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Midterm Exam Me 322a

This document contains a midterm exam for a combustion engineering course. It consists of 4 multi-part questions regarding gas turbine power plants and Brayton cycles. The questions calculate various thermodynamic properties such as net work, thermal efficiency, temperatures, pressures, heat added and transferred, mass flow rates, and power output.

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Midterm Exam Me 322a

This document contains a midterm exam for a combustion engineering course. It consists of 4 multi-part questions regarding gas turbine power plants and Brayton cycles. The questions calculate various thermodynamic properties such as net work, thermal efficiency, temperatures, pressures, heat added and transferred, mass flow rates, and power output.

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MIDTERM EXAM COMBUSTION ENGINEERING DATE _____________

NAME ____________________

PLEASE ANSWER THOROUGHLY AND COMPLETELY WITHOUT COPYING YOUR CLASSMATE’S WORK.

1. Air enters the compressor of a gas turbine power plant, at 290 K, 0.1 MPa. The ratio of the maximum to
minimum pressure in the cycle is 4.0 and the maximum cycle temperature is 1200 K. Compressor and turbine
isentropic efficiencies are 0.85. The compression process occurs in two stages, each having a pressure ratio of 2
with intercooling to 300 K in between. A 75% effective regenerator reduces fuel costs.

a. Determine the net work transfer ( kJ/kg)


b. Determine the thermal efficiency.

2. A stationary gas-turbine power plant operates on an ideal regenerative Brayton cycle (assume 100%
regeneration) with air as the working fluid. Air enters the compressor at 95 kPa and 290 K and the turbine at 760
kPa and 1100 K. Heat is transferred to air from an external source at a rate of 75,000 kJ/s. Determine the power
delivered by this plant (a) assuming constant specific heats for air at room temperature and (b) accounting for
the variation of specific heats with temperature.

3. In a helium gas turbine closed cycle, the high pressure stage receives gas (point 3) from a heat exchanger (P3
and T3 are 6.7 MPa and 1190, K respectively), and the isentropic turbine efficiency is 91% and exhausts it to
another heat exchanger where the outlet pressure is P4: (P4 = 2.78 MPa). The compressor pressure ratio is equal
to 2.41. The compressor receives gas (point 1): (P1 = 2.78 MPa; T1 = 299K), and the isentropic efficiency of the
compressor is 87%. The heat capacity ratio,, for helium is equal to cp/cv=1.66.

Calculate:

a) The heat added, QA


b) The compressor outlet temperature of the gas, T2
c) The real work done on the compressor, Wc
d) The real work done by the turbine, Wt’
e) The turbine outlet temperature of the gas, T4
f) The thermal efficiency of this cycle (ideal and actual).

4. Consider a regenerative gas turbine power plant with two stages of compression and two stages of expansion.
The overall pressure ratio of the cycle is 9. The air enters each stage of the compressor at 300K and each stage
of the turbine at 1400 K. Accounting for the variation of the specific heats with temperature, determine the
minimum mass flow rate of air needed to develop a net power output of 110 MW.

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