22-Mec-A1 Applied Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer: May 2014

Paper: National Examinations — 07-Mec-A1 Applied Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer, May 2014. Open-book, 3-hour paper. Part A (Thermodynamics, Q1–Q4) and Part B (Heat Transfer, Q5–Q8); a complete paper is any five questions — three from one part and two from the other, all of equal value. Full worked solutions to all eight questions are given below.

Reference texts: Çengel & Boles, Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach (9th ed., McGraw-Hill) — closed- and open-system energy balances, steam tables, gas power cycles, reciprocating compressors and vapour-compression refrigeration; Çengel & Ghajar, Heat and Mass Transfer (6th ed.) and Incropera, DeWitt, Bergman & Lavine, Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer (8th ed., Wiley) — composite-wall conduction, internal-flow and cross-flow convection correlations, natural convection with radiation, and the ε–NTU heat-exchanger method. Freon-12 property data are taken from the appendix supplied with the exam; steam and air data from standard tables.