DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

College of Engineering and Agro-Industrial Technology

University of the Philippines Los Baos
College, Laguna 4031 Philippines Telefax No. (063) 49-536-2315

ChE 143 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING THERMODYNAMICS II

Prepared by: Prof. Myra G. Borines & Engr. Ria Migo

PROBLEM SET NO.3

1. Heat flows from the nuclear reactor to the boiler to produce saturated steam at a
pressure of 1050 psia. This steam flows to an adiabatic turbine, which exhausts at 1
psia. The turbine efficiency is 70% compared with isentropic operation. The exhaust
steam enters a condenser, from which it emerges as liquid water, slightly subcooled
to 100 0F. Heat is discarded from the condenser to the surroundings at 70 0F. the liquid
from the condenser is fed to an adiabatic pump of 80% efficiency, which raises its
pressure to that of the boiler, 1050 psia. The pump uses part of the work produced
by the turbine. If the plant has a rated capacity of 750,000 kW, determine the heat
discarded to the surroundings and the steam rate and make a thermodynamic
analysis of the process. Treat the nuclear reactor as a heat reservoir at 600 0F.

2. Methane gas is to be compressed from 100 psia and 80 0F to 500 psia. The compressor
is to operate adiabatically and is expected to have an efficiency of 80% compared with
isentropic compression. After compression, methane is cooled at constant pressure of
500 psia to a temperature of 100 0F. Data for methane is given below. Make a
thermodynamic analysis of the process when To= 80 0F.

P, psia Temperature, 0F H, Btu/lb Entropy, Btu/lbR

100 psia 80 407 1.450
At 500 psia
100 408 1.257
300 530.4 1.441
320 543.4 1.459
350 562.9 1.483
360 569.4 1.490

3. Natural gas as methane is liquefied in a simple Linde system as shown in the following
figure. The methane enters the compressor at 1 bar and 300 K and after compression
 to 60 bar is cooled back to 300 K. The product is saturated liquid methane at 1 bar.
The unliquefied methane, also at 1 bar, is returned through a heat exchanger where
it is heated to 295 K by the high-pressure methane. A heat leak of 5 kJ is assumed for
each kilogram of methane entering the compressor. Heat leaks to the part of the
liquefier are assumed negligible. Make a thermodynamic analysis of the process for a
surroundings temperature of T0=300 K.

Q from cooling Q from heat leak = 5 kJ

Methane 3 Throttle
2
fee valve
Compression/ 1
Heat
2

Methane
cooling Exchanger
1

1feed
d
6
Ws = 1000 kJ 2
5
Unliquefied CH4
1
2

z 4
2 2

Liquefied CH4
1 1

The following table shows the properties of methane at different points:

Point State T, K P, bar H, kJ/kg S, kJ/kgK

1 Superheated 300 1 1,199.8 11.629

vapor
2 Superheated 300 60 1,140.0 9.359
vapor
3 Superheated 207.1 60 772 7.798
vapor
4 Saturated liquid 111.5 1 285.4 4.962
5 Saturated vapor 111.5 1 796.9 9.523
6 Superheated 295 1 1,188.9 11.589
vapor