A quantity of water with in a piston-cylinder assembly


A quantity of water with in a piston-cylinder assembly executes a Carnot power cycle. During isothermal expansion, the water is heated from saturated liquid at 50 bar until it is a saturated vapour. The vapour then expands adiabatically to a pressure of 5 bar while doing 364.31 kJ/kg of work.

(a) Sketch the cycle on p-v coordinates.

(b) Evaluate the heat transfer per unit mass and work per unit mass for each process, kJ/kg.

(c) Evaluate the thermal efficiency.

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Mechanical Engineering: A quantity of water with in a piston-cylinder assembly
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