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A steam powerplant operating on an ideal Rankine Cycle is operating at a boiler pressure of...

A steam powerplant operating on an ideal Rankine Cycle is operating at a boiler pressure of 5.75MPa, steam enters the turbine at 500°C and expands to 147kPa. If the powerplant is producing 5MW of energy find the following:

  1. Enthalpies at each point of the cycle 1,2,3,B (hint: you will have to interpolate horizontally for point 1 and interpolate for the f,g,fg values for point 2)
  2. Net work in kj/kg
  3. Mass flow rate of throttle steam used by the powerplant
  4. Heat added in the boiler
  5. Heat rejected in the condenser
  6. Cycle Thermal efficiency

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Expert Solution

The ideal Rankyne cycle refers to issentropic expansion in turbine and issentropic pump work.

using steam table ,we can calculate enthapy and entropy at each point.

hence we can find all asked values at specified points.

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