SOFTWAR CODE DEVELOPMENT FOR REHEAT CYCLE

AJAY KARDILE 15BME0503

AKASH SREERAM 15BME0685
AVADHOOT 15BME0713
MANDHATHA 15BME0785
Executive Summary
The Concept
Concept of Rankine cycle
Concept of reheat cycle
Flow chart
Work plan
What We have covered
Concept of Rankine
Concept of reheat
Its use and necessity
Method of solving
Benefits over normal Rankine cycle
Concept of Rankine cycle
Rankine cycle
The process in which turbine, boiler,
condenser and pump work ideally in
a cycle is called a Rankine cycle.
Efficiency of Rankine cycle is the ratio of
work output to the heat supplied to
the cycle.
Effective work output = (work done by
turbine)-(work done by pump)
Concept of Reheat
In order to increase the efficiency of the
Rankine cycle we can either increase the
effective work output or decrease the heat
input.
Reheat concept increases the work output and
also decreases the moisture content which will
not corrode the blades of the turbine.
In order to increase the work output two
turbines are used (high pressure turbine and
low pressure turbine).
Method of solving
To solve various questions regarding reheat cycle any few of theses
parameters should be known to identify the required parameter:
Pressure Temperature Enthalpy Entropy
Dryness fraction
Method of solving under unsaturated conditions

Hsuperheated = Hsaturated + mCp (Temperaturedifference)

Ssuperheated = Ssaturated + mCp ln(t1/t2)

 Method of solving
Input various
parameters at
1,2,3,4,5 and 6

Stem table Finding values of various

values(from parameters under
excel sheet) unsaturated conditions
values using various
Finding
NO the required Checking if all the values are
relations(isentropic,
available to find the isobaric etc.)
efficiency of the cycle
YES

Output(efficiency of the cycle)

Work Plan
Selection simple and user friendly software (Excel,
python etc.)
Developing code
Executing the code without errors
Final output
 Information that is to be provided:
1. Pressure ratio across the compressor
2. Initial pressure P1, temperatureT1.
3. T2 temperature at the exit of compressor.
4. T3, max temperature.
5. Efficiency of turbine, heat exchanger.
Relations between the temperature and pressure at
differnet stages:
1. T3/T4=(P3/P4)^((-1)/)
2. Eficiency of turbine (t)=(T3-T4)/(T3-T4)
3. Efficiency of heat exchanger: (T5-T2)/(T4-T2)
4. Workdone by compressor(Tc):Cp(T2-T1)
5. Turbine Work(Tw): Cp(T3-T4)
6. Heat supplied (Hs):Cp(T3-T5)
7. Total efficieny= (Tw-Cw)/Hs.
 Steps to be followed in solving:
1. Finding the T4 value from the first formula.
2. By using the efficiency of turbine and the T4 value which we found out in previous step T4 can be found out
using the second relation.
3. From the heat exchanger efficiency and T4,T2 we can find out the T5 Temperature before heat exchanging
4. Thus the pressure temperature at all stages is obtained.
5. The work done by the compressor, turbine , is obtained from the above formulae
6. The heat spplied is also calculated from the 6th relation
7. the efficiency of the total system can be calculated from the last formula.
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