Thermodynamics MCQ

1. What is the SI unit of the volume of a component in a gas mixture?

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Correct Answer: Component volume

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2. What is the pressure a component in a gas mixture would have if it existed alone at the volume and temperature of the mixture?

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Correct Answer: Component pressure

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3. What does all the sulphur burn to during a complete combustion process?

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Correct Answer: SO2

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4. What is defined as the amount of heat released during combustion divided by the heating value of the fuel?

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Correct Answer: Combustion efficiency

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5. When is combustion air considered dry?

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Correct Answer: 21 percent oxygen and 79 percent nitrogen

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6. What percentage of air is nitrogen?

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Correct Answer: 79 percent

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7. What is the process of combustion?

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Correct Answer: A chemical reaction

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8. What is the process during which a fuel is oxidized?

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Correct Answer: Combustion

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9. What is the turbine that drives the gas cycle in the combined cycle?

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Correct Answer: Brayton

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10. What is the temperature of room air?

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Correct Answer: 25°C, or 77°F

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11. What is the name of the assumption that determines the values of the specific heats of the air at room temperature?

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Correct Answer: Cold-air-standard assumption

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12. What is the production of more than one useful form of energy called?

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Correct Answer: Cogeneration

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13. What are two forms of energy that can be produced through cogeneration?

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Correct Answer: Process heat and electric power

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14. What is the measure of performance of refrigerators and heat pumps?

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Correct Answer: Coefficient of performance

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15. What term describes a control system that has a fixed amount of mass and no mass can cross its boundary?

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Correct Answer: Closed system

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16. What is the name of a feedwater heater in which heat is transferred from the extracted steam to the feedwater without any mixing taking place?

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Correct Answer: Closed feedwater heater

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17. When is the clearance volume reached?

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Correct Answer: Top dead center

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18. What is the minimum volume formed in the cylinder when the piston is at top dead center?

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Correct Answer: Clearance volume

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19. What does the law say must be impossible to construct?

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Correct Answer: A device that operates in a cycle

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20. Who wrote the second law?

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Correct Answer: Clausius

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21. What is the name of the inequality first stated by R.J.E. Clausius?

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Correct Answer: Clausius inequality

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22. Who first stated the Clausius inequality?

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Correct Answer: R. J. E. Clausius

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23. What does the term "Classical thermodynamics" mean?

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Correct Answer: The macroscopic approach to the study of thermodynamics

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24. What discipline studies the macroscopic behavior of thermodynamics?

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Correct Answer: Classical thermodynamics

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25. Who relates the Clapeyron equation?

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Correct Answer: E. Clapeyron

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26. What is the name of the equation that relates the enthalpy change associated with a phase change?

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Correct Answer: Clapeyron equation

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27. What is used to determine the variation of saturation pressure with temperature?

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Correct Answer: Clapeyron-Clausius equation

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28. What kind of equation is used to determine the variation of saturation pressure with temperature?

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Correct Answer: Clapeyron-Clausius

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29. When is choked flow likely to occur?

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Correct Answer: When the mass flow reaches a maximum value

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30. What type of flow occurs when the mass flow reaches a maximum value?

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Correct Answer: Choked flow

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31. What does chemical potential measure?

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Correct Answer: Change in the Gibbs function

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32. What is the Gibbs function of a mixture?

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Correct Answer: Chemical potential

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33. What is the correct amount of air for a fire extinguisher?

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Correct Answer: 100 percent theoretical air

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34. 100% of what is the correct amount of air?

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Correct Answer: Theoretical air

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35. What do the reactants of a chemical equilibrium reaction need to be if the reaction is to proceed in both directions at the same rate?

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Correct Answer: Depleted

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36. What do the reactants or products of a chemical equilibrium reaction undergo depletion at?

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Correct Answer: Exactly the same rate as they are replenished

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37. What does chemical equilibrium establish in a system?

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Correct Answer: When its chemical composition does not change with time

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38. What does a system establish when its chemical composition does not change with time?

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Correct Answer: Chemical equilibrium

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39. What is the internal energy associated with?

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Correct Answer: Atomic bonds

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40. What is the internal energy associated with the atomic bonds in a molecule?

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Correct Answer: Chemical energy

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41. The points on the Celsius scale are assigned the values of 0 and 100 what?

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Correct Answer: °C

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42. What is the name of the scale used in the SI system?

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Correct Answer: Celsius scale

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43. What are cascade refrigeration cycles used for?

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Correct Answer: Perform the refrigeration process in stages

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44. What does the term "Carnot refrigerator" refer to?

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Correct Answer: A refrigerator that operates on the reversed Carnot cycle

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45. What can the coefficient of performance of the Carnot refrigerator be?

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Correct Answer: COPR

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46. What does it mean to be an engine?

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Correct Answer: Reversible and irreversible

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47. What are two conclusions that pertain to the thermal efficiency of reversible and irreversible heat engines?

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Correct Answer: Carnot principles

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48. What cycle does the Carnot heat pump operate on?

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Correct Answer: The reversed Carnot cycle

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49. What does the acronym for the type of heat pump mean?

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Correct Answer: Carnot

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50. What is the name of the heat pump that operates on the reversed Carnot cycle?

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Correct Answer: Carnot heat pump

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51. What is the coefficient of performance of the Carnot heat pump when operating between the two thermal energy reservoirs?

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Correct Answer: COPHP

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52. The theoretical heat engine operates on what cycle?

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Correct Answer: Carnot cycle

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53. What type of engine is the theoretical heat engine that operates on the Carnot cycle?

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Correct Answer: Carnot heat engine

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54. At what temperature would the efficiency of the engine operating between the reservoirs be called hcarnot efficiency?

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Correct Answer: TL

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55. What is the highest efficiency a heat engine operating between the two thermal energy reservoirs can have?

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Correct Answer: Carnot efficiency

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56. What type of system can the Carnot cycle be in?

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Correct Answer: Closed

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57. Who first proposed the Carnot cycle?

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Correct Answer: French engineer Sadi Carnot

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58. What year was the Carnot cycle first proposed?

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Correct Answer: 1824

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59. What is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 g of water by 1 °C?

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Correct Answer: Calorie

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60. The Btu is an example of what kind of energy unit?

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Correct Answer: Thermal

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61. What is the name of the cycle that allows the transfer of heat to the high pressure air leaving the compressor from the high-temperature exhaust gas leaving the turbine?

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Correct Answer: Brayton cycle

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62. What type of cycle is the Brayton cycle?

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Correct Answer: Open

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