This document contains 5 assignment questions related to steam and power generation cycles. Question 1 involves calculating parameters like heat added/rejected and work done for a sodium-mercury-steam cycle. Question 2 asks to find the boiler capacity required for a 10 MW steam turbine operating between 40 and 0.1 bar. Question 3 involves efficiency calculations for a binary cycle plant using mercury and steam. Question 4 requires determining the steam generation capacity, heat input and rejection for a 5.6 MW cogeneration plant. Question 5 asks to estimate steam flows through high and low pressure stages of a pass-out turbine supplying process steam. The deadline for submitting these assignments is May 15, 2020.
This document contains 5 assignment questions related to steam and power generation cycles. Question 1 involves calculating parameters like heat added/rejected and work done for a sodium-mercury-steam cycle. Question 2 asks to find the boiler capacity required for a 10 MW steam turbine operating between 40 and 0.1 bar. Question 3 involves efficiency calculations for a binary cycle plant using mercury and steam. Question 4 requires determining the steam generation capacity, heat input and rejection for a 5.6 MW cogeneration plant. Question 5 asks to estimate steam flows through high and low pressure stages of a pass-out turbine supplying process steam. The deadline for submitting these assignments is May 15, 2020.
This document contains 5 assignment questions related to steam and power generation cycles. Question 1 involves calculating parameters like heat added/rejected and work done for a sodium-mercury-steam cycle. Question 2 asks to find the boiler capacity required for a 10 MW steam turbine operating between 40 and 0.1 bar. Question 3 involves efficiency calculations for a binary cycle plant using mercury and steam. Question 4 requires determining the steam generation capacity, heat input and rejection for a 5.6 MW cogeneration plant. Question 5 asks to estimate steam flows through high and low pressure stages of a pass-out turbine supplying process steam. The deadline for submitting these assignments is May 15, 2020.
This document contains 5 assignment questions related to steam and power generation cycles. Question 1 involves calculating parameters like heat added/rejected and work done for a sodium-mercury-steam cycle. Question 2 asks to find the boiler capacity required for a 10 MW steam turbine operating between 40 and 0.1 bar. Question 3 involves efficiency calculations for a binary cycle plant using mercury and steam. Question 4 requires determining the steam generation capacity, heat input and rejection for a 5.6 MW cogeneration plant. Question 5 asks to estimate steam flows through high and low pressure stages of a pass-out turbine supplying process steam. The deadline for submitting these assignments is May 15, 2020.
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Last date of submission: 15 May, 2020
1. A sodium-mercury-steam cycle operates between l000°C and 40°C. Sodium rejects heat at 670°C to mercury. Mercury boils at 24.6 bar and rejects heat at 0.141 bar. Both the sodium and mercury cycles are saturated. Steam is formed at 30 bar and is superheated in the sodium boiler to 350°C. It rejects heat at 0.0 8 bar. Assume isentropic expansions, no heat losses, and no generation and neglect pumping work. Find (a) the amounts of sodium and mercury used per kg of steam, (b) the heat added and rejected in the composite cycle per kg steam, (c) the total work done per kg steam. (d) the efficiency of the composite cycle, (e) the efficiency of the corresponding Carnot cycle, and (f) the work, heat added, and efficiency of a supercritical pressure steam (single fluid) cycle operating at 250 bar and between the same temperature limits. For mercury, at 24.6 bar, g h = 366.78 kJ/kg.
2. A 10,000 kW steam turbine operates with steam at the inlet at 40 bar, 400°C and exhausts at 0.1 bar. Ten thousand kg/h of steam at 3 bar are to be extracted for process work. The turbine has 75% isentropic efficiency throughout. Find the boiler capacity required.
3. In an electric generating station, using a binary vapour cycle with mercury in the upper cycle and steam in the lower, the ratio of mercury flow to steam flow is 10:1 on a mass basis. At an evaporation rate of 1,000,000 kg/h for the mercury, its specific enthalpy rises by 356 kJ/kg in passing through the boiler. Superheating the steam in the boiler furnace adds 586 kJ to the steam specific enthalpy. The mercury gives up 251.2 kJ/kg during condensation, and the steam gives up 2003 kJ/kg in its condenser. The overall boiler efficiency is 85%. The combined turbine metrical and generator efficiencies are each 95% for the mercury and steam units. The steam auxiliaries require 5% of the energy generated by the units. Find the overall efficiency of the plant.
4. In a cogeneration plant, the power load is 5.6 MW and the heating load is 1.163 MW. Steam is generated at 40 bar and 500°C and is expanded isentropically through a turbine to a condenser at 0.06 bar. The heating load is supplied by extracting steam from the turbine at 2 bar which is condensed in the process heater to saturated liquid at 2 bar and then pumped back to the boiler. Compute (a) the steam generation capacity of the boiler in tonnes/h, (b) the heat input to the boiler in MW, and (c) the heat rejected to the condenser in MW.
5. Steam is supplied to a pass-out turbine at 35 bar, 350°C and dry saturated process steam is required at 3.5 bar. The low pressure stage exhausts at 0.07 bar and the condition line may be assumed to be straight (the condition line is the locus passing through the states of steam leaving the various stages of the turbine). If the power required is 1 MW and the maximum process load is 1.4 kW, estimate the maximum steam flow through the high and low pressure stages. Assume that the steam just condenses in the process plant.
