A power plant delivering 900 MWe has an efficiency of 30% with 15 percent of the waste heat being released to the atmosphere as stack heat and the other 85 percent taken away in the cooling water. This plant uses an evaporating cooling tower wherein heat is released to the atmosphere as cooling water is vaporized. Evaporative cooling Stack heat River Makeup water a. What is the total amount of heat supplied to the power plant (in MW)? Round off your answer to the nearest whole number. b. If the temperature of the makeup water from the river is 15 C, at what rate (in m3/s) should water be withdrawn to offset the water lost in the cooling tower? Heat of vaporization of water at 15 C is 2,465 kJ/kg. Round off your answer to two (2) decimal places
A power plant delivering 900 MWe has an efficiency of 30% with 15 percent of the waste heat being released to the atmosphere as stack heat and the other 85 percent taken away in the cooling water. This plant uses an evaporating cooling tower wherein heat is released to the atmosphere as cooling water is vaporized. Evaporative cooling Stack heat River Makeup water a. What is the total amount of heat supplied to the power plant (in MW)? Round off your answer to the nearest whole number. b. If the temperature of the makeup water from the river is 15 C, at what rate (in m3/s) should water be withdrawn to offset the water lost in the cooling tower? Heat of vaporization of water at 15 C is 2,465 kJ/kg. Round off your answer to two (2) decimal places
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![A power plant delivering 900 MWe has an efficiency of 30% with 15 percent of the waste heat being released to the atmosphere as stack heat and the other 85 percent taken away in the cooling water. This plant
uses an evaporating cooling tower wherein heat is released to the atmosphere as cooling water is vaporized.
Evaporative
cooling
Stack heat
River
Makeup water
a. What is the total amount of heat supplied to the power plant (in MW)? Round off your answer to the nearest whole number.
b. If the temperature of the makeup water from the river is 15 C, at what rate (in m3/s) should water be withdrawn to offset the water lost in the cooling tower? Heat of vaporization of water at 15 C is 2,465
kJ/kg. Round off your answer to two (2) decimal places](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2Fcb91c59d-6596-4fb1-b385-92c8da631211%2F8982e46d-8f29-44ec-83c9-d7ec5e4d2b0e%2Fyyc5uk_processed.jpeg&w=3840&q=75)
Transcribed Image Text:A power plant delivering 900 MWe has an efficiency of 30% with 15 percent of the waste heat being released to the atmosphere as stack heat and the other 85 percent taken away in the cooling water. This plant
uses an evaporating cooling tower wherein heat is released to the atmosphere as cooling water is vaporized.
Evaporative
cooling
Stack heat
River
Makeup water
a. What is the total amount of heat supplied to the power plant (in MW)? Round off your answer to the nearest whole number.
b. If the temperature of the makeup water from the river is 15 C, at what rate (in m3/s) should water be withdrawn to offset the water lost in the cooling tower? Heat of vaporization of water at 15 C is 2,465
kJ/kg. Round off your answer to two (2) decimal places
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