A car tyre of volume 0.057 m3 is inflated to 300 kPa at 300 K. After the car is driven for 10 hours, the pressure in the tyre increases to 330 kPa. Assume air is an ideal gas and Cv for air is 21 J/mole.K. The change in the internal energy of air in the tyre in J/mole is__________________?

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1. For water at 300°C, it has a vapour pressure 8592.7 kPa and fugacity 6738.9 kPa Under these conditions, one mole of water in liquid phase has a volume of 25.28 cm3 and that in vapour phase in 391.1 cm3.Fugacity of water (in kPa) at 9000 kPa will be__________________?

   A. 6738.9
   B. 6753.5
   C. 7058.3
   D. 9000

2. Pure aniline is evaporating through a stagnant air film of 1 mm thickness at 300 K and a total pressure of 100 KPa. The vapor pressure of aniline at 300 K is 0.1 KPa. The total molar concentration under these conditions is 40.1 mole/m3. The diffusivity of aniline in air is 0.74 × 10-5m2/s. The numerical value of mass transfer co-efficient is 7.4 × 10-3. Its units are_______________________?

   A. m/s
   B. cm/s
   C. mole/m2.s.Pa
   D. k.mole/m2.s.Pa

3. At 60° C, vapour pressure of methanol and water are 84.562 kPa and 19.953 kPa respectively. An aqueous solution of methanol at 60° C exerts a pressure of 39.223 kPa; the liquid phase and vapour phase mole fractions of methanol are 0.1686 and 0.5714 respectively. Activity co-efficient of methanol is__________________?

   A. 1.572
   B. 1.9398
   C. 3.389
   D. 4.238

4. A vessel of volume 1000 m3 contains air which is saturated with water vapour. The total pressure and temperature are 100 kPa and 20°C respectively. Assuming that the vapour pressure of water at 20°C is 2.34 kPa, the amount of water vapour (in kg) in the vessel is approximately ?

   A. 17
   B. 20
   C. 25
   D. 34

5. The accumulation in a steady state combustion process, burning 1 kg mole of carbon with 1 kg mole of oxygen thereby producing 1 kg mole of carbon dioxide, is _____________ kg mole?

   A. 1
   B. 0
   C. 16
   D. 44

6. One mole of methane undergoes complete combustion in a stoichiometric amount of air. The reaction proceeds as CH4 + 2O2 → CO2 + 2H2O. Both the reactants and products are in gas phase. ΔH°298 = – 730 kJ/mole of methane. Mole fraction of water vapour in the product gases is about_____________________?

   A. 0.19
   B. 0.33
   C. 0.40
   D. 0.67

7. Fugacity of a component in an ideal gas mixture is equal to the partial pressure of that component in the mixture. The fugacity of each component in a stable homogeneous solution at constant pressure and temperature ____________ as its mole fraction increases?

   A. Decreases
   B. Decreases exponentially
   C. Increases
   D. Remain constant

8. Pressure-enthalpy chart is useful in refrigeration. The change in internal energy of an ideal fluid used in ideal refrigeration cycle is_____________________?

   A. Positive
   B. Negative
   C. Zero
   D. Infinity

9. A rigid vessel containing three moles of nitrogen gas at 30°C is heated to 250°C. Assume the average capacities of nitrogen to be Cp = 29.1 J/mole.°C and, Cv = 20.8 J/mole.°C. The heat required, neglecting the heat capacity of the vessel, is__________________?

   A. 13728 J
   B. 19206 J
   C. 4576 J
   D. 12712 J

10. Heat capacity of air can be approximately expressed as, Cp = 26.693 + 7.365 x10-3 T, where, Cp is in J/mole.K and T is in K. The heat given off by 1 mole of air when cooled at atmospheric pressure from 500°C to – 100°C is ____________________?

    A. 10.73 kJ
    B. 16.15 kJ
    C. 18.11 kJ
    D. 18.33 kJ