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An idealized diesel engine operates in a cycle known as air standard diesel cycle as shown. Fuel is sprayed into the cylinder at the the point of maximum compression B. Combustion occurs during expansion BC.

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Important Questions on Thermodynamics

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A Carnot engine, having an efficiency of η=110 as heat engine, is used as a refrigerator. If the work done on the system is 10 J, the amount of energy absorbed from the reservoir at a lower temperature is:
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A solid body of constant heat capacity 1 J -1 is being heated by keeping it in contact with reservoirs in two ways: (i) Sequentially keeping in contact with 2 reservoirs such that each reservoir supplies the same amount of heat. (ii) Sequentially keeping in contact with 8 reservoirs such that each reservoir supplies the same amount of heat. In both, cases the body is brought from initial temperature 100 K to final temperature 200 K . Entropy change of the body in the two cases respectively is: Note: This question was awarded as a bonus since temperatures were given in centigrade instead of in Kelvin. Proper corrections are made in the question to avoid it.
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Two carnot engines A and B are operated in series. The first one, A, receives heat at T1=600K and rejects to a reservoir at temperature T2. The second engine B receives heat rejected by the first engine and, in turn, rejects to a heat reservoir at T3=400K. Calculate the temperature T2 if the work outputs of the two engines are equal:
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A Carnot engine having an efficiency of 110 is being used as a refrigerator. If the work done on the refrigerator is 10 J, the amount of heat absorbed from the reservoir at a lower temperature is
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An ice cube of mass 30 g at 00C is left sitting on the kitchen table where it gradually melts and reaches the kitchen temperature of 250C. The latent heat of fusion for ice is 333 J·g-1 and the specific heat of water is 4.2 J·g-1·K-1. Select the correct statement(s) about this process. (All numerical values in the answers are rounded to the closest integer.)
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A Carnot engine has an efficiency of 16. When the temperature of the sink is reduced by 62  , its efficiency is doubled. The temperatures of the source and the sink are, respectively,
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Three Carnot engines operate in series between a heat source at a temperature T1 and a heat sink at temperature T4 (see figure). There are two other reservoirs at temperature T2 and T3, as shown, with T1>T2>T3>T4. The three engines are equally efficient if:

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Helium gas goes through a cycle ABCDA (consisting of two isochoric and two isobaric lines) as shown in figure. The efficiency of this cycle is approximately

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A car engine has a power of 20 kW. The car makes a roundtrip of 1 hour. If the thermal efficiency of the engine is 40% and the ambient temperature is 300 K. The energy generated by fuel combustion is
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The efficiency of an ideal heat engine working between the freezing point and boiling point of water, is
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A heat engine is involved with exchange of heat of 1915 J, 40 J, +125 J and Q J, during one cycle achieving and efficiency of 50.0%. The value of Q is:  
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What will be the efficiency of a Carnot engine if it takes heat from reservoir, at 100°C and rejects heat to a sink at, 50°C ?
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An engine operates by taking a monatomic ideal gas through the cycle shown in the figure. The percentage efficiency of the engine is close to

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A Carnot engine operates between two reservoirs of temperatures 900K and 300K . The engine performs 1200J of work per cycle. The heat energy (in J ) delivered by the engine to the low temperature reservoir, in a cycle, is _____________
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A reservoir is at 827 °C and Carnot's engine takes a thousand kilocalorie of heat from it and exhausts it to a sink at 27 °C. What is the amount of work and the efficiency of the engine?
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The efficiency of carnot engine is η when its hot and cold reservoirs are maintained at temperature T1 and T2, respectively. To increase the efficiency to 1.5 η, the increase in temperature ΔT of the hot reservoir by keeping the cold one constant at T2 is
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Two carnot engines A and B are connected in series in such a way that the work outputs are equal when the temperatures of hot and cold reservoirs of A are 800 K and T, and of engine B are T and 300 K, respectively. Then the temperature T is
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A Carnot's engine works like a refrigerator between 250 K and 300 K. It receives 500 cal heat from the reservoir at a lower temperature. The amount of work done in each cycle to operate the refrigerator is,
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For which of the following processes, entropy change is zero?
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Entropy of the universe tends to be