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04-BS-10: May 2016

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  1. Question 1 Reheat Rankine Cycle
  2. Question 2 Regenerative Gas Turbine, Two-Stage Intercooled Compressor
  3. Question 3 Two-Stage Compression Refrigeration with a Flash Chamber
  4. Question 4 Ideal Otto Cycle, Variable Specific Heats
  5. Question 5 Isentropic Compression of an N₂/CO₂ Ideal-Gas Mixture
  6. Question 6 Moist Air Heated at Constant Volume in a Sealed Rigid Vessel
  7. Question 7 Adiabatic Steam Turbine, Efficiency from a Measured Work Output
  8. Question 8 Two-Phase Expansion with Pv = Constant
  9. Question 9 Uncontrolled Expansion into an Evacuated Compartment

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National Exam 04-BS-10, Thermodynamics — May 2016. 3 hours, Closed-Book Exam (approved calculator and one double-sided 8.5x11-inch aid sheet permitted; property tables and charts supplied in an appendix, interpolation not required). Part A: answer 2 of Questions 1-3 (20 marks each). Part B: answer 4 of Questions 4-9 (15 marks each), for a 100-mark paper. Only the first two Part-A and first four Part-B questions as they appear in the answer book are marked. All nine questions (Part A complete, Part B complete) are solved below for completeness.

Reference texts: Cengel & Boles, Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach, 8th ed.; Moran, Shapiro, Boettner & Bailey, Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics, 8th ed. All state properties (water/steam, R-134a, air, N₂, CO₂, moist air) were computed from high-accuracy equations of state in place of printed property-table interpolation; every boxed numeric result.