VAPOR CYCLE

1. Sadi Carnot developed the Carnot Cycle

2. Sadi Carnot is often described as the “father of thermodynamics”
3. The Mollier Diagram is an enthalpy vs entropy chart
4. A Boiler is a closed vessel in which a fluid is heated
5. A Heat Balance is an accounting of all energy units.
6. The most-used principle in heat balancing is the First Law of Thermodynamics
7. liquid in the boiler
8. Heaters are located near the turbine to have little pressure drop to the heater
9. The prime mover of the regenerative cycle plant is a Steam Turbine
10. Surge Tank absorbs the irregularities of cycle flow
11. Regenerative Heater resembles a small surface condenser
12. Pressure Loss is due to pipe friction and throttling at the extraction nozzle
13. Distilled Water is used for feed water make-up
14. Mercury as a vapor cycle has low specific enthalpy
15. Evaporators use extracted steam for vaporizing raw water
16. A closed cycle plant ordinarily contains auxiliary equipment added for economic reasons
17. A balanced heat and power supply are generally economical
18. A vapor cycle involves, in addition, all changes in the vapor state
19. Cogeneration is the production of more than one useful form of energy from the same
energy source.
20. In a turbine, moisture in expanding steam is undesirable
21. It is assumed that reheating begins at the saturation line.
22. Live steam reheater was once used in earlier reheat cycles
23. Mercury as a vapor cycle has moderate vapor pressure at higher temperature
24. Modernizing existing equipment increases capacity of an existing plant
25. Mercury can seep through joints or cracks that would be impervious to water of steam
26. In a closed rankine vapor cycle, the condenser reduce the exhaust steam to liquid
27. Enthalpy is the sum of internal energy and flow work
28. Economizer is using the extracted steam to preheat the feed water
29. Feed Water Heater designed to preheat boiler feed water of condensing steam extracted
from steam turbine
30. Isobaric Process is a process in which the pressure stays constant
31. Entropy is a measure of molecular disorder or molecular randomness