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Chapter 1 Problem 38P

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Problem 38P

A student buys a 5000 Btu window air conditioner for his apartment bedroom. He monitors it for one hour on a hot day and determines that it operates approximately 60 percent of the time (duty cycle = 60 percent) to keep the room at nearly constant temperature. (a) Showing all your work and using unity conversion ratios, calculate the rate of heat transfer into the bedroom through the walls, windows, etc. in units of Btu/h and in units of kW. (b) If the energy efficiency  ratio (EER) of the air conditioner is 9.0 and electricity costs 7.5 cents per kilowatt-hr, calculate how much it costs (in cents) for him to run the air conditioner for one hour.

Solution

Part (a)

Step 1:

        Amount of heat E = 5000 Btu

        Time of operation of the air conditioner t = 1 h

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Title Fluid Mechanics 2 
Author Yunus A. Cengel, John M. Cimbala
ISBN 9780071284219

A student buys a 5000 Btu window air conditioner for his

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