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Is a steam power plant a heat engine?

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Yes

Step-by-step explanation:

Yes steam power plant is heat engine.

As we know that a heat engine takes from source heat and produce some amount of work and reject the heat to the sink.

So the steam power plant fulfill the all requirement like it take heat from boiler and produce some amount work and then reject the heat by using condenser.So we can say that steam power plant is an example of heat engine.

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