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A Simple Rankine Cycle Uses Water As The Working Fluid. The Boiler Operates at 6000 Kpa

This document contains 5 paragraphs describing simple Rankine cycle problems involving calculation of cycle parameters like work, heat input, efficiency, mass flow rates, temperatures and pressures at different states. The cycles use working fluids like water, steam, isobutane and refrigerant-134a. The questions involve determining cycle parameters like thermal efficiency, turbine exit quality, net power output, heat input and isentropic efficiencies.

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A Simple Rankine Cycle Uses Water As The Working Fluid. The Boiler Operates at 6000 Kpa

This document contains 5 paragraphs describing simple Rankine cycle problems involving calculation of cycle parameters like work, heat input, efficiency, mass flow rates, temperatures and pressures at different states. The cycles use working fluids like water, steam, isobutane and refrigerant-134a. The questions involve determining cycle parameters like thermal efficiency, turbine exit quality, net power output, heat input and isentropic efficiencies.

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1.

A simple ideal Rankine cycle which uses water as the working fluid operates its condenser
at 40 °C and its boiler at 300 °C. Calculate the work produced by the turbine, the heat
supplied in the boiler, and the thermal efficiency of this cycle when the steam enters the
turbine without any superheating.

2. Consider a 210-MW steam power plant that operates on a simple ideal Rankine cycle.
Steam enters the turbine at 10 MPa and 500 °C and is cooled in the condenser at a
pressure of 10 kPa. Show the cycle on a T-s diagram with respect to saturation lines, and
determine (a) the quality of the steam at the turbine exit, (b) the thermal efficiency of the
cycle, and (c) the mass flow rate of the steam. Answers: (a) 0.793, (b) 40.2 percent, (c)
165 kg/s
3. A simple Rankine cycle uses water as the working fluid. The boiler operates at 6000 kPa
and the condenser at 50 kPa. At the entrance to the turbine, the temperature is 450 °C.
The isentropic efficiency of the turbine is 94 percent, pressure and pump losses are
negligible, and the water leaving the condenser is subcooled by 6.3 °C. The boiler is sized
for a mass flow rate of 20 kg/s. Determine the rate at which heat is added in the boiler,
the power required to operate the pumps, the net power produced by the cycle, and the
thermal efficiency. Answers: 59,660 kW, 122 kW, 18,050 kW, 30.3 percent.
4. A binary geothermal power plant uses geothermal water at 160 °C as the heat source. The
cycle operates on the simple Rankine cycle with isobutane as the working fluid. Heat is
transferred to the cycle by a heat exchanger in which geothermal liquid water enters at
160 °C at a rate of 555.9 kg/s and leaves at 90 °C. Isobutane enters the turbine at 3.25
MPa and 147 °C at a rate of 305.6 kg/s, and leaves at 79.5 °C and 410 kPa. Isobutane is
condensed in an air-cooled condenser and pumped to the heat exchanger pressure.
Assuming the pump to have an isentropic efficiency of 90 percent, determine (a) the
isentropic efficiency of the turbine, (b) the net power output of the plant, and (c) the
thermal efficiency of the cycle. The properties of isobutane may be obtained from CHERIC.
5. Refrigerant-134a is used as the working fluid in a simple ideal Rankine cycle which
operates the boiler at 2000 kPa and the condenser at 24 °C. The mixture at the exit of the
turbine has a quality of 93 percent. Determine the turbine inlet temperature, the cycle
thermal efficiency, and the back-work ratio of this cycle.

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