Accounting for variation of specific heats with temperature

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An air-standard Diesel cycle has a compression ratio of 18.2. Air is at 27°C and 100 kpa at the beginning of the compression process and at 1700 K at the end of the heat-addition process.

Accounting for the variation of specific heats with temperature, determine

(a) The cut off ratio,

(b) The heat rejection per unit mass, and

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