Consider a power plant that operates on a simple ideal Rankine cycle with refrigerant- 134a (a pure substance) as the working fluid; not water! The refrigerant enters the turbine as a saturated vapour at 1.4 MPa and leaves at 0.7 MPa. The mass flow rate of the refrig- erant is 3 kg/s. [Hint: Use Property Tables for R-134a.] (a) Draw this simple ideal Rankine cycle on T-s diagrams. Determine: (b) the thermal efficiency of the cycle and (c) the power output of this plant.

Consider a power plant that operates on a simple ideal Rankine cycle with refrigerant- 134a (a pure substance) as the working fluid; not water! The refrigerant enters the turbine as a saturated vapour at 1.4 MPa and leaves at 0.7 MPa. The mass flow rate of the refrig- erant is 3 kg/s. [Hint: Use Property Tables for R-134a.] (a) Draw this simple ideal Rankine cycle on T-s diagrams. Determine: (b) the thermal efficiency of the cycle and (c) the power output of this plant.

Elements Of Electromagnetics

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