.
