In: Mechanical Engineering
Consider an ideal gas-turbine cycle with two stages of compression and two stages of expansion. The pressure ratio across each stage of the compressor and turbine is 3. The air enters each stage of the compressor at 300 K and each stage of the turbine at 1200 K. Determine the back work ratio and the thermal efficiency of the cycle, assuming (a) the expansion and compression processes to be isentropic and no regenerator is used, (b) the expansion and compression processes to be isentropic and a regenerator with 75 percent effectiveness is used, (c) assuming an efficiency of 84 percent for each compressor stage and an efficiency of 88 percent for each turbine stage and no regenerator is used, and (d) assuming an efficiency of 84 percent for each compressor stage and an efficiency of 88 percent for each turbine stage and a regenerator with 75 percent effectiveness is used. Use enthalpy values from the property tables to solve this problem.