Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach
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ISBN: 9781259822674
Author: Yunus A. Cengel Dr., Michael A. Boles
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 8.8, Problem 15P
One method of meeting the extra electric power demand at peak periods is to pump some water from a large body of water (such as a lake) to a reservoir at a higher elevation at times of low demand and to generate electricity at times of high demand by letting this water run down and rotate a turbine (i.e., convert the electric energy to potential energy and then back to electric energy). For an energy storage capacity of 5 × 106 kWh, determine the minimum amount of water that needs to be stored at an average elevation (relative to the ground level) of 75 m.
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