In: Mechanical Engineering
QUESTION 3
a) A steam power plant operates on an ideal reheat-regenerative Rankine cycle. Steam
enters the high-pressure turbine (HPT) at a pressure of 10 MPa and temperature of
550oC. The steam expands through the HPT stage to a pressure of 0.6 MPa. Some of
the steam at the end of the expansion process in HPT is extracted for a regeneration
process in a closed-type feedwater heater. The steam leaves the heater as a saturated
liquid and then is throttled to the condenser pressure of 10 kPa. The remaining steam at
the end of HPT is reheated at constant pressure of 0.6 MPa to a temperature of 500oC
before entering the low-pressure turbine (LPT). The steam finally expands through the
LPT to the condenser pressure of 10 kPa. The water leaves the condenser as a saturated
liquid. The feedwater in the heater is preheated to saturation temperature of the reheat
pressure. The plant produces a net power output of 115 MW.
i. Show the cycle on a temperature-entropy (T-s) diagram.
ii. Determine the mass fraction of the extracted steam.
iii. Calculate the mass flow rate of the steam, kg/s.
iv. Compute the thermal efficiency, %.