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Thread: First law of thermodynamics! Simple yet complex question

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    bianca1992
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    First law of thermodynamics! Simple yet complex question

    Hi all I am really struggling with my worked example at my placement. Please help! My answers are awfully wrong.

    A pump compressing hydrogen from a low pressure to a high pressure tank where the tanks pressure is constant and H2 is an ideal gas.
    Hydrogen: (H2: MW = 2, Cv = 10 kJ/kgK)
    Low pressure tank: (P = 4 bar, T = 30oC)
    High pressure tank: (P = 100 bar).

    1) Apply the first law of thermodynamics eliminating terms not needed
    2) Find the compressor outlet temp when the compression goes along an adiabatic and polytrophic process

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    dQ=CvdT+PdV energy equation statement of 1st Law
    PdV+VdP=nRdT-= gas law
    Next prove
    Cp=Cv+nR

    Now from these you should be able to get
    PV^k= constant when dQ=0
    k=Cp/Cv

    I gave you more than I should have to get you started
    Now you do the rest of your homework..

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