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This section includes 13 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Thermodynamics knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
1. |
A rock bed(at 70 C) consists of 6000 kg granite. A house with mass of 12000 kg wood and 1000 kg iron is at 15 C. They are brought to a uniform final temperature. Find the irreversibility of the process, assuming an ambient temperature of 15 C. |
A. | 17191 kJ |
B. | 18191 kJ |
C. | 19191 kJ |
D. | 20191 kJ |
Answer» C. 19191 kJ | |
2. |
A 2-kg piece of iron is heated from temperature 25 C to 400 C by a heat source which is at 600 C. What is the irreversibility in the process? |
A. | 96.4 kJ |
B. | 86.4 kJ |
C. | 76.4 kJ |
D. | 66.4 kJ |
Answer» B. 86.4 kJ | |
3. |
A heat exchanger increases the availability of 3 kg/s water by 1650 kJ/kg by using 10 kg/s air which comes in at 1400 K and leaves with 600 kJ/kg less availability. What is the irreversibility? |
A. | 1020 kW |
B. | 1030 kW |
C. | 1040 kW |
D. | 1050 kW |
Answer» E. | |
4. |
If two streams with equal temperature are mixing, then the entropy generation number becomes |
A. | 0 |
B. | 1 |
C. | -1 |
D. | infinity |
Answer» B. 1 | |
5. |
Entropy generation number can be given by |
A. | (rate of entropy generation)*(mass flow rate/specific heat) |
B. | (rate of entropy generation)/(mass flow rate/specific heat) |
C. | (rate of entropy generation)*(mass flow rate*specific heat) |
D. | (rate of entropy generation)/(mass flow rate*specific heat) |
Answer» E. | |
6. |
The decrease in availability or lost work is proportional to |
A. | pressure drop |
B. | mass flow rate |
C. | both of the mentioned |
D. | none of the mentioned |
Answer» D. none of the mentioned | |
7. |
Heat transfer through a finite temperature difference is equivalent to the destruction of its exergy. |
A. | true |
B. | false |
Answer» B. false | |
8. |
A thermodynamically efficient process would involve ____ exergy loss with ____ rate of entropy generation. |
A. | minimum, minimum |
B. | maximum, maximum |
C. | minimum, maximum |
D. | maximum, minimum |
Answer» B. maximum, maximum | |
9. |
The quantity [To*( Ssystem + Ssurroundings)] represents an increase in |
A. | available energy |
B. | unavailable energy |
C. | exergy |
D. | all of the mentioned |
Answer» C. exergy | |
10. |
For irreversibility, same expression applies to both flow and non-flow processes. |
A. | true |
B. | false |
Answer» B. false | |
11. |
For a non-flow process between equilibrium states, when the system exchanges heat only with the environment |
A. | I=0 |
B. | I>0 |
C. | I<0 |
D. | I>=0 |
Answer» E. | |
12. |
Irreversibility(I) is also called |
A. | degradation |
B. | dissipation |
C. | both of the mentioned |
D. | none of the mentioned |
Answer» D. none of the mentioned | |
13. |
The actual work done by a system is always ____ than the reversible work, and the difference between the two is called ____ of the process. |
A. | more, irreversibility |
B. | less, irreversibility |
C. | more, reversibility |
D. | less, reversible |
Answer» C. more, reversibility | |