Borgnakke and Sonntag

11.36
Consider an ideal steam reheat cycle where steam enters the high-pressure turbine
at 3.0 MPa, 400°C, and then expands to 0.8 MPa. It is then reheated to 400°C and
expands to 10 kPa in the low-pressure turbine. Calculate the cycle thermal
efficiency and the moisture content of the steam leaving the low-pressure turbine.

Solution:
C.V. Pump reversible, adiabatic and assume incompressible flow
wP = v1(P2 - P1) = 0.00101(3000 - 10) = 3.02 kJ/kg,
h2 = h1 + wP = 191.81 + 3.02 = 194.83 kJ/kg

Boiler Turbine
cb
3
T 3 MPa
3
5
QH 4 4
WT 10 kPa
2
5 6 1
2 WP 6
Condenser
1 QL
s
C.V. HP Turbine section
P3 = 3 MPa, T3 = 400oC => h3 = 3230.82 kJ/kg, s3 = 6.9211 kJ/kg K
s4 = s3 => h4 = 2891.6 kJ/kg;
C.V. LP Turbine section
State 5: 400oC, 0.8 MPa => h5 = 3267.1 kJ/kg, s5 = 7.5715 kJ/kg K
Entropy Eq.: s6 = s5 = 7.5715 kJ/kg K => two-phase state
s6 - sf 7.5715 - 0.6492
x6 = s = 7.501 = 0.92285 = 0.923
fg

h6 = 191.81 + 0.92285 × 2392.82 = 2400 kJ/kg

wT,tot = h3 - h4 + h5 - h6 = 3230.82 - 2891.6+3267.1 - 2400 = 1237.8 kJ/kg
qH1 = h3 - h2 = 3230.82 - 194.83 = 3036 kJ/kg
qH = qH1 + h5 - h4 = 3036 + 3267.1 - 2891.6 = 3411.5 kJ/kg
ηCYCLE = (wT,tot - wP)/qH = (1237.8 - 3.02)/3411.5 = 0.362

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