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In early steam engines: heating is used to evaporate and cooling

to condense water inside piston – cylinder steam engines

TH

TC
Ideal:
internally
reversible

For internally reversible process: the area under the curve on a T-S diagram

represents the heat transfer during the process.


QH-QL

(for
)
Example :
Note: in the compressed liquid region, steam is
liquid and therefore is incompressible, i.e. =cons.

Steady flow and isentropic work


(not boundary work) &
Note: the values of (h) may differ from one
book to another depending on the reference
state. However, h must be the same.

500C
= h2 – h 1

and h4’ = (hf + x hfg)4’ = 2292.7 kJ/kg


T
Steam generator = boiler + super heater ... without reheater

4
T=500C
without
reheating

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