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Consider a steam power plant that operates on a reheat Rankine cycle and has a net power output of 80 MW. Steam enters the high-pressure turbine at 10 MPa and 500°C and the low-pressure turbine at 1 MPa and 500°C. Steam leaves the condenser as a saturated liquid at a pressure of 10 kPa. The isentropic efficiency of the turbine is 78 percent and that of the pump is 95 percent.
a.)Determine the quality (or temperature, if superheated) of the steam at the turbine exit. Use steam tables. The temperature of the steam at the turbine exit is?
b.)Determine the thermal efficiency of the cycle. Use steam tables.The thermal efficiency of the cycle is ?