ME2041 - Thermodynamics

Assignment
Final Deadline:
Week 11; Sunday, November 26, 2023 at 11.59 pm.

Guidelines for Assignment

• This assignment weighs 5% of the total marks.
• The deadline for the assignment submission: Week 11; Sunday, November 26, 2023
at 11.59 pm. ( Three weeks for the submission)
• You have to prepare an answerscript to the provided question on the next page.
• Marking scheme [100 Marks]

– Problem statement. (How you understood the question) [05 Mark]

– Schematic. (The given images can be used) [00 Marks]
– Assumptions [10 Marks]
– Physical laws [15 Marks]
– Properties [15 Marks]
– Calculations [50 Marks]
– Reasoning. (Final answers) [05 Marks]

• You may submit a Word or PDF document with all the steps to the link provided in the
CourseWeb. Scanned copies of handwritten documents are not accepted.
• Plagiarized documents can achieve 0 marks.
• Assignment document: Answer script may consist of a maximum of 3 pages. (4 pages
if you truly need space).

1
 Question
Consider a combined gas–steam power cycle. The topping cycle is a simple Brayton cycle that
has a pressure ratio of 7. Air enters the compressor at 15◦ C at a rate of 10.AB kg/s and the gas
turbine at 950◦ C.

The bottoming cycle is a reheat Rankine cycle between the pressure limits of 6 MPa and 10
kPa. Steam is heated in a heat exchanger at a rate of 1.CD kg/s by the exhaust gases leaving
the gas turbine and the exhaust gases leave the heat exchanger at 200°C. Steam leaves the high-
pressure turbine at 1.0 MPa and is reheated to 400°C in the heat exchanger before it expands in
the low-pressure turbine. Assuming 80 percent isentropic efficiency for all pumps and turbines.

Determine,

1. the moisture content at the exit of the low-pressure turbine.

2. the steam temperature at the inlet of the high-pressure turbine.
3. the net power output and the thermal efficiency of the combined plant.

ABCD is the last four digits of your student number.

Figure 1: Combined cycles for power generation