DEPERTMENT OF MARINE ENGINEERING
FACULTY OF OCEAN TECHNOLOGY
INSTITUT TEKNOLOGI SEPULUH NOPEMBER
ME091307 (THERMODYNAMICS)
Unit 4 Exercise – Gas Vapour and
Combined Power Cycle
Aguk Zuhdi MF
A stationary gas-turbine power plant operates on a simple ideal Brayton cycle
with air as the working fluid. The air enters the compressor at 95 kPa and 290 K
and the turbine at 760 kPa and 1100 K. Heat is transferred to air at a rate of
35,000 kW. Determine the power delivered by this plant
a) Assuming constant specific heats at room temperature
b) Accounting for the variation of specific heats with
temperature
Assumptions :
1 steady operating condition exists.
2 The air-standard assumptions are applicable.
3 Kinetic and potential energy changes are negligible.
4 Air is an ideal gas.
Analysis (a) Assuming constant specific heats,
(b) Assuming variable specific heats (Table A-17),
A steam power plant operates on a simple ideal Rankine cycle between the
specified pressure limits of 9 MPa and 15 kPa. The mass flow rate of steam
through the cycle is 35 kg/s. The moisture content of the steam at the
turbine exit is not to exceed 10 %. Show the cycle on a T-s diagram with
respect to saturation lines, and determine:
(a) The minimum turbine inlet temperature
(b) the rate of heat input in the boiler
(c) The thermal efficiency of the cycle
Assumptions:
1 Steady operating condition exists.
2 Kinetic and potential energy changes are negligible.
Analysis (a) From the steam tables (Tables A-4, A-5, and A-6)
Consider an ideal steam regenerative Rankine cycle with two
feedwater heaters, one closed and one open. Steam enters the
turbine at 12.5 MPa and 550oC and exhaust to the condenser at 10
kPa. Steam is extracted from the turbine at 0.8 MPa from closed
feedwater heater and at 0.3 MPa for the open one. The feedwater is
heated to the condensation temperature of the extracted steam
leaves the closed feedwater heater. The extracted steam leaves the
closed feedwater heater as a saturated liquid which is subsequently
throttled to the open feedwater heater. Show the cycle on a T-s
diagram with respect to saturation lines, and determine:
a) The mass flow rate of steam through the boiler for a net power output
of 250MW,
b) the thermal efficiency of the cycle.
Assumptions:
1 Steady operating conditions exist.
2 Kinetic and potential energy changes are negligible.
Analysis (a) From the steam tables (Tables A-4, A-5, and A-6)
The fraction of steam extracted is determined from the steady-flow energy
balance equation
applied to the feedwater heaters.
.
.
Noting that

 KE  PE  0
Q
W
where y is the fraction of steam extracted from the turbine
 

 m10 



m
5

Solving for y:
For the open FWH,
where z is the fraction of steam extracted from the turbine
at the second stage. Solving for z,
 

 m9




 m5 
(b)
Consider a combined gas-steam power plant that has a net power output of
450 MW. The pressure ratio of the gas–turbine cycle is 14. Air enters the
compressor at 300 K and the turbine at 1400 K. The combustion gases
leaving the gas turbine are used to heat the steam at 8 MPa to 400oC in a
heat exchanger. The combustion gases leave the heat exchanger at 460 K.
An open feedwater heaters incorporated with the steam cycle operates at a
pressure of 0.6 MPa. The condenser pressure 20 kPa. Assuming all the
compression and expansion processes to be isentropic, and determine:
a) The mass flow rate ratio of air to steam
b) The required rate of heat input in the combustion chamber
c) the thermal efficiency of the combined cycle
Assumptions :
1 Steady operating conditions exist.
2 Kinetic and potential energy changes are negligible.
3 Air is an ideal gas with variable specific heats.
Analysis (a) The analysis of gas cycle yields (Table A-17)
From the steam tables (Tables A-4, A-5, A-6)


Noting that Q  W
 KE  PE  0
for the heat exchanger, the steady-flow
energy balance equation yields


Noting that Q  W  KE  PE  0 for the open FWH, the steady-flow energy
balance equation yields
The net work output per unit mass of gas is
c)