In its natural state, a soil weighs 2800 lb/cy, while in the loose and compacted states, it weighs 2500 lb/cy and 3300 lb/cy, respectively. a. Find the load and shrinkage factors for this soil. b. How many trucks loads with a capacity of 5 lcy/truck would be required to haul 750,000 ccy of this soil to a project

An air compression refrigeration system is to have an air pressure of 100 psia in the brine tank and an allowable air temperature increase of 60°f for standard vapor compression cycle temperatures of 77 f entering the expansion cylinder and 14 f entering the compression cylinder, calculate the coefficient of performance a. 2.5 b 3.3 c. 4.0 d. 5.0

For each of the following process: a) sketch the p-v diagram, b)sketch t-s diagram, c) sketch t-v diagram, d) sketch the boundary work on one of the diagrams (a, b or c) and e) sketch the reversible heat transfer on one of the diagrams (a, b or c): 1- isobaric process from compressed liquid to superheated vapor 2- isothermal process from compressed liquid to superheated vapor 3- isentropic process from compressed liquid to superheated vapor

How to increase the thermal officiency of an ideal simple rankino cycle? among these methods, which one is the best and why?