In: Mechanical Engineering
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 80 percent, and that of the pump is 95
percent. Show the cycle on a T-s diagram with respect to saturation
lines, and determine (a) the quality (or temperature, if
superheated) of the steam at
the turbine exit, (b) the thermal efficiency of the cycle, and (c)
the mass flow rate of the steam.k