2. A combustion turbine has a reheater and two expansion turbines. There is a reheater between...
Problem 1 (Marks 3) Smithfield power station in NSW, Australia operates on 4 gas turbines. Each of the gas turbine unit operates on the regenerative Brayton Cycle between the pressure limits of 100 kPa and 700 kPa. Air enters the compressor at 30°C at a rate of 12.6 kg/s and leaves at 260°C. It is then heated in a regenerator to 400°C by hot combustion gases leaving the turbine. Diesel fuel with heating value of 42,000 kJ/kg is burned in...
1. A combined gas-steam power cycle uses a single gas turbine
cycle for the air cycle and a simple Rankine cycle for the water
vapor cycle. Atmospheric air enters the compressor at a rate of
88.2 lbm / s, at 14.7 psia and 59 ° F, and the maximum gas cycle
temperature is 1,742 ° F. The pressure ratio in the compressor is
7. The isentropic efficiency of both the compressor and the turbine
is 80%. Gas exits the heat...
4. A regenerative two-stage gas turbine with reheat operating on
the standard-air Brayton cycle is illustrated in Figure 3. In an
ideal Brayton cycle, the processes in the turbines and compressor
are adiabatic and isentropic, and the air flows through the
combustor and heat exchangers at constant pressure.
a) Show that the maximum total work output is
developed when the pressure ratio is the same across each stage, if
the temperature at the inlet to each turbine stage is the...
Combined cycle power plants are common because of their high efficiency and scalability. They typically combine a gas turbine cycle (the Brayton Cycle) with a steam turbine cycle (the Rankine Cycle) [1]. The goal of this project is to determine the operating efficiency and profitability of a realistic combined cycle power plant. The power plant is as follows: 1. A natural gas-fired Brayton cycle with mÛ air,Br = 1.25 kg s−1 . (a) Ambient air at 1 bar and 300...
3a. A gas-turbine power plant operates on the simple Brayton cycle between the pressure limits of 14.7 and 200 psia. Air enters the compressor at 77°F at a rate of 28 lbm/s and leaves at 750°F. Fuel is burned in the combustion chamber and the combustion gases enter the turbine at 2000°F. Combustion gases leave the turbine whose isentropic efficiency is 85 percent. Treating the combustion gases as air and using constant specific heats evaluated at 900°F, determine (a) the...
Problem 1 (15 pts) A gas turbine cycle operates with a compressor pressure ratio of 12 and a mass flow rate of 5.0 kg/s. Air enters the compressor at 1 bar, 290 K. The maximum cycle temperature is 1600 K. For the compressor, the isentropic efficiency is 85%, and for the turbine the isentropic efficiency is 90%. Using an air-standard analysis with air as ideal gas with constant specific heats, calculate: a) the volumetric flow rate of air entering the...
II. In a gas turbine installation, shown in the Regenerator Fuel opposite figure, air is supplied at Pi of 1 bar and temperature Ti of 27 C intoa compressor which has a pressure ration t of 8. The air leaving the combustion chamber is heated up to a temperature T4 of 827 °C and expanded in a turbine up to a pressure Ps of 1 bar. A regenerator with an effectiveness ε of80 % is fitted at the turbine exit...
Problem 2/2 (50%) -The gas-turbine cycle of a combined gas-steam power plant has a pressure ratio of 12. Air enters the compressor at 310 K and the turbine at 1400 K. The combustion gases leaving the gas turbine are used to heat the steam at 12.5 MPa to 500 C in a heat exchanger. The combustion gases leave the heat exchanger at 247"C. Steam expands in a high pressure turbine to a pressure of 2.5 MPa and is reheated in...
Problem4 (a) (40 points) A combined gas-steam powe cycles. The ideal Brayton and Rankine plant operates on Rankine cycle has a reheater. The Brayton cycle operates on a gas- of the gas-turbine cycle 1400 K The 15MPa to ercooling, reheating, and regeneration cycle. The pressure ratio 300 K for compressor stages is do Air enters compressors a combustion gases leaving the lower pressure gas turbine are used to heat the steam at C in a heat exchanger. The combustion gases...
Air enters the compressor of a cold air-standard Brayton cycle with regeneration at 100 kPa, 300 K, with a volume flow rate of 5 m3/s. The compressor pressure ratio is 8, and the turbine inlet temperature is 1400 K. The turbine and compressor each have isentropic efficiencies of 80% and the regenerator effectiveness is 80%. For the air, k = 1.4 and the ambient temperature is T0 = 300 K. -Determine the thermal efficiency of the cycle. -determine the back...