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    This document contains answers to homework problems from a CHE 303 class. Problem 1 provides answers regarding filling a gas cylinder with ethane from a high pressure supply line. Problem 2 shows that the speed of sound is equal to a particular expression involving molecular weight. Problem 3 gives an expression for the speed of sound in air and calculates how far away lightning is based on hearing thunder 4 seconds after seeing the flash.

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    CHE 303 (Answers for Homework)

    Answers for problem set #5, Winter 2009

    1. (5.22) Consider filling a gas cylinder with ethane from a high-pressure supply line.
    Before filling, the cylinder is empty (vacuum). The valve is then opened, exposing the
    tank to a 3-MPa line at 500oK until the pressure of the cylinder reaches 3 MPa. The valve
    is then closed. The volume of the cylinder is 50 L. For ethane, use the truncated virial
    equation of state, in pressure:

    z= = 1 + B’P, where B’ =  2.810-8 [m3/J]

    (a) What is the temperature immediately after the valve is closed?


    (b) If the cylinder then sits in storage at 293 oK for a long time, what is the entropy change of the
    universe (from the original unfilled, state)?

    Ans:

    (b)
    2. (5.35) The speed of sound, Vsound [m/s], is formally equal to the partial derivative of
    pressure with respect to density at constant entropy:

    Show that where MW is the molecular weight.

    Ans:
    3. (5.36) Based on the definition , use the thermodynamic web to come up
    with an expression for [Vsound] in air. What is the value of [Vsound] in air at 20oC? You may
    consider air to be an ideal gas with cp = (7/2)R. Based on this result, how far away is a
    bolt of lightning if you hear the thunder four seconds after you see the lightning.

    Ans:

    The lightening bolt is 1360 m away.

    4. (5.401) Gas A expands through an adiabatic turbine. The inlet stream flows in at 100 bar
    and 600oK while the outlet is at 20 bar and 445 oK. Calculate the work produced by the
    turbine. The following data are available for gas A. The ideal gas heat capacity for this
    process is

    cp = 30.0 + 0.02T, where cp is in [J/moloK] and T is in [oK].

    PvT data has been fit to the following equation

    p(v  b) = RT +

    where a = 0.001 [Km3/(barmol)] and b = 810-5 [m3/mol].

    Solution

    100 Pi ,Ti
    ideal gas

    P [bar]
    step 1

    h

    Pf ,Tf
    20
    step 3

    step 2
    Plow

    445 600 T [K]

    In other words, for every mole of gas that flows through the turbine, 8487 joules of work are
    produced.
    5. (6.121) Pure ethanol boils at a temperature of 63.5 oC at a pressure of 400 torr. It also
    boils at 78.4oC and 760 torr. Estimate the saturation pressure for ethanol at 100oC.

    Solution

    In comparison, ThermoSolver gives a value of 2.23 atm, using the Antoine equation.
    6. (6.141) At 922oK, the enthalpy of liquid Mg is 26.780 [kJ/mol] and the entropy is 73.888
    [kJ/mol]. Determine the Gibbs energy of liquid Mg at 1300oK. The heat capacity of the
    liquid is constant over this temperature range and has a value of 32.635 [J/moloK].

    Solution

    7. (6.151) Solid sulfur undergoes a phase transition between the monoclinic (m) and
    orthorhombic (o) phases at a temperature of 368.3 oK and pressure of 1 bar. Calculate the
    difference in Gibbs energy between monoclinic sulfur and orthorhombic sulfur at 298 oK
    and a pressure of 1 bar. Which phase is more stable at 298 oK? Take the entropy in each
    phase to be given by the following expression:

    Monoclinic phase: sm = 13.8 + 0.066T [J/moloK]

    Monoclinic phase: so = 11.0 + 0.071T [J/moloK]

    Solution

    monoclinic orthorhombic

    T = 298 [K]

    g1 g3

    T = 368.3 [K]

    monoclinic g = 0 orthorhombic
    2

    Therefore, the transition from the monoclinic to orthorhombic state occurs spontaneously. The
    orthorhombic state is more stable.

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