Question: ( 1 ) Nitrogen in a piston is expanded at a constant pressure of 1 0 0 bar from a molar volume of 0 .

(1) Nitrogen in a piston is expanded at a constant pressure of 100 bar from a molar volume of 0.0001 m3/mol to a molar volume of 0.0003 m3/mol. Treat the nitrogen as a van der Waals gas with a =0.1368 and b =3.864 x 10-5
(a) What is the temperature of the gas at the beginning and end of the process?
(b) Derive the enthalpy departure function for the van der Waals equation of state. Hint: you will want to use the compressibility-factor form of the equation of state along with equation 8.24 in the text.
(c) Compute the amount of heat that must be added in this process. Use the polynomial heat capacity for nitrogen in the book.
(d) How much work is done by this process?
(e) What is the thermal efficiency of this process (i.e. what fraction of heat in is converted to work?)

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