A piston cylinder device containing 0.5 kg of water has initial volume of 0.5L. The device...

A piston cylinder device containing 0.5 kg of water has initial volume of 0.5L. The device starts and goes through a Carnot cycle and generates 500.3 kJ work. If the maximum temperature that water will reach is 1.5 times the minimum temperature of water and during heat rejection process, water goes from saturated vapor to saturated liquid phase. Find:

1. QH & QL for this cycle .

2. TH & TL for this cycle.

3. Maximum and minimum pressures that the cycle will reach.

4. Show this process on a T-v diagram and label temperature, pressures and specific volumes.

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