Question: Consider a two - stage steam power cycle. The high - temperature cycle ( topping cycle ) is a standard Brayton cycle. Air enters the

Consider a two-stage steam power cycle. The high-temperature cycle (topping cycle) is a standard Brayton cycle. Air enters the compressor at 100 kPa and 300 K and is compressed to a pressure ratio of 8 before entering the turbine at 1300 K. The isentropic efficiency of the compressor is 80%, and the isentropic efficiency of the gas turbine is 85%.
The low-temperature cycle (bottoming cycle) is an ideal Rankine cycle. Steam enters the turbine at 7 MPa and exits at 5 kPa as a mixture of vapor and liquid. Finally, water enters the pump as a saturated liquid at 5 kPa. The steam is reheated to 500C using exhaust gas in the heat exchanger and exits the heat exchanger at 450 K.
Answer the following:
(a) Draw a schematic diagram. (15 points)
(b) Draw a T-s diagram. (15 points)
(c) Calculate the mass flow rate ratio (mv/mgm_v / m_gmv/mg) between the steam and exhaust gas. (15 points)
(d) Evaluate the thermal efficiency of the combined cycle based on the mass flow rate ratio. (10 points)

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