Your company wishes to compress air from 101.3 kPa and 27C to 726 kPa. Your boss...

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Your company wishes to compress air from 101.3 kPa and 27°C to 726 kPa. Your boss suggests that you use a reversible, rotary compressor powered by an existing motor which can provide 186 kW power input. They are searching for the most effective design and suggest operating the compressor isothermally which requires a cooling water jacket. Assume air is an ideal gas with constant specific heats. what is mass flow rate of air? how much energy (in the form of heat transfer) must be absorbed by the water jacket to assure isothermal operation? Your company wishes to compress air from 101.3 kPa and 27°C to 726 kPa. Your boss suggests that you use a reversible, rotary compressor powered by an existing motor which can provide 186 kW power input. They are searching for the most effective design and suggest operating the compressor isothermally which requires a cooling water jacket. Assume air is an ideal gas with constant specific heats. what is mass flow rate of air? how much energy (in the form of heat transfer) must be absorbed by the water jacket to assure isothermal operation?

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To determine the mass flow rate of air we can use the ideal gas law PV nRT where P is the pressure V is the volume n is the number of moles of gas R i... View the full answer