AFE BABALOLA UNIVERSITY, ADO-EKITI

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL & PETROLEUM ENGINEERING
2016/2017 FIRST SEMESTER B.ENG CHEMICAL ENGINEERING
EXAMINATION
CHE 331: CHEMICAL ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS I

Time Allowed: 2 hours Date: February 6, 2017

INSTRUCTION: Attempt a total of FOUR questions in all. Answer TWO question from Section
A and TWO question from Section B.

SECTION A

Question 1
(a) A solid body at initial temperature T0 is immersed in a bath of water at initial temperature
Tw0 . Heat is transferred from the solid to the water at a rate Q = K (Tw T ), where K is a
constant and Tw and T are instantaneous values of the temperatures of the water and solid.
Develop an expression for T as a function of time . Check your result for the limiting cases,
= 0 and = . Ignore effects of expansion or contraction, and assume constant specific
heats for both water and solid.
(b) A stream of warm water is produced in a steady-flow mixing process by combining 1.0 kgs1
of cool water at 25 C with 0.8 kgs1 . What is the temperature of the warm-water stream?
Assume that the specific heat of water is constant at 4.18 kJkg 1 K 1 .

Question 2
(a) Find the equation for the work of a reversible, isothermal compression of 1 mol of gas in a
piston/cylinder assembly if the molar volume of the gas is given by:

RT
V = +b
P

(b) One kilogram of air is heated reversibly at constant pressure from an initial state of 300 K
and 1 bar until its volume triples. Calculate W , Q, U and H for the process. Assume for
air that P V /T is constant, CV = (5/2)R, and CP = (7/2)R.

Question 3
(a) Express the volume expansivity and the isothermal compressibility as functions of density
and its partial derivatives. For water at 50 C and 1 bar, = 44.18 106 bar1 . To
what pressure must water be compressed at 50 C to change its density by 1%? Assume is
independent of P.
(b) For liquid water the isothermal compressibility is given by:
c
=
V (P + b)

where c and b are functions of temperature only. If 1 kg of water is compressed isothermally

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Question 4
(a) Given that
V
dH = CP dT + V T
T P
is an exact differential expression.
i. Show that:
2V

CP
= T I
P T T 2 P

ii. What is the result of the application of Equation (I) to an ideal gas?
(b) Liquid water at 25 C and 1 bar fills a rigid vessel. If heat is added to the water until its
temperature reaches 50 C, what pressure is developed? The average value of between 25
and 50 C is 36.3105 K1 . The value of at 1 bar and 50 C is 4.42105 bar1 , and
may be assumed independent of pressure. The specific volume of liquid water at 25 C is
1.003 cm3 g 1 .

Question 5
(a) Heat capacities CV and CP are defined as temperature derivatives respectively of U and H.
Because these properties are related, it is expected that the heat capacities are also related.
Show that the general expression connecting CP to CV is:

P V
CP = CV + T
T V T P

(b) Estimate the change in enthalpy and entropy when liquid ammonia at 270 K is compressed
from its saturation pressure of 381 kP a to 1200 kP a. For saturated liquid ammonia at 270 K,
the specific volume is 1.551103 m3 kg 1 and = 2.095 103 K1 .

Question 6
If U is considered a function
of T and P, the natural heat capacity is neither
CV nor CP but
U U
rather the derivative . Develop the following connections between , CP and CV :
T P T P

U V
= CP P = CP P V
T P T P

P V
= CV + T P = CV + (T P ) V
T V T P

To what do these equations reduce:

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