The boiler of a Rankine power cycle absorbs 1000 kW of heat from a furnace at 700

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The boiler of a Rankine power cycle absorbs 1000 kW of heat from a furnace at 700 °C. The power plant rejects 850 kW of heat in a river at 25 °C.

a) What is the efficiency of the cycle? 

b) What is the rate of entropy generation? 

c) What is the maximum possible power that could be produced by a plant given the temperatures of the furnace and the river?  

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