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Steam enters the

e first turbine stage
e of a vappor powerr cycle witth reheat and
regenerration at 32
3 MPa, 60
00C, and expands tto 8 MPa. A portion of the flo
ow is
diverted
dtoaclose
edfeedwaaterheaterrat8MPa,andtherremainderisreheateedto
560C before
b
enttering the second tu
urbine stagge. Expanssion througgh the seccond
turbine stageoccursto1M
MPa,where
eanotherpportionof theflowisdiverted toa
second closed fee
edwater heater
h
at 1
1 MPa. Thhe remaind
der of the flow expaands
through
h the third
d turbine stage to 0.15 MPa, where aa portion of the flo
ow is
diverted
d to an open
o
feedwater heaater operaating at 00.15 MPa, and the rest
expandsthrough thefourth
hturbineturbinestagetothe condenserrpressure of6
kPa. Co
ondensate leaves eacch closed feedwaterr heater ass saturated
d liquid att the
respective extracction presssure. The feedwaater streams leave each clo
osed
feedwater heaterr at a temperature equal
e
to tthe saturattion temperature att the
respectiveextracttionpressu
ure.Thecondensateestreams fromthecclosedheaaters
eachpaassthrough
htrapsinto
othenextlowerpreessurefeed
dwaterheaater.Saturated
liquidexitingtheopenheatterispump
pedtothesteamgen
neratorprressure.Ifeeach
turbine stage haas an isen
ntropic effficiency o
of 85% an
nd the pu
umps opeerate
isentrop
pically
(a) Sketchthelayoutoftthecycleandnumbe rtheprinccipalstatepoints.
(b) Determine
D
thethermalefficienccyofthecyycle.
(c) Calculateth
C
hemassflowratein
ntothefirsstturbine stage,inkkg/h,foraanet
poweroutp
p
putof500MW.
the exerggy destructtion and eexergetic eefficiency o
(d) Determine
D
of each off the
componenttsofthecyycle,excep
ptthesteam
mgenerator.
(e) Propose
P
a modification to the operatingg condition
ns of the p
power cycle in
ordertoinc
o
creasethethermale
efficiencyo
ofthecycleandredu
ucetheexxergy
destruction
n. Evaluate
e the performancee of the power cyycle with the
proposedm
p
modificatio
on.