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101.
How does a heat exchanger
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102.
What is the function of a turbine in power plants?
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103.
What is a Stirling engine?
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104.
How does thermodynamics apply to energy storage systems?
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105.
What is meant by specific heat
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106.
How does combustion occur in a thermal system?
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107.
What is thermal expansion, and how does it affect materials?
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108.
What are refrigerants, and why are they important?
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109.
Explain the working of an air conditioning system.
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110.
What is the function of an evaporator in a refrigeration system?
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111.
What is relative humidity?
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112.
What is psychrometry?
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113.
What is the working principle of an absorption refrigeration system?
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114.
What is the difference between a heat pump and a refrigerator?
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115.
What is a coefficient of performance (COP) in refrigeration?
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116.
Explain the working principle of a vapor compression refrigeration cycle.
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117.
What is a refrigeration cycle?
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118.
What is a steam boiler, and what are its types?
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119.
How does a steam turbine work?
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120.
What is the critical point in steam properties?
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121.
Explain the concept of saturation temperature and pressure.
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122.
What is latent heat of vaporization?
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123.
What are steam tables, and how do they help in thermodynamic calculations?
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124.
What is a Mollier diagram, and how is it used?
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125.
What is steam quality, and why is it important?
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126.
Define dry steam, wet steam, and superheated steam.
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127.
What is steam, and how is it generated?
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128.
How does waste heat recovery improve efficiency in power plants?
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129.
What is the working principle of a nuclear power plant?
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130.
What are the advantages of a cogeneration system?
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131.
What is the significance of a combined cycle power plant?
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132.
What is meant by thermal efficiency of a heat engine?
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133.
Explain the working principle of a diesel engine.
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134.
What is a gas turbine power plant?
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135.
How does a steam power plant work?
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136.
What are the two main types of heat engines?
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137.
What is a heat engine?
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138.
How do real gases deviate from ideal gases?
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139.
What is the compressibility factor?
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140.
How does Avogadro’s law relate to gases?
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141.
What is Dalton’s law of partial pressures?
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142.
What is the significance of the specific heat ratio (γ)?
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143.
Explain the combined gas law.
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144.
What is Charles’s law?
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145.
Explain Boyle’s law with an example.
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146.
is the ideal gas law equation?
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147.
What is an ideal gas?
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148.
Explain the concept of regeneration in thermodynamic cycles.
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149.
What is meant by thermal efficiency?
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150.
What is the difference between the Otto cycle and Diesel cycle?
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151.
Explain the working of an Otto cycle.
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152.
What is a Brayton cycle?
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153.
How is efficiency calculated in the Rankine cycle?
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154.
What is the Rankine cycle?
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155.
What are the assumptions made in Carnot cycle analysis?
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156.
Explain the Carnot cycle and its significance.
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157.
What is a thermodynamic cycle?
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158.
What is the principle of increase of entropy?
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159.
What is entropy balance, and how is it applied?
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160.
How is entropy related to the irreversibility of a process?
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161.
What is the difference between exergy and anergy?
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162.
How does entropy affect the efficiency of thermodynamic systems?
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163.
What is an isentropic process?
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164.
Define exergy and explain its significance.
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165.
What is entropy generation, and when does it occur?
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166.
Explain the concept of entropy change in a closed system.
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167.
What is entropy, and why is it called a measure of disorder?
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168.
What is Fourier’s law of heat conduction?
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169.
What is convection, conduction, and radiation?
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170.
Explain the concept of thermal conductivity.
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171.
What are polytropic processes? Give examples.
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172.
What is meant by reversible and irreversible processes?
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173.
What is enthalpy, and why is it important?
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174.
Explain the concept of internal energy in a thermodynamic system.
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175.
What is the difference between heat and work in thermodynamics?
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176.
What are the different types of work interactions in thermodynamic processes?
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177.
Define work and heat in thermodynamics.
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178.
How does the third law of thermodynamics affect absolute zero temperature?
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179.
What is the third law of thermodynamics?
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180.
Explain the Kelvin-Planck statement of the second law of thermodynamics.
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181.
What is the Clausius statement of the second law of thermodynamics?
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182.
Explain the concept of perpetual motion machines of the first and second kind.
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183.
What is entropy, and how does it relate to the second law of thermodynamics?
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184.
Explain the second law of thermodynamics with an example.
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185.
What is the significance of the first law of thermodynamics in energy conservation?
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186.
How does the first law of thermodynamics apply to a closed system?
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187.
What is the first law of thermodynamics?
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188.
Define specific heat at constant volume and specific heat at constant pressure.
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189.
What is meant by a quasi-static process?
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190.
How does temperature measurement relate to the zeroth law of thermodynamics?
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191.
What is the zeroth law of thermodynamics?
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192.
What are state functions and path functions? Give examples.
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193.
Define intensive and extensive properties of a system.
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194.
What do you mean by a thermodynamic equilibrium?
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195.
What is the difference between an open system, closed system, and isolated system?
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196.
What are the different types of thermodynamic systems?
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197.
What is thermodynamics, and why is it important in mechanical engineering?