A device is being marketed to your company. The device takes in hot, high-pressure water and generates work by converting it to two outlet streams: steam and low-pressure water. You are asked to evaluate the device to see if your firm should buy it. All you are told is that 10 kW of work is obtained under the following operating conditions: 

a. What is the quality of the steam in outlet stream 1? 

b. Is this device thermodynamically feasible?

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Outlet Stream 1 Outlet Stream 2 Inlet Mass flow rate (kg/s) 1.0 T (°C) 300 5.0 P (MPa) Steam Liquid Quality unknown Sat.liquid 100 Solutioning 0.5 300