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10-104 A steam power plant operating on the ideal reheat-regenerative Rankine cycle with three feedwater heaters is
considered. Various items for this system per unit of mass flow rate through the boiler are to be determined.
Assumptions 1 Steady operating conditions exist. 2 Kinetic and potential energy changes are negligible.

High-P Low-P
Turbine Turbine
13

Boiler 16
z 19 n
y 17
14 x
15
12 m Condenser
18
Closed Closed Open
FWH I FWH II FWH
8 P II PI

11 7 4 1
10 9 5 3 2
6

P IV P III

Analysis The compression processes in the pumps and the expansion processes in the turbines are isentropic. Also, the state
of water at the inlet of pumps is saturated liquid. Then, from the steam tables (Tables A-4, A-5, and A-6),
h1 168.75 kJ/kg h13 3423.1 kJ/kg
h2 168.84 kJ/kg h14 3204.5 kJ/kg
h3 417.51 kJ/kg
h15 3063.6 kJ/kg
h4 419.28 kJ/kg
h16 2871.0 kJ/kg
h5 884.46 kJ/kg
h17 3481.3 kJ/kg
h6 885.86 kJ/kg
h9 1008.3 kJ/kg h18 2891.5 kJ/kg
h10 1011.8 kJ/kg h19 2454.7 kJ/kg

For an ideal closed feedwater heater, the feedwater is heated to the exit temperature of the extracted steam, which ideally
leaves the heater as a saturated liquid at the extraction pressure. Then,
P7 1800 kPa
h7 884.91 kJ/kg
T7 T5 207.1C
P11 3000 kPa
h 1008.8 kJ/kg
T11 T9 233.9C 11

Enthalpies at other states and the fractions of steam extracted from the turbines can be determined from mass and energy
balances on cycle components as follows:
Mass Balances:
x y z 1
mn z
Open feedwater heater:
mh18 nh2 zh3

Closed feedwater heater-II:


zh4 yh15 zh7 yh5

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Closed feedwater heater-I:
( y z )h8 xh14 ( y z )h11 xh9

Mixing chamber after closed feedwater heater II:


zh7 yh6 ( y z )h8

Mixing chamber after closed feedwater heater I:


xh10 ( y z )h11 1h12

Substituting the values and solving the above equations simultaneously using EES, we obtain
h8 885.08 kJ/kg
h12 1009.0 kJ/kg
x 0.05334
y 0.1667
z 0.78000
m 0.07124
n 0.70882
Note that these values may also be obtained by a hand solution by using the equations above with some rearrangements and
substitutions. Other results of the cycle are
wT,out,HP x(h13 h14 ) y (h13 h15 ) z (h13 h16 ) 502.3 kJ/kg
wT,out,LP m(h17 h18 ) n(h17 h19 ) 769.6 kJ/kg
q in h13 h12 z (h17 h16 ) 2890 kJ/kg
q out n(h19 h1 ) 1620 kJ/kg
q out 1620
th 1 1 0.4394 43.9%
q in 2890

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