CONNECT FOR THERMODYNAMICS: AN ENGINEERI
9th Edition
ISBN: 9781260048636
Author: CENGEL
Publisher: MCG
expand_more
expand_more
format_list_bulleted
Concept explainers
Videos
Textbook Question
Chapter 5.5, Problem 26P
A diffuser is an adiabatic device that decreases the kinetic energy of the fluid by slowing it down. What happens to this lost kinetic energy?
Expert Solution & Answer
Want to see the full answer?
Check out a sample textbook solution
Students have asked these similar questions
The kinetic energy of air
as it flows through
an adiabatic
nozzle.
decreases
increases
remains constant
A grist mill of the 1800s employed a waterwheel that was 14 m high; 480 L/min of water flowed onto the wheel near the top. How much power, in kW, could this waterwheel have produced?
2. 1 kg water at velocity 12.5 m/s and 30oC enters a 2.54 cm diameter horizontal pipe where
there is no heat or work exchange with the surroundings. The water suddenly flows through
a larger pipe with a diameter of 3.85cm. Calculate the following:
a. Velocity of the water leaving the pipe in m/s
b. The change in temperature of the water. Cpwater=4.18 ??
??.K
Please answer question number 2.
Chapter 5 Solutions
CONNECT FOR THERMODYNAMICS: AN ENGINEERI
Ch. 5.5 - Name four physical quantities that are conserved...Ch. 5.5 - Define mass and volume flow rates. How are they...Ch. 5.5 - Does the amount of mass entering a control volume...Ch. 5.5 - Consider a device with one inlet and one outlet....Ch. 5.5 - The ventilating fan of the bathroom of a building...Ch. 5.5 - Air enters a 16-cm-diameter pipe steadily at 200...Ch. 5.5 - A steam pipe is to transport 200 lbm/s of steam at...Ch. 5.5 - A garden hose attached with a nozzle is used to...Ch. 5.5 - A steady-flow compressor is used to compress...Ch. 5.5 - Air enters the 1-m2 inlet of an aircraft engine at...
Ch. 5.5 - A 2-m3 rigid tank initially contains air whose...Ch. 5.5 - Air enters a nozzle steadily at 2.21 kg/m3 and 40...Ch. 5.5 - A spherical hot-air balloon is initially filled...Ch. 5.5 - Water enters the constant 130-mm inside-diameter...Ch. 5.5 - A desktop computer is to be cooled by a fan whose...Ch. 5.5 - A hair dryer is basically a duct of constant...Ch. 5.5 - Refrigerant-134a enters a 28-cm-diameter pipe...Ch. 5.5 - What are the different mechanisms for transferring...Ch. 5.5 - How do the energies of a flowing fluid and a fluid...Ch. 5.5 - An air compressor compresses 6 L of air at 120 kPa...Ch. 5.5 - A house is maintained at 1 atm and 24C, and warm...Ch. 5.5 - Refrigerant-134a enters the compressor of a...Ch. 5.5 - Steam is leaving a pressure cooker whose operating...Ch. 5.5 - How is a steady-flow system characterized?Ch. 5.5 - Can a steady-flow system involve boundary work?Ch. 5.5 - A diffuser is an adiabatic device that decreases...Ch. 5.5 - The kinetic energy of a fluid increases as it is...Ch. 5.5 - The stators in a gas turbine are designed to...Ch. 5.5 - The diffuser in a jet engine is designed to...Ch. 5.5 - Air enters a nozzle steadily at 50 psia, 140F, and...Ch. 5.5 - Air at 600 kPa and 500 K enters an adiabatic...Ch. 5.5 - Carbon dioxide enters an adiabatic nozzle steadily...Ch. 5.5 - Steam enters a nozzle at 400C and 800 kPa with a...Ch. 5.5 - Air at 80 kPa and 127C enters an adiabatic...Ch. 5.5 - Air at 13 psia and 65F enters an adiabatic...Ch. 5.5 - Refrigerant-134a at 700 kPa and 120C enters an...Ch. 5.5 - Refrigerant-134a enters a diffuser steadily as...Ch. 5.5 - Air at 80 kPa, 27C, and 220 m/s enters a diffuser...Ch. 5.5 - Air enters an adiabatic nozzle steadily at 300...Ch. 5.5 - Consider an adiabatic turbine operating steadily....Ch. 5.5 - Prob. 42PCh. 5.5 - Somebody proposes the following system to cool a...Ch. 5.5 - Air is expanded from 1000 kPa and 600C at the...Ch. 5.5 - Prob. 45PCh. 5.5 - Refrigerant-134a enters a compressor at 100 kPa...Ch. 5.5 - Refrigerant-134a enters a compressor at 180 kPa as...Ch. 5.5 - Steam flows steadily through an adiabatic turbine....Ch. 5.5 - Steam flows steadily through a turbine at a rate...Ch. 5.5 - Steam enters an adiabatic turbine at 8 MPa and...Ch. 5.5 - An adiabatic air compressor compresses 10 L/s of...Ch. 5.5 - Carbon dioxide enters an adiabatic compressor at...Ch. 5.5 - Steam flows steadily into a turbine with a mass...Ch. 5.5 - Air is compressed by an adiabatic compressor from...Ch. 5.5 - Air enters the compressor of a gas-turbine plant...Ch. 5.5 - A portion of the steam passing through a steam...Ch. 5.5 - Why are throttling devices commonly used in...Ch. 5.5 - Would you expect the temperature of air to drop as...Ch. 5.5 - During a throttling process, the temperature of a...Ch. 5.5 - Someone claims, based on temperature measurements,...Ch. 5.5 - Refrigerant-134a is throttled from the saturated...Ch. 5.5 - A saturated liquidvapor mixture of water, called...Ch. 5.5 - Prob. 64PCh. 5.5 - A well-insulated valve is used to throttle steam...Ch. 5.5 - Refrigerant-134a enters the expansion valve of a...Ch. 5.5 - Prob. 68PCh. 5.5 - Prob. 69PCh. 5.5 - Consider a steady-flow heat exchanger involving...Ch. 5.5 - Prob. 71PCh. 5.5 - Refrigerant-134a at 700 kPa, 70C, and 8 kg/min is...Ch. 5.5 - Hot and cold streams of a fluid are mixed in a...Ch. 5.5 - A hot-water stream at 80C enters a mixing chamber...Ch. 5.5 - Water at 80F and 20 psia is heated in a chamber by...Ch. 5.5 - An adiabatic open feedwater heater in an electric...Ch. 5.5 - Cold water (cp = 4.18 kJ/kgC) leading to a shower...Ch. 5.5 - Steam is to be condensed on the shell side of a...Ch. 5.5 - Air (cp = 1.005 kJ/kgC) is to be preheated by hot...Ch. 5.5 - An open feedwater heater heats the feedwater by...Ch. 5.5 - Refrigerant-134a at 1 MPa and 90C is to be cooled...Ch. 5.5 - The evaporator of a refrigeration cycle is...Ch. 5.5 - An air-conditioning system involves the mixing of...Ch. 5.5 - A well-insulated shell-and-tube heat exchanger is...Ch. 5.5 - Steam is to be condensed in the condenser of a...Ch. 5.5 - Steam is to be condensed in the condenser of a...Ch. 5.5 - Two streams of water are mixed in an insulated...Ch. 5.5 - Two mass streams of the same ideal gas are mixed...Ch. 5.5 - Water is heated in an insulated, constant-diameter...Ch. 5.5 - A 110-volt electrical heater is used to warm 0.3...Ch. 5.5 - The ducts of an air heating system pass through an...Ch. 5.5 - The fan on a personal computer draws 0.3 ft3/s of...Ch. 5.5 - Saturated liquid water is heated in a steady-flow...Ch. 5.5 - Water enters the tubes of a cold plate at 70F with...Ch. 5.5 - Prob. 96PCh. 5.5 - A computer cooled by a fan contains eight PCBs,...Ch. 5.5 - A desktop computer is to be cooled by a fan. The...Ch. 5.5 - Prob. 99PCh. 5.5 - A 4-m 5-m 6-m room is to be heated by an...Ch. 5.5 - A house has an electric heating system that...Ch. 5.5 - A long roll of 2-m-wide and 0.5-cm-thick 1-Mn...Ch. 5.5 - Prob. 103PCh. 5.5 - Prob. 104PCh. 5.5 - Argon steadily flows into a constant-pressure...Ch. 5.5 - Steam enters a long, horizontal pipe with an inlet...Ch. 5.5 - Refrigerant-134a enters the condenser of a...Ch. 5.5 - A hair dryer is basically a duct in which a few...Ch. 5.5 - A hair dryer is basically a duct in which a few...Ch. 5.5 - Air enters the duct of an air-conditioning system...Ch. 5.5 - An insulated rigid tank is initially evacuated. A...Ch. 5.5 - A rigid, insulated tank that is initially...Ch. 5.5 - Prob. 115PCh. 5.5 - A 2-m3 rigid tank initially contains air at 100...Ch. 5.5 - A 0.2-m3 rigid tank equipped with a pressure...Ch. 5.5 - Prob. 118PCh. 5.5 - An insulated 40-ft3 rigid tank contains air at 50...Ch. 5.5 - A 4-L pressure cooker has an operating pressure of...Ch. 5.5 - An air-conditioning system is to be filled from a...Ch. 5.5 - Oxygen is supplied to a medical facility from ten...Ch. 5.5 - A 0.05-m3 rigid tank initially contains...Ch. 5.5 - A 0.12-m3 rigid tank contains saturated...Ch. 5.5 - A 0.3-m3 rigid tank is filled with saturated...Ch. 5.5 - The air-release flap on a hot-air balloon is used...Ch. 5.5 - Prob. 127PCh. 5.5 - An insulated 0.15-m3 tank contains helium at 3 MPa...Ch. 5.5 - A vertical pistoncylinder device initially...Ch. 5.5 - A vertical piston-cylinder device initially...Ch. 5.5 - A pistoncylinder device initially contains 0.6 kg...Ch. 5.5 - The weighted piston of the device shown in Fig....Ch. 5.5 - Prob. 136RPCh. 5.5 - Prob. 137RPCh. 5.5 - Prob. 138RPCh. 5.5 - Air at 4.18 kg/m3 enters a nozzle that has an...Ch. 5.5 - Prob. 140RPCh. 5.5 - An air compressor compresses 15 L/s of air at 120...Ch. 5.5 - A steam turbine operates with 1.6 MPa and 350C...Ch. 5.5 - Refrigerant-134a enters an adiabatic compressor at...Ch. 5.5 - Prob. 144RPCh. 5.5 - Prob. 145RPCh. 5.5 - Prob. 146RPCh. 5.5 - Prob. 147RPCh. 5.5 - Steam enters a nozzle with a low velocity at 150C...Ch. 5.5 - Prob. 149RPCh. 5.5 - Prob. 150RPCh. 5.5 - Prob. 151RPCh. 5.5 - Prob. 152RPCh. 5.5 - Prob. 153RPCh. 5.5 - Cold water enters a steam generator at 20C and...Ch. 5.5 - An ideal gas expands in an adiabatic turbine from...Ch. 5.5 - Determine the power input for a compressor that...Ch. 5.5 - Prob. 157RPCh. 5.5 - Prob. 158RPCh. 5.5 - Prob. 159RPCh. 5.5 - Prob. 160RPCh. 5.5 - In a dairy plant, milk at 4C is pasteurized...Ch. 5.5 - Prob. 162RPCh. 5.5 - Prob. 163RPCh. 5.5 - Prob. 164RPCh. 5.5 - Prob. 165RPCh. 5.5 - Prob. 166RPCh. 5.5 - The average atmospheric pressure in Spokane,...Ch. 5.5 - The ventilating fan of the bathroom of a building...Ch. 5.5 - Prob. 169RPCh. 5.5 - Determine the rate of sensible heat loss from a...Ch. 5.5 - Prob. 171RPCh. 5.5 - An air-conditioning system requires airflow at the...Ch. 5.5 - A building with an internal volume of 400 m3 is to...Ch. 5.5 - The maximum flow rate of standard shower heads is...Ch. 5.5 - Prob. 176RPCh. 5.5 - Prob. 177RPCh. 5.5 - Steam enters a turbine steadily at 7 MPa and 600C...Ch. 5.5 - Reconsider Prob. 5178. Using appropriate software,...Ch. 5.5 - Prob. 180RPCh. 5.5 - A liquid R-134a bottle has an internal volume of...Ch. 5.5 - A pistoncylinder device initially contains 2 kg of...Ch. 5.5 - A pistoncylinder device initially contains 1.2 kg...Ch. 5.5 - A pressure cooker is a pot that cooks food much...Ch. 5.5 - A tank with an internal volume of 1 m3 contains...Ch. 5.5 - In a single-flash geothermal power plant,...Ch. 5.5 - An adiabatic air compressor is to be powered by a...Ch. 5.5 - The turbocharger of an internal combustion engine...Ch. 5.5 - Prob. 189RPCh. 5.5 - Consider an evacuated rigid bottle of volume V...Ch. 5.5 - An adiabatic heat exchanger is used to heat cold...Ch. 5.5 - A heat exchanger is used to heat cold water at 15C...Ch. 5.5 - An adiabatic heat exchanger is used to heat cold...Ch. 5.5 - In a shower, cold water at 10C flowing at a rate...Ch. 5.5 - Prob. 195FEPCh. 5.5 - Prob. 196FEPCh. 5.5 - Hot combustion gases (assumed to have the...Ch. 5.5 - Steam expands in a turbine from 4 MPa and 500C to...Ch. 5.5 - Steam is compressed by an adiabatic compressor...Ch. 5.5 - Refrigerant-134a is compressed by a compressor...Ch. 5.5 - Refrigerant-134a at 1.4 MPa and 70C is throttled...Ch. 5.5 - Prob. 202FEPCh. 5.5 - Prob. 203FEPCh. 5.5 - Air at 27C and 5 atm is throttled by a valve to 1...Ch. 5.5 - Steam at 1 MPa and 300C is throttled adiabatically...Ch. 5.5 - Air is to be heated steadily by an 8-kW electric...Ch. 5.5 - Saturated water vapor at 40C is to be condensed as...
Knowledge Booster
Learn more about
Need a deep-dive on the concept behind this application? Look no further. Learn more about this topic, mechanical-engineering and related others by exploring similar questions and additional content below.Similar questions
- Steam enters an adiabatic turbine at the rate of 50 kg/sec. If the steam properties at the inlet are the following: enthalpy = 3520 KJ/kg and velocity = 10 m/sec, at the outlet which is 5 m below the turbine inlet, enthalpy = 2250 kJ/kg and velocity = 275 m/sec, the change in potential energy in kW is nearly equal to?arrow_forward2. Consider a wind turbine that is situated in an area that has steady winds. The turbine rotates at 16 RPM. The mass flow rate through the turbine is 41,025 kg/s. The tip velocity is 260 km/hr. Take the air density to be 1.31 kg/m and assume 180kW of electric power is generated by the turbine. Determine the following: a. Average velocity of the air b. The efficiency of the turbine c. Assuming winds are steady for 95% of the year, is this a suitable location for a wind turbine? Explain.arrow_forward2. 1 kg water at velocity 12.5 m/s and 30oC enters a 2.54 cm diameter horizontal pipe where there is no heat or work exchange with the surroundings. The water suddenly flows through a larger pipe with a diameter of 3.85cm. Calculate the following: a. Velocity of the water leaving the pipe in m/s b. The change in temperature of the water. Cpwater=4.18 KI Kg.Karrow_forward
- 12 kg of air per minute is delivered by a centrifugal air compressor It enters the compressor at a velocity of 12 m/s with a pressure of 1 bar and specific volume of 0. 5 mkg and leaves at a velocity of 90 m/s with a pressure of 8 bar and specific volume of 0.14 m/kg. The increase in enthapy of air passing through the compressor is (h-h = 150 kJ/kg) and heat loos to the surroundings at a rate of 700 kJ/min. Assume the inlet and discharge line are at the same level. Answer the following; a. What are the main assumptions b. Calculate the power required to drive the compressor, in kW c. Calculate the ratio of inlet and outlet pipe diameter? Air out Boundary Centrifugal compressor di Air inarrow_forwardThe Figure shows a solar collector panel embedded in a roof. The panel, which has a surface area of 24 ft2, receives energy from the sun at a rate of 200 Btu/h per ft2 of collector surface. Twenty-five percent of the incoming energy is lost to the surroundings. The remaining energy is used to heat domestic hot water from 90 to 120°F. The water passes through the solar collector with a negligible pressure drop. Neglecting kinetic and potential effects, determine at steady state how many gallons of water at 120°F the collector generates per hour.arrow_forwardAir flows steadily through an engine at constant temperature 400 K.Find the work per kilogram if the exit pressure is one third the inlet pressure and the inlet pressure is 207 KPa. Assume that the kinetic energy and potential energy variation is negligible.arrow_forward
- 12 kg of air per minute is delivered by a centrifugal air compressor It enters the compressor at a velocity of 12 m/s with a pressure of 1 bar and specific volume of 0. 5 m/kg and leaves at a velocity of 90 m/s with a pressure of 8 bar and specific volume of 0.14 m/kg. The increase in enthalpy of air passing through the compressor is (h-hi = 150 kJ/kg) and heat loos to the surroundings at a rate of 700 kJ/min. Assume the inlet and discharge line are at the same level. Answer the following; a. What are the main assumptions b. Calculate the power required to drive the compressor, in kW! c. Calculate the ratio of inlet and outlet pipe diameter? Air out Boundary Centrifugal compressor di Air inarrow_forward12 kg of air per minute is delivered by a centrifugal air compressor It enters the compressor at a velocity of 12 m/s with a pressure of 1 bar and specific volume of 0. 5 m²/kg and leaves at a velocity of 90 m/s with a pressure of 8 bar and specific volume of 0.14 m/kg. The increase in enthalpy of air passing through the compressor is (hz-hi = 150 kJ/kg) and heat loos to the surroundings at a rate of 700 kJ/min. Assume the inlet and discharge line are at the same level. Answer the following; a. What are the main assumptions b. Calculate the power required to drive the compressor, in kW c. Calculate the ratio of inlet and outlet pipe diameter? Air out Boundary d2 Centrifugal compressor di Air inarrow_forwardB5arrow_forward
- 2.) Steam enters a turbine at 1380 kPa with internal energy of 2705 kJ/kg and specific volume of 0.1655 m'/kg. Exhaust is at 7 kPa with internal energy 2150 kJ/kg and specific volume of 18.36 m/kg. The heat loss from the turbine is 25 kJ/kg. Determine (a) the work per kJ/kg and (b) the steam flow rate in kg/hr if the turbine produces 150 kW.arrow_forwardAn adiabatic compressor receives 0.5 kg/s of helium at 175 kPa and 320 K and discharges it at 0.8 MPa. If the specific heat at constant pressure and specific heat at constant volume of helium is 5.19 and 3.12 kJ/(kg-K) respectively, Calculate the following. a. The volume flow rate of helium in cfm. b. The Work of the compressor in kW. c. The brake power in Hp for a compressor efficiency of 78%.arrow_forwardA fluid at pressure of 3 bar, and with specific volume 0.18 m^3/kg, contained in a cyclinder behind a piston that expands reversibly to a pressure of 0.6 bar according to a law: p= C/v², where c is a constant. Show the expansion process on p-V diagram and calculate the net work done by the fluid on the piston.arrow_forward
arrow_back_ios
SEE MORE QUESTIONS
arrow_forward_ios
Recommended textbooks for you
Elements Of ElectromagneticsMechanical EngineeringISBN:9780190698614Author:Sadiku, Matthew N. O.Publisher:Oxford University Press
Mechanics of Materials (10th Edition)Mechanical EngineeringISBN:9780134319650Author:Russell C. HibbelerPublisher:PEARSON
Thermodynamics: An Engineering ApproachMechanical EngineeringISBN:9781259822674Author:Yunus A. Cengel Dr., Michael A. BolesPublisher:McGraw-Hill Education
Control Systems EngineeringMechanical EngineeringISBN:9781118170519Author:Norman S. NisePublisher:WILEY
Mechanics of Materials (MindTap Course List)Mechanical EngineeringISBN:9781337093347Author:Barry J. Goodno, James M. GerePublisher:Cengage Learning
Engineering Mechanics: StaticsMechanical EngineeringISBN:9781118807330Author:James L. Meriam, L. G. Kraige, J. N. BoltonPublisher:WILEY
Elements Of Electromagnetics
Mechanical Engineering
ISBN:9780190698614
Author:Sadiku, Matthew N. O.
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Mechanics of Materials (10th Edition)
Mechanical Engineering
ISBN:9780134319650
Author:Russell C. Hibbeler
Publisher:PEARSON
Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach
Mechanical Engineering
ISBN:9781259822674
Author:Yunus A. Cengel Dr., Michael A. Boles
Publisher:McGraw-Hill Education
Control Systems Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
ISBN:9781118170519
Author:Norman S. Nise
Publisher:WILEY
Mechanics of Materials (MindTap Course List)
Mechanical Engineering
ISBN:9781337093347
Author:Barry J. Goodno, James M. Gere
Publisher:Cengage Learning
Engineering Mechanics: Statics
Mechanical Engineering
ISBN:9781118807330
Author:James L. Meriam, L. G. Kraige, J. N. Bolton
Publisher:WILEY
Work, Energy, and Power: Crash Course Physics #9; Author: CrashCourse;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4QFJb9a8vo;License: Standard YouTube License, CC-BY
Different Forms Of Energy | Physics; Author: Manocha Academy;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiNx7YBnM-s;License: Standard Youtube License