Thermodynamics Assignment: (Question Making)
Thermodynamics Assignment: (Question Making)
Thermodynamics Assignment: (Question Making)
(QUESTION MAKING)
Q: A refrigerator using helium gas operates on a reversed Brayton cycle with a pressure ratio of 5.0.
Prior to compression, the gas occupies 100cm3 at a pressure of 150kPa and a temperature of
-23℃.Its volume at the end of the expansion is 80cm3.What are the refrigerator’s coefficient of
performance and its power input if it operates at 60 cycles per second ?
ANS: Brayton cycle has two adiabatic processes and two isobaric processes. The work per cycle
needed to run the refrigerator is Win =QH - QC ;hence we can both the coefficient of performance
and the power requirements from QH and Qc . Heat energy is tranferred only during isobaric
processes.
T1=V1T4 =200K=-73℃
V4
Helium is a mono atomic gas with ϒ=5/3, so (1-ϒ)/ϒ=-0.40. For adiabatic compression 3 to 4,
p3-0.40T3 =p4-0.40T4
Gives T3=476K=203℃.
Similarly T2 = 381K=108℃
Cp=5/2R=20.8 J/mol K for a mono atomic gas
Win = QH - Qc =6.8 J
K= QC /Win =1.1
Q: Apparatus that liquefies helium is in a laboratory at 296 K. The helium in the apparatus is at 4.0 K.
If 150 mJ of heat is transferred from the helium, find the minimum amount of heat delivered to the
laboratory.
Concept:-
Coefficient of performance K of a Carnot refrigerator is defined as,
K = TL / TH - TL …… (1)
Here TL is the lower temperature of sink and TH is the higher temperature of source.
A refrigerator would like to extract as much heat QL as possible from the low-temperature
reservoir for the least amount of work W. So the efficiency of a refrigerator is defined as,
= QL/W
and this is called coefficient of performance. The larger the value of K, the more efficient is the
refrigerator.
Thus, W = QL/K …… (2)
= QL/( TL / TH - TL)
= QL (TH/ TL - 1) …… (3)
The first law of thermodynamics, applied to the working substance of the refrigerator, gives,
W = QH – QL
QH = W + QL
= QL (TH/ TL – 1) + QL
= QL (TH/ TL)
Solution:-
To obtain the minimum amount of heat delivered to the laboratory, substitute 150 mJ for QL, 296 K
for TH and 4.0 K for TL in the equation QH = QL (TH/ TL),
QH = QL (TH/ TL)
= 11 J
From the above observation we conclude that, the minimum amount of heat delivered to the
laboratory would be 11 J.