Question

A power plant operates on a regenerative vapor power cycle with one open feedwater heater. Steam enters the first turbine stage at 12 MPa, 5608C and expands to 1 MPa, where some of the steam is extracted and diverted to the open feedwater heater operating at 1 MPa. The remaining steam expands through the second turbine stage to the condenser pressure of 6 kPa. Saturated liquid exits the open feedwater heater at 1 MPa. The net power output for the cycle is 330 MW. For isentropic processes in the turbines and pumps.

Determine:
a. the cycle thermal efficiency.
b. the mass flow rate into the first turbine stage, in kg/s.
c. the rate of entropy production in the open feedwater heater, in kW/K.

Answer 1

a) 0.489

b) 54.42 kg/s

c) 247.36 kW/s

Step-by-step explanation:

Note that all the initial enthalpy and entropy values were gotten from the tables.

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