Jishnu Bhattacharya

1st Semester - 2016-17

Lecture -17
Real Regeneration
How to find the amount of regenerative
mass flows (m1, m2 etc)?
From energy balance for heater 1:

=>

Similarly for energy balance of heater 2:

Re arranging, we get
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 Real Regeneration

Finding out the 2, 3 etc: Heat released by steam condensing from 2 to 2 is utilized
in heating up water from 8 to 9. So,

Similarly,
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Therefore,
Real Regeneration

Ideal regeneration Real regeneration

With increased number of regenerative steps, the real regeneration approaches

the ideal regeneration in the limit of infinite steps
Feedwater heaters

Open Heaters
Feedwater heaters

Closed Heaters
Feedwater heaters
Feedwater heaters
Open Heaters Closed Heaters

Simple and inexpensive Expensive

Complete heat exchange Less heat exchange

Pump needed at each stage No need for pump at each

stage even if pump is used ,

much less powerful pump can

be used.
Example reheat & regeneration