Chapter 9, Problem 9.101P

Through a combustion of a fossil fuel at 35000C, an engine receives energy at a rate of 3000Btu/s to heat a steam to 15000C. There is no energy loss during the combustion process, the steam in turn produces 1000Btu/s of work and rejects the remaining energy to the surrounding at 3000C, What is the thermal efficiency of the plant? What is the reversible work and Carnot efficiency? What is irreversibility?

A Steam power plant uses a Rankine cycle to produce electrical power. The boiler pressure is 2 MPa and the temperature at the turbine inlet is 300C. The pump inlet pressure is 0.025 MPa and the entropy is 0.8931 kJ/kg-k. The turbine gives 1MW of work to the generator. Find the dryness of the steam at turbine exit, Wp, Qa, Qr, Wt, Wnet, efficiency, SR, and mass flow rate of steam. (84.65%, 2.0143 kJ/kg, 2749.56 kJ/kg, 1986.15 kJ/kg, 765.42 kJ/kg, 763.41 kJ/kg, 27.76%, 4.7157 kg/kWh, 1.3064 kg/s) -Draw the T-S diagram with properly labelled points and solve the problems. Show your COMPLETE solution - Use the Steam Table provided if necessary.

2.A steam throttling valve with inlet conditions of 2MPA and 400C is connected to the inlet of the turbine. The turbine has 200kW power output and heat abstracted of 100kW. If the mass flow rate is 1kg/s and the exit temperature of steam is 300C, find the exit turbine pressure.