Ch 21: Heat Engines and Refrigerators
Chapter 21, Problem 21
100 mL of water at 15℃ is placed in the freezer compartment of a refrigerator with a coefficient of performance of 4.0. How much heat energy is exhausted into the room as the water is changed to ice at -15℃?
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A nuclear power plant generates 3000 MW of heat energy from nuclear reactions in the reactor's core. This energy is used to boil water and produce high-pressure steam at 300℃. The steam spins a turbine, which produces 1000 MW of electric power, then the steam is condensed and the water is cooled to 25℃ before starting the cycle again.
b. What is the plant's actual efficiency?
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FIGURE P21.57 shows the cycle for a heat engine that uses a gas having r = 1.25. The initial temperature is T₁ = 300 K, and this engine operates at 20 cycles per second.
a. What is the power output of the engine?
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Home air conditioners in the United States have their power specified in the truly obscure units of tons, where 1 ton is the power needed to melt 1 ton (2000 lb or 910 kg) of ice in 24 hours. A modest-size house typically has a 4.0 ton air conditioner. If a 4.0 ton air conditioner has a coefficient of performance of 2.5, a typical value, at what rate in kW is heat energy removed from the house?
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Which, if any, of the heat engines in FIGURE EX21.22 violate (a) the first law of thermodynamics or (b) the second law of thermodynamics? Explain.
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The heat engine shown in FIGURE P21.62 uses 2.0 mol of a monatomic gas as the working substance.
b. Make a table that shows ∆Eₜₕ, Wₛ, and Q for each of the three processes.
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At what cold-reservoir temperature (in ℃) would a Carnot engine with a hot-reservoir temperature of 427℃ have an efficiency of 60%?
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