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The document is an individual assignment for a thermodynamics course, focusing on various Rankine cycle configurations and calculations. It includes problems related to steam power plants, thermal efficiency, mass flow rates, and heat transfer in different cycle setups. The assignment is submitted by Biniyam Moges and is due on November 28, 2024.

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Assignment 5b Solution

The document is an individual assignment for a thermodynamics course, focusing on various Rankine cycle configurations and calculations. It includes problems related to steam power plants, thermal efficiency, mass flow rates, and heat transfer in different cycle setups. The assignment is submitted by Biniyam Moges and is due on November 28, 2024.

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Thermodynamics II Individual Assignment 5b

Section – 2

Name: Biniyam Moges


ID.No: UGR/1414/15

Submitted to Mr. Natnael Bekele


Due date for Nov 28, 2024
Questions:
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. An ideal reheat Rankine cycle with water as the working fluid operates the boiler at 15,000

kPa, the reheater at 2000 kPa, and the condenser at 100 kPa. The temperature is 450°C

at the entrance of the high-pressure and low-pressure turbines. The mass flow rate

through the cycle is 1.74 kg/s. Determine the power used by pumps, the power produced
by the cycle, the rate of heat transfer in the reheater, and the thermal efficiency of this

system.

Answer:
9. Consider a steam power plant that operates on the ideal regenerative Rankine cycle with

a closed feedwater heater as shown in the figure. The plant maintains the turbine inlet at

3000 kPa and 350°C and operates the condenser at 20 kPa. Steam is extracted at 1000

kPa to serve the closed feedwater heater, which discharges into the condenser after being
throttled to condenser pressure. Calculate the work produced by the turbine, the work

consumed by the pump, and the heat supply in the boiler for this cycle per unit of boiler

flow rate.

Answer:

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