An ideal gas turbine cycle with many stages of compression and expansion and a regenerator of 100

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An ideal gas turbine cycle with many stages of compression and expansion and a regenerator of 100 percent effectiveness has an overall pressure ratio of 10. Air enters every stage of compressor at 290 K, and every stage of turbine at 1200 K. The thermal efficiency of this gas-turbine cycle is
(a) 36 percent
(b) 40 percent
(c) 52 percent
(d) 64 percent
(e) 76 percent
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Thermodynamics An Engineering Approach

ISBN: 978-0073398174

8th edition

Authors: Yunus A. Cengel, Michael A. Boles

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