AIR UNIVERSITY

Institute of Avionics & Aeronautics

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

THERMODYNAMICS-II (BEME Fall 22-A)

Assignment No 3 (CLO-2, PLO-2)

Problem 1: Consider a reheat–regenerative vapor power cycle with two feedwater heaters,
a closed feedwater heater and an open feedwater heater. Steam enters the first turbine at
8.0 MPa, 480_C and expands to 0.7 MPa. The steam is reheated to 440_C before entering
the second turbine, where it expands to the condenser pressure of 0.008 MPa. Steam is
extracted from the first turbine at 2 MPa and fed to the closed feedwater heater. Feedwater
leaves the closed heater at 205_C and 8.0 MPa, and condensate exits as saturated liquid
at 2 MPa. The condensate is trapped into the open feedwater heater. Steam extracted from
the second turbine at 0.3 MPa is also fed into the open feedwater heater, which operates at
0.3 MPa. The stream exiting the open feedwater heater is saturated liquid at 0.3 MPa. The
net power output of the cycle is 100 MW. There is no stray heat transfer from any
component to its surroundings. If the working fluid experiences no irreversibilities as it
passes through the turbines, pumps, steam generator, reheater, and condenser, determine
(a) the thermal efficiency, (b) the mass flow rate of the steam entering the first turbine, in
kg/h.

Problem 2: A steam power plant operates on an ideal reheat–regenerative Rankine cycle

and has a net power output of 80 MW. Steam enters the high-pressure turbine at 10 MPa
and 550°C and leaves at 0.8 MPa. Some steam is extracted at this pressure to heat the
feedwater in an open feedwater heater. The rest of the steam is reheated to 500°C and is
expanded in the low-pressure turbine to the condenser pressure of 10 kPa. Show the cycle
on a T-s diagram with respect to saturation lines and determine (a) the mass flow rate of
steam through the boiler and (b) the thermal efficiency of the cycle.
 AIR UNIVERSITY

Institute of Avionics & Aeronautics

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Problem 3: A steam turbine is fed with steam having an enthalpy of 3100 kJ/kg. It moves
out of the turbine with an enthalpy of 2100 kJ/kg. Feed heating is done at a pressure of 3.2
bar with steam enthalpy of 2500 kJ/kg. The condensate from a condenser with an enthalpy
of 125 kJ/kg enters the feed heater. The quantity of bled steam is 11200 kg/h. Find the
power developed by the turbine. Assume that the water leaving the feed heater is saturated
liquid at 3.2 bar and the heater is direct mixing type. Neglect pump work.

Problem 4: Consider a cogeneration power plant modified with regeneration. Steam

enters the turbine at 6 MPa and 450°C and expands to a pressure of 0.4 MPa. At this
pressure, 60 percent of the steam is extracted from the turbine, and the remainder
expands to 10 kPa. Part of the extracted steam is used to heat the feedwater in an open
feedwater heater. The rest of the extracted steam is used for process heating and
leaves the process heater as a saturated liquid at 0.4 MPa. It is subsequently mixed
with the feedwater leaving the feedwater heater, and the mixture is pumped to the boiler
pressure.
 AIR UNIVERSITY

Institute of Avionics & Aeronautics

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering