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The document outlines an assignment for Power Plant Engineering at Addis Ababa University, detailing four problems related to steam power plants, combustion processes, and flue gas analysis. Each problem requires calculations involving thermodynamic cycles, combustion equations, and gas compositions. Students are tasked with determining various parameters such as temperatures, mass flow rates, net power output, thermal efficiency, and gas compositions.

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The document outlines an assignment for Power Plant Engineering at Addis Ababa University, detailing four problems related to steam power plants, combustion processes, and flue gas analysis. Each problem requires calculations involving thermodynamic cycles, combustion equations, and gas compositions. Students are tasked with determining various parameters such as temperatures, mass flow rates, net power output, thermal efficiency, and gas compositions.

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ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY

ADDIS ABABA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY


SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL AND INDUSTRIAL
ENGINEERING
POWER PLANT ENGINEERING Assignment _1

Date: 01/05/25

1. A steam power plant operates on the reheat-regenerative Rankine cycle with


a closed feedwater heater. Steam enters the turbine at 12.5 MPa and 550°C
at a rate of 24 kg/s and is condensed in the condenser at a pressure of 20
kPa. Steam is reheated at 5 MPa to 550°C. Some steam is extracted from the
low-pressure turbine at 1.0 MPa, is completely condensed in the closed
feedwater heater, and pumped to 12.5 MPa before it mixes with the
feedwater at the same pressure. Assuming an isentropic efficiency of 88
percent for both the turbine and the pump, determine (a) the temperature of
the steam at the inlet of the closed feedwater heater, (b) the mass flow rate of
the steam extracted from the turbine for the closed feedwater heater, (c) the
net power output, and (d) the thermal efficiency and (e) draw the schematic
diagram of the cycle with its T-S diagram.
2. A certain natural gas has the following volumetric analysis: 72 percent CH4,
9 percent H2, 14 percent N2, 2 percent O2, and 3 percent CO2. This gas is
now burned with the stoichiometric amount of air that enters the combustion
chamber at 20°C, 1 atm, and 80 percent relative humidity. Assuming
complete combustion and a total pressure of 1 atm, determine the dew-point
temperature of the products, the mass of water vapor formed, air fuel ratio,
the mass of air supplied, the mass of dry flue gases formed.

3. A closed combustion chamber is designed so that it maintains a constant


pressure of 300 kPa during a combustion process. The combustion chamber
has an initial volume of 0.5 m3 and contains a stoichiometric mixture of
octane (C8H18) gas and air at 25°C. The mixture is now ignited, and the
product gases are observed to be at 1000 K at the end of the combustion
process. Assuming complete combustion, and treating both the reactants and
the products as ideal gases, Determine the heat transfer from the combustion
chamber during this process.

4. During a boiler trial a partial analysis of dry flue gas showed 13.2%CO2 and
3.2% O2 by volume. Some CO was probably present but its percentage was
not measured. The analysis of the coal burnt was 88% carbon, 4.4%
hydrogen and 7.6% ash. The moisture in the fuel was nil. Assuming that all
the carbon and hydrogen have been burnt, estimate
a) Write the actual and the theoretical balanced equation,
b) The complete volumetric composition of the dry flue gas,
c) The actual amount of air supplied per kg of fuel,
d) The percentage excess air supplied,
e) Dew point temperature of the flue gas and
f) The mass of water vapor formed per kg of fuel.

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