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Reheat and Regenerative Rankine Cycle: Presented by M.Suriyaprakash AP/Mech

The document discusses reheat and regenerative Rankine cycles, where in a reheat cycle steam is reheated after the high pressure turbine before entering the low pressure turbine to remove moisture, and in a regenerative cycle heat is transferred from steam to feedwater in a regenerator or feedwater heater to increase efficiency. It provides details on the processes and thermal efficiency calculations for these cycles and includes two example problems to calculate quality, efficiency, and steam rate.

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Reheat and Regenerative Rankine Cycle: Presented by M.Suriyaprakash AP/Mech

The document discusses reheat and regenerative Rankine cycles, where in a reheat cycle steam is reheated after the high pressure turbine before entering the low pressure turbine to remove moisture, and in a regenerative cycle heat is transferred from steam to feedwater in a regenerator or feedwater heater to increase efficiency. It provides details on the processes and thermal efficiency calculations for these cycles and includes two example problems to calculate quality, efficiency, and steam rate.

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Reheat and Regenerative

Rankine cycle

Presented by
M.Suriyaprakash AP/Mech
Reheat Rankine cycle

• In basic Rankine cycle, after the isentropic development in turbine,


steam is specifically feed into condenser for condensation process. It
is then left to extend in low pressure turbine to accomplish
condenser pressure.
• The purpose of a reheating cycle is to remove the moisture carried by
the steam at the final stages of the expansion process. In this
variation, two turbines work in series. The first accepts vapour from
the boiler at high pressure.
Processes
1-2 pump (workdone)
2-3 boiler( heat supplied)
3-4 high pressure turbine (workdone)
4-5 Reheater( heat supplied)
5-6 low pressure turbine (workdone)
6-1 condenser (heat rejection)
Total energy added in the boiler (Qs) =(h3-h2)+(h5-h4)
Energy rejected in the condenser(Qr) =h6-h1
Total Work done by the turbine (Wt) =(h3-h4)+(h5-h6)
Work done by the pump (Wp) =h2-h1

Net work (W)=Wt-Wp

Thermal efficiency = Net work/ heat supplied


= (h3-h4)+(h5-h6)-(h2-h1)
(h3-h2)+(h5-h4)
Regenerative Rankine cycle

• This process is called regeneration and the heat exchanger where


heat is transferred from steam to feedwater is called a regenerator,
or a feedwater heater.
• In an ideal Regenerative Rankine cycle with an open feedwater
heater, steam from the boiler expands in the turbine to an
intermediate pressure.
• The average temperature at which energy addition takes place can
also be increased by preheating the feed water before it enters the
boiler.
• Heat supplied in the boiler(Qs) =(h5-h4)
• Energy rejected in the condenser(Qr)=(h7-h1)
• Work done by pump(Wp) =(h2-h1)+(h4-h3)
• Work done by Turbine (Wt)=(h5-h6)

• Thermal efficiency = Net work/ heat supplied


Tutorial problem 1

• A steam power plant operates on a theoretical


reheat cycle steam at boiler at 150bar, 550oC
expands through the high pressure turbine. It is
reheated at a constant pressure of 40bar to 550oC
and expands through the low pressure turbine to a
condenser at 0.1bar.
Determine
1. quality of steam at turbine
2. cycle efficiency.
3. steam rate.
Tutorial problem 2

• In a regenerative cycle, the steam pressure at


turbine inlet is 30bar and the exhaust is at 0.04bar.
The steam is initially saturated. Enough steam is
bled off at the optimum pressure of 3bar to heat
the feed water. Determine the cycle efficiency.

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