Engr. Rugi Vicente C. Rubi, Phdche: Chemical Engineering Department
1. The document provides a 10 question multiple choice exam on the Rankine cycle. Questions cover topics like typical efficiency ranges for steam power plants, factors that affect efficiency, the components and processes that make up the Rankine cycle, and regenerative heating.
2. It also includes 3 word problems to solve. The first asks the student to calculate efficiency, work output, and solar collector area needed for a simple Rankine cycle. The second asks for efficiency and work ratio of a cycle between 30 and 0.04 bar. The third asks for reheat pressure and efficiency of a reheat cycle operating between 150 and 0.1 bar.
3. The document is a test from a chemical engineering course assessing understanding of
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Engr. Rugi Vicente C. Rubi, Phdche: Chemical Engineering Department
1. The document provides a 10 question multiple choice exam on the Rankine cycle. Questions cover topics like typical efficiency ranges for steam power plants, factors that affect efficiency, the components and processes that make up the Rankine cycle, and regenerative heating.
2. It also includes 3 word problems to solve. The first asks the student to calculate efficiency, work output, and solar collector area needed for a simple Rankine cycle. The second asks for efficiency and work ratio of a cycle between 30 and 0.04 bar. The third asks for reheat pressure and efficiency of a reheat cycle operating between 150 and 0.1 bar.
3. The document is a test from a chemical engineering course assessing understanding of
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Long Exam Rankine Cycle
Instruction: Solve the following problems correctly. Be able to show your step by step solutions.
Engr. Rugi Vicente C. Rubi, PhDChE
1. In a power plant where is an analogy of Rankine cycle, the efficiency of a good steam power plant may be in the range of Chemical Engineering Department a. 15 to 20% b. 35 to 45% c. 70 to 80% d. 90 to 95% . 2. Rankine efficiency of a steam power plant a. improves in b. improves in c. is unaffected by d. none of the summer as winter as compared climatic conditions above compared to that in to that in summer winter 3. Rankine cycle operating on low pressure limit of p1 and high pressure limit of p2 a. has higher b. has lower c. has same d. may be more or thermal efficiency thermal efficiency thermal efficiency less depending than the Carnot than Carnot cycle as Carnot cycle upon the cycle operating operating between operating between magnitudes of p1 between same same pressure same pressure and p2 pressure limits limits limits 4. Rankine cycle comprises of a. two isentropic b. two isentropic c. two isothermal d. none of the processes and two processes and two processes and two above. constant volume constant pressure constant pressure processes processes processes 5. In Rankine cycle the work output from the turbine is given by a. change of b. change of c. change of d. change of internal energy enthalpy between entropy between temperature between inlet and inlet and outlet inlet and outlet between inlet and outlet outlet 6. Regenerative heating i.e., bleeding steam to reheat feed water to boiler a. decreases b. increases c. does not affect d. may increase or thermal efficiency thermal efficiency thermal efficiency decrease thermal of the cycle of the cycle of the cycle efficiency of the cycle depending
Engr. Rugi Vicente C. Rubi, PhDChE
Chemical Engineering Department upon the point of extraction of steam 7. Regenerative cycle thermal efficiency a. is always greater b. is greater than c. is same as d. is always less than simple simple Rankine simple Rankine than simple Rankine thermal cycle thermal cycle thermal Rankine cycle efficiency efficiency only efficiency thermal efficiency. when steam is bled at particular pressure 8. In a regenerative feed heating cycle, the optimum value of the fraction of steam extracted for feed heating a. decreases with b. increases with c. is unaffected by d. none of the increase in Rankine increase in Rankine increase in Rankine above cycle efficiency cycle efficiency cycle efficiency 9. In a regenerative feed heating cycle, the greatest economy is affected a. when steam is b. when steam is c. when steam is d. when steam is extracted from onlyextracted from extracted only from extracted only from one suitable point several places in the last stage of the first stage of of steam turbine different stages of steam turbine steam turbine steam turbine 10. The maximum percentage gain in Regenerative feed heating cycle thermal efficiency a. increases with b. decreases with c. remains same d. none of the number of feed number of feed unaffected by above heaters increasing heaters increasing number of feed heaters Problem: 1. A simple steam power cycle uses solar energy for the heat input. Water in the cycle enters the pump as a saturated liquid at 40°C, and is pumped to 2 bar. It then evaporates in the boiler at this pressure, and enters the turbine as saturated vapour. At the turbine exhaust the conditions are 40°C and 10% moisture. The flow rate is 150 kg/h. Determine (a) the turbine isentropic efficiency, (b) the net work output (c) the cycle efficiency d) the area of solar collector needed if the collectors pick up 0.58 kW/ m 2 . 2. A simple Rankine cycle works between pressure of 30 bar and 0.04 bar, the initial condition of steam being dry saturated,
Engr. Rugi Vicente C. Rubi, PhDChE
Chemical Engineering Department a. Calculate the cycle efficiency b. Calculate the work ratio . 3. In a reheat cycle, the initial steam pressure and the maximum temperature are 150 bar and 550°C respectively. If the condenser pressure is 0.1 bar and the moisture at the condenser inlet is 5%, and assuming ideal processes, a. Determine the reheat pressure b. Determine the cycle efficiency