Universidad de Pamplona

Facultad de Ingeniería y Arquitectura

Programa Ingeniería Mecánica
Termofluidos III
Taller Ciclos de Potencia de vapor. 3 INTEGRANTES
Entrega: 25 de noviembre de 2019
Profesor: Juan Carlos Serrano Rico

1. Steam enters the first turbine stage of a vapor power cycle with reheat and regeneration at 32
MPa, 600C, and expands to 8 MPa. A portion of the flow is diverted to a closed feedwater heater at 8
MPa, and the remainder is reheated to 560C before entering the second turbine stage. Expansion through
the second turbine stage occurs to 1 MPa, where another portion of the flow is diverted to a second closed
feedwater heater at 1 MPa. The remainder of the flow expands through the third turbine stage to 0.15
MPa, where a portion of the flow is diverted to an open feedwater heater operating at 0.15 MPa, and the
rest expands through the fourth turbine stage to the condenser pressure of 6 kPa. Condensate leaves each
closed feedwater heater as saturated liquid at the respective extraction pressure. The feedwater streams
leave each closed feedwater heater at a temperature equal to the saturation temperature at the respective
extraction pressure. The condensate streams from the closed heaters each pass through traps into the next
lower-pressure feedwater heater. Saturated liquid exiting the open heater is pumped to the steam
generator pressure. If each turbine stage has an isentropic efficiency of 85% and the pumps operate
isentropically.
a. Sketch the layout of the cycle and number the principal state points.
b. Determine the thermal efficiency of the cycle.
c. Calculate the mass flow rate into the first turbine stage, in kg/h, for a net power output of 500 MW.

2. Figure P2 shows the schematic diagram of a

cogeneration cycle. In the steam cycle, superheated
vapor enters the turbine with a mass flow rate of 5 kg/s
at 40 bar, 440C and expands isentropically to 1.5 bar.
Half of the flow is extracted at 1.5 bar and used for
industrial process heating. The rest of the steam passes
through a heat exchanger, which serves as the boiler of
the Refrigerant 134a cycle and the condenser of the
steam cycle. The condensate leaves the heat
exchanger as saturated liquid at 1 bar, where it is
combined with the return flow from the process, at 60C
and 1 bar, before being pumped isentropically to the
steam generator pressure. The Refrigerant 134a cycle is
an ideal Rankine cycle with refrigerant entering the
turbine at 16 bar, 100C and saturated liquid leaving the
condenser at 9 bar. Determine,
a. The rate of heat transfer to the working fluid
passing through the steam generator of the steam cycle.
b. The net power output of the binary cycle.
c. The rate of heat transfer to the industrial process.
d. For the heat exchanger unit, determine the net
rate at which exergy is carried in by the gas stream,
the net rate at which exergy is carried out by the water Fig. P2
stream, and the rate of exergy destruction.