UNIVERSIDAD DEL ATLÁNTICO

APPLIED THERMODYNAMICS VACATIONS COURSE

HOMEWORK OF ENERGY-ENTROPY-EXERGY BALANCES
PROBE YOUR KNOWLEDGE PART II

A cogeneration power cycle (figure 1) uses a steam to expand it into

a turbine from 3 MPa and 500 °C to 10 kPa (7). The turbine has an
adiabatic efficiency of 0.80 and produces a power of 40 MW. A vapor
is extracted from the turbine at 500 kPa to be fed a mixing chamber
that losses heat to a rate of 3200 kJ/min. Condensed water from pump
I is at 300 kPa and the water exits from the chamber mixing as a
saturated liquid also at 300 kPa The second-law efficiency of both
pumps are 0.75. Cooling water is available at 10 °C to be employed in
the condenser and the final temperature of the it to be at 35 °C. The
boiler operates at constant pressure and its heat is supplied by the
combustion of a natural gas with molar composition as following: 90
% methane, 7.3 % carbon monoxide, 1.6 % nitrogen and 1.1 % of
hydrogen sulfide, the fuel and air (25 % in excess) enter through
stream 11 and complete combustion products out by line 12. Determine:

1. Mass flow entering to mixing chamber (6) and condenser (7).

2. The mass flow of natural gas required (11).
3. The reversible work produced in the turbine.
4. The destroyed exergy and the generated entropy for all units
except the boiler.

Figure 1. A cogeneration power cycle.