The temperature of 5 pounds of water is 40 degrees. Btus are added until the temp of
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In this case, it is possible to solve this problem by using the widely-known steam tables which show that at 90 °C, the pressure that produces a vapor-liquid mixture at equilibrium is about 70.183 kPa (Cengel, Thermodynamics 5th edition).
Moreover, for the calculation of the volume, it is necessary to calculate the volume of the vapor-liquid mixture, given the quality (x) it has:
Thus, since 8 kg correspond to liquid water, 2 kg must correspond to steam, so that the quality turns out:
Now, at this temperature and pressure, the volume of a saturated vapor is 2.3593 m³/kg whereas that of the saturated liquid is 0.001036 m³/kg and therefore, the volume of the mixture is:
This means that the volume of the container will be:
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