Rosales, Rey Jr. R.

BSME 4-1 Problem Set #4

Unit #4 – Heat Balance Problem 6. The conversion of older power plant

Set into combined cycle unit is called
A. Rehabilitation
Section I – Terminologies (20 pts). B. Rejuvenation
Direction: C. Repowering
D. Converted status
1. The thermodynamic cycle used in a
7. An engineer want to increase the
thermal power plant is:
temperature in the boiler but he want
A. Ericson
that the pressure should remain the
B. Brayton
same. What shall he do?
C. Carnot
A. Superheat
D. Rankine
B. Desuperheat
2. Rankine cycle efficiency for fixed
C. Saturate
steam temperature of any volume up
D. Subcool
to critical temperature will be
8. Which group contains processes that
maximum for steam pressure of:
are always part of any physically
A. Critical pressure
realizable vapor power cycle?
B. 200 kg/cm2
A. Isentropic compression and
C. 100 kg/cm2
isentropic expansion
D. 203.5 kg/cm2
B. Isentropic compression
3. On which does the working pressure
C. Adiabatic heat addition and
of a boiler does not depend?
adiabatic heat extraction
A. Tensile strength of shell
D. Isobaric vaporization and
B. Thickness of shell
isobaric condensation
C. Factor of safety
9. When the boiler pressure increases or
D. Type of fuel being fired
when the exhaust pressure decreases,
4. A simultaneous generation of
the amount of moisture:
electricity and steam, or heat, in a
A. Increases
single power plant.
B. Decreases
A. Gas turbine plant
C. Constant
B. Cogeneration
D. Zero
C. Waste heat recovery
10. When the number of reheat stages in
D. Steam turbine-gas turbine plant
a reheat cycle is increased, the
5. Consider a simple Rankine cycle fixed
average temperature:
boiler and condenser pressures. If the
A. Increases
cycle is modified with reheating,
B. Decreases
A. The pump work input will
C. Constant
decrease
D. zero
B. The turbine output work will
decrease
C. The moisture content at turbine
exit will decrease
D. The amount of heat rejected
will decrease
Section II – Problem Solving (80 pts). two feedwater heaters. Determine the
thermal efficiency and the net work
Direction: obtained per kg steam.
1. A simple rankine cycle operates 5. A reheat cycle with two stages of
between superheated steam at 6 MPa, reheating is executed, with steam
600°C entering the turbine, and 10 expanding initially from 10 MPa and
kPa entering the pump. Determine the 540°C. The two reheating pressures
maximum possible cycle thermal are 4 MPa and 1 MPa, and the steam
efficiency. Draw the schematic and Ts leaves each reheater at 540°C.
diagram. Condensation occurs at 60°C where hf
2. Steam at 100 bar, 600°C is received by = 251 and hB = 268 kJ/kg. Sketch the
a rankine engine and exhausts at 2 T-s diagram. For the ideal cycle, and 1
bar, ΔPE and ΔKE are negligible kg/s of steam, find
a. For the ideal engine, find W, w, a. QA
e, and pm b. eth
b. For the actual engine, Mb =
84%, egen = 93%, and the driven
generator produces 30 MW.
Find Wk, ek, total throttle flow,
and estimate the exhaust
enthalpy h2’.
3. Draw a flow diagram of a Rankine
vapor cycle steam power plant. Steam
engine drives 150-kW generator of
90% electrical efficiency; steam rate.
6.7 kg/bhp-hr; steam pressure, 1
034.6 kPag; 55.6°SH; exhaust to
condenser at 15.2 cmHg abs; no
feedwater heating. Motor driven
boiler feed pump. Find
a. eR
b. etb
c. ec
4. Consider the ideal regenerative cycle.
Steam enters the turbine at 275
N/cm2, 320°C. Condenser pressure is
137 N/cm2. Steam is exhausted at 64
N/cm2 and 9.8 N/cm2 for purposes of
heating the feedwater. The feedwater
heaters are open heaters, and the
feedwater leaves at the temperature
of the condensing steam. The
appropriate pumps are used for the
water leaving the condenser and the