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Steam enters an adiabatic turbine at 800 psia and 900F and leaves at a pressure of 40 psia. Determine the amount of work that can be delivered by this turbine.
How to calculate the following: a = hydrogen partial pressure in the humidified fuel gas b = oxygen partial pressure in the humidified air Partially humidified H2 (with relative humidity 50%) of as
Determine the thermal efficiency of the system assuming isentropic operations for all compressor and turbine stages and using constant specific heats at room temperature.
Determine the back work ratio and the thermal efficiency of the cycle, assuming (a) no regenerator is used and (b) a regenerator with 75% effectiveness is used.
For a turbine efficiency of 86%, determine (a) the amount of heat transfer in the regenerator and (b) the thermal efficiency of the cycle.
What is the rate of flow of cooling water through the condenser? The velocity of the steam flowing from the turbine to the condenser is limited to a maximum 400 ft/sec.
Determine: Steam enters (a) the velocity at the exit, in m/s (b) the rate of heat transfer from the pipe, in kW. (c) the rate of entropy generation, in kW/K, for a control volume comprising only the
A package is dropped from the plane which is flying with a constant horizontal velocity of VA = 160 ft/s at a height h = 1600 ft.
Calculate the critical load Pcr for the following end conditions: (a) pinned-pinned, (b) fixed-free, (c) fixed-pinned, and (d) fixed-fixed.
Describe this structure as a lattice and a basis. The Cu3Au crystal structure is similar to the FCC crystal structure, but it does not have the face-centered cubic lattice.
Determine: the maximum load that can be carried by the member. the change in length of the member, if its original length was 4. 0 feet.
Knowing that 1 L (i.e. one liter) of regular gas provides 34.8 MJ of energy, how many liters of gasoline will be required in one hour if the speed has an efficiency of 20%?
Find the heat flux through the wall in SI units. Find the temperature of the exposed (outer ) surface. Plot the temperature distrubution in the wall.
Explain why this is consistent with our definition of Poisson's ratio equal to the ratio of perpendicular strain to parallel strain.
Air enters the 1.5 m2 inlet of an aircraft engine at 100kPa and 10°C with a velocity of 200m/s. Determine the volume flow rate, in m3/min, at the engine inlet and the mass flow rate, in kg/s, a
A Carnot heat engine receives 1200 kJ of heat per cycle from a high-temperature source at 925°C and rejects heat to a low-temperature sink at 15°C.
Determine the magnitudes of the velocity v and acceleration a of the corner A by (a) using the scalar relations and (b) using the vector relations.
The triangular plate rotates about a fixed axis through point O with the angular properties indicated, Determine the instantaneous velocity and acceleration of point A.
A paddle wheel with a power rating of .2 hp is run inside the tank for 30 min. Determine a.) the final temperature in deg F b.) the final pressure in the tank in psi.
What power must the output power of the jeep be to travel up the incline at 15m/s? Assume that the efficiency of the Jeep's power train is 20%. What power input is required to achieve the required o
What is the maximum velocity that the car can achieve before the tires begin to slip? How long will it take to reach that velocity from the instant the rocket is fired?
If the second heat engine consumes 48 tons/hour of biomass and has a power output of 80 MW, determine the thermal efficiency, amount of wasted heat, and the heat supplied from the heat source.
Determine (a) The shaft torque required to prevent the sprinkler from rotating. (b) The rotational speed of the sprinkler if the resisting torque is zero.
Determine the radius "r" of an impurity atom that will fit into a tetrahedral site of BCC iron(R=1.241 angstroms) crystal structure.