Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach
8th Edition
ISBN: 9780073398174
Author: Yunus A. Cengel Dr., Michael A. Boles
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 9.12, Problem 197FEP
An ideal gas turbine cycle with many stages of compression and expansion and a regenerator of 100 percent effectiveness has an overall pressure ratio of 10. Air enters every stage of the compressor at 290 K and every stage of the turbine at 1200 K. The thermal efficiency of this gas-turbine cycle is
- (a) 36 percent
- (b) 40 percent
- (c) 52 percent
- (d) 64 percent
- (e) 76 percent
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