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A student living in a 4-m × 6-m × 6-m dormitory room turns on her
150-W fan before she leaves the room on a summer day, hoping that
the room will be cooler when she comes
back in the evening. Assuming all the doors and windows are tightly
closed and disregarding any heat trans-fer through the walls and
the windows, determine the temperature in the
room when she comes back 10 h later. Use specific heat values at
room temperature, and assume the room to be at 100 kPa and 15°C in
the morning when she
leaves.
Since all the doors and windows are tightly closed.
The system is closed
No change in volume
The fluid is air
Air is considered to be an ideal gas
All the values taken from the ideal gas air table
Initial conditions
T1 = 15 + 273 = 288 K
P1 = 100 kPa
Internal energy U1 = - 7.22 kJ/kg
Volume V = 4 m × 6-m × 6-m = 144 m3
Specific volume v = RT1/P1 = (0.287)(288)/(100)
= 0.8266 m3/kg
Mass = V/v
= 144 m3 / 0.8266 m3/kg
= 174 kg
Energy conservation equation
U2 - U1 = Q + W
For adiabatic case, Q = 0 (disregarding any heat transfer)
U2 = U1 + W*t/m
= - 7.22 kJ/kg + (150*10^-3 kJ/s x 10 hr x 3600s/hr)/(174kg)
= 23.81kJ/kg
Now find the temperature at this internal energy from the table
Temperature T2 = 330.9 K = 57.9 °C
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