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The Ideal Reheat Rankine Cycle
• How can we take advantage of the increased efficiency at
higher boiler without having moisture?
1. Superheat the steam
2. Expand the steam in the turbine in two stages, and reheat it
in between (reheat)
EXAMPLE 10-4 The Ideal Reheat Rankine Cycle
Consider a steam power plant operating on the ideal reheat Rankine
cycle. Steam enters the high-pressure turbine at 15 MPa and 600°C
and is condensed in the condenser at a pressure of 10 kPa.
If the moisture content of the steam at the exit of the low-pressure
turbine is not to exceed 10.4 percent, determine
(a) the pressure at which the steam should be reheated
(b) the thermal efficiency of the cycle. Assume the steam is reheated
to the inlet temperature of the high-pressure turbine.
(a) The reheat pressure is determined from the requirement that the
entropies at states 5 and 6 be the same:
m 6
where y is the fraction of steam extracted from the turbine m 1
Class Exercise 3:
Regenerative Rankine Cycle
A steam power plant operates on an ideal regenerative Rankine
cycle. The steam enters the high-pressure turbine at 6 MPa and
450oC Steam is extracted from the turbine at 0.4 Mpa to heat the
feedwater in an open feedwater heater. The steam leaves the
feedwater heater as saturated liquid, while the condenser as saturated
liquid at a pressure of 20 kPa.
a. Show the cycle on a T-s diagram and label all the processes.
b. Determine the net work output.
c. Calculate the thermal efficiency of the cycle.
1017 kJ/kg, 37.8%
Class Exercise 2:
Vapour Power Cycle with Reheat
A steam power plant operates on an ideal reheat Rankine cycle and
has a net power output of 5 MW. The steam enters the high-pressure
turbine at 4 MPa and 300oC and the low-pressure turbine at 1.0 MPa
and 300oC. The steam leaves the condenser as saturated liquid at a
pressure of 80 kPa.
a. Show the cycle on a T-s diagram and label all the processes.
b. Determine the specific work consumed by the pump.
c. Calculate the total specific heat added in the cycle.
d. Find the heat removed by the condenser.
e. Determine the mass flow rate of the steam.
f. Calculate the thermal efficiency of the cycle.