HW NO.

5: ME133: THERMO 2 - SECTION E01

Quirimit, Eduard Alexander B. DATE:13/JULY/2022 SEAT NUMBER (SN): 30

Note: make sure you fill up the “Summary of Answers” Table below or make a written summary of answers.
Attach your solution to your summary of answers.

REGENERATIVE CYCLE WITH ONE CLOSED HEATER: Fill up the blanks with your answers below.
1. A steam power plant operates on a reheat regenerative Rankine cycle with a closed feedwater heater. Steam enters
the turbine at 8 Mpaa and 500 deg C at a rate of 15 kg/sec and is condensed in the condenser at a pressure of 20 kPaa.
Steam is reheated at 3 MPaa, 500 deg C. Some steam is extracted from the turbine at 1 Mpaa and is completely
condensed in the closed feedwater heater and pumped to 8 Mpaa before it mixes with the feedwater heater at the
same pressure in a mixing chamber. The Terminal Difference for the CFWH, (i.e., the difference between the
temperatures of the fluids leaving the heater) is 5 deg C. Assuming an isentropic efficiency of 88 percent for both the
turbines and the pumps, determine:

SUMMARY OF ANSWERS:

1. Equipment Layout and TS diagram for the (in separate sheet)

cycle
0.1762 kg/kg
2. Ideal extracted steam for feedwater
heating in kg/kg
0.1670 kg/kg
3. Actual extracted steam for feedwater
heating in kg/kg
44758.5 KW
4. Actual energy chargeable (KW)

41.59 %
5. Ideal engine efficiency (%)

16469.17 KW
6. Turbine work, actual (KW)

36.55 %
7. Actual Cycle efficiency using Pump and
Turbine works (%)
8. Brake Work in KW if friction loss at the 15810.40 KW
turbine is 4 % of actual turbine work.

9. The torque measured at the shaft in KN-m 41.94 KN m

if the generator is running at 3600 rpm for a
brake work in item 8.

10. Combined Steam Rate (kg/KW-hr) if 3.45 kg/KW hr

generator efficiency = 95%