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Assignment I (Analysis of Steam Cycle)

This document contains 5 questions regarding steam cycles, thermodynamic processes, and energy analysis. The questions involve calculating efficiencies, mass flow rates, reheat pressures, and more for various steam cycles including regenerative-reheat cycles, Rankine cycles, and cycles with feedwater heating. Diagrams are also requested to illustrate some of the cycles and processes.

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Assignment I (Analysis of Steam Cycle)

This document contains 5 questions regarding steam cycles, thermodynamic processes, and energy analysis. The questions involve calculating efficiencies, mass flow rates, reheat pressures, and more for various steam cycles including regenerative-reheat cycles, Rankine cycles, and cycles with feedwater heating. Diagrams are also requested to illustrate some of the cycles and processes.

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Assignment I (Analysis of Steam Cycle)

Students are requested to submit their assignment positively on 18/09/2023.

Q.1. A steam plant operates with an initial pressure at 20 bar and temperature 400°C, and
exhausts to a heating system at 2 bar. The condensate from the heating system is returned to
the boiler plant at 65°C, and the heating system utilizes for its intended purpose 90% of the
energy transferred from the steam it receives. The turbine efficiency is 70%. (a) What
fraction of the energy supplied to the steam plant serves a useful purpose? (b) If two separate
steam plants had been set up to produce the same useful energy, one to generate heating
steam at 2 bar, and the other to generate power through a cycle working between 20 bar,
400°C and 0.07 bar, what fraction of the energy supplied would have served a useful
purpose?

Q.2. In a reheat cycle, the initial steam pressure and the maximum temperature are 150 bar
and 550°C respectively. If the condenser pressure is 0.1 bar and the moisture at the condenser
inlet is 5%, and assuming ideal processes, determine (a) the reheat pressure, (b) the cycle
efficiency, and (c) the steam rate. Steam leaves the boiler in a steam turbine plant at 2 MPa,
300°C respectively and is expanded to 3.5 kPa before entering the condenser. Compare the
following two cycles:
(1) A superheated Rankine cycle.
(2) A reheat cycle, with steam reheated to 300°C at a pressure of 0.588 Mpa when it
became saturated vapor.

Q.3. The net power output of a regenerative – reheat cycle power plant is 80mW. Steam
enters the high pressure turbine at 80 bar, 500°C and expands to a pressure P2 and emerges as
dry vapour. Some of the steam goes to an open feed water heater and the balance is reheated
at 400°C at constant pressure P2 and then expanded in the low pressure turbine to 0.05 bar.
Determine (i) the reheat pressure P2, (ii) the mass of bled steam per kg boiler steam, (iii) the
steam flow rate in HP turbine, (iv) Cycle η. Neglect pump work. Sketch the relevant lines on
h-s diagram. Assume expansion in the turbines as isentropic.

Q.4. A pass out two stage turbine receives steam at 50 bar, 350°C. At 1.5 bar, the high
pressure steam exhaust and 12000 kg of steam per hour are taken at this stage for process
purposes. The remainder is reheated at 1.5 bar to 250 DC and the expanded through the low
pressure turbine to a condenser pressure of 0.05 bar. The power output from the turbine unit
is 3750kW. Take the isentropic efficiency for the high pressure and low pressure stages a
0.84 and 0.81 respectively a) form TS diagram b) calculate boiler capacity in t/h required

Q.5. A 850 MW steam power plant operates with turbine inlet at 100 bar, 550 DC and
condenser pressure at 0.05 bar. There are three feed water heaters placed optimally as
follows: (i) the h. p. heater is of the closed type with drains cascaded backward, (ii) the l. p
heater is of the open type, and (iii) the l. p. heater is of the closed type with drains pumped
forward. Each of the turbine sections has the same isentropic efficiency of 90%. The pumps
have isentropic efficiencies of 80%. Calculate (a) the mass flow rate of steam at turbine inlet,
(b) the mass flow rate of cooling water in the condenser, if it undergoes a 10 °C temperature
rise, (c) the cycle efficiency, and (e) the cycle heat rate.

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