Reheat in Rankine Cycle

The Reheat Process

a. To reduce the moisture content at the turbine output
b. The network output is obtained when the pressure at which the steam is
being reheated
Assume that,
c. All the components in the cycle operate at steady state.
d. Kinetic and potential energy changes are negligible
From the T-s diagram,
- Steam is expanded isentropically to an intermediate pressure in a high-
pressure turbine (1)
- Then, sent back to the boiler to be reheated at constant pressure to the inlet
temperature of the high-pressure turbine
- the steam is sent to a low-pressure turbine and expands to the condenser
pressure (2)
- Total heat input and total heat output :-
qin = qprimary + qreheat = (h3 - h2) + (h5 - h4)
wtotal, out = qturb, I + qturb, II = (h3 - h4) + (h5 - h6)