HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT 2
1. The gas-turbine portion of a combined gas–steam power plant has
a pressure ratio of 16. Air enters the com pressor at 300 K at a rate of
14 kg/s and is heated to 1500 K in the combustion chamber. The
combustion gases leaving the gas turbine are used to heat the steam
to 400°C at 10 MPa in a heat exchanger. The combustion gases leave
the heat exchanger at 420 K. The steam leaving the turbine is
condensed at 15 kPa. Assuming all the compression and expansion
processes to be isentropic and constant specific heats at room
temperature, determine;
(a) the mass flow rate of the steam
(b) the net power output
(c) the thermal efficiency of the combined cycle
2. A steam power plant operates on an ideal reheat regenerative
Rankine cycle with one reheater and two feed water heaters, one open
and one closed. Steam enters the high-pressure turbine at 15 MPa and
600°C and the low pressure turbine at 1 MPa and 500°C. The
condenser pressure is 5 kPa. Steam is extracted from the turbine at
0.6 MPa for the closed feedwater heater and at 0.2 MPa for the open
feed water heater. In the closed feedwater heater, the feedwater is
heated to the condensation temperature of the extracted steam. The
extracted steam leaves the closed feedwater heater as a saturated
liquid, which is subsequently throttled to the open feedwater heater.
Show the cycle on a T-s diagram with respect to saturation lines and
determine;
(a) the fraction of steam extracted from the turbine for the open
feedwater heater
(b) the thermal efficiency of the cycle
(c) the net power output for a mass flow rate of 42 kg/s through the
boiler
3. Consider a cogeneration power plant that is modified with reheat
and that produces 3 MW of power and supplies 7 MW of process
heat. Steam enters the high-pressure turbine at 8 MPa and 500°C and
expands to a pressure of 1 MPa. At this pressure, part of the steam is
extracted from the turbine and routed to the process heater, while the
remainder is reheated to 500°C and expanded in the low-pressure
turbine to the condenser pressure of 15 kPa. The condensate from
the condenser is pumped to 1 MPa and is mixed with the extracted
steam, which leaves the process heater as a compressed liquid at
120°C. The mixture is then pumped to the boiler pressure. Assuming
the turbine to be isentropic, show the cycle on a T-s diagram with
respect to saturation lines, and disregarding pump work, determine;
(a) the rate of heat input in the boiler
(b) the fraction of steam extracted for process heating.
