This problem is describing a pump from which water is discharged at 1 MPa and 165 °C and is asking for the specific volume and internal energy at those conditions, thus, we can use the steam tables for resolving this requirement.
First of all, we need to remember that water can be a saturated liquid, vapour or liquid-vapour mixture, and this is determined for the temperature and pressure it is at.
In this case, we find that at 165 °C the saturation pressure is about 0.6178 MPa; this means we are referring to a saturated liquid so that both the specific volume and internal energy can be simply read from the steam tables as vf and uf as follows:
[tex]v=0.001127\frac{m^3}{kg}\\\\u=761.67 \frac{kJ}{kg}[/tex]
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