In: Mechanical Engineering
Air within a piston cylinder assembly executes a Carnot
refrigeration cycle between hot and cold reservoirs at TH=500 K and
TC=300 K, respectively. The magnitude of the heat transfer rejected
to the high temperature reservoir is 250 kJ per kg of air. The
pressure at the start of the isothermal expansion is 325 kPa. The
air can be modeled as an ideal gas with constant specific
heat.
For the air as a system, determine
a. (5) the coefficient of performance.
b. (5) the net work input to the cycle in kJ/kg.
c. (10) the Pv and Ts diagrams for the cycle with arrows showing
the directions of the processes.